Creepy AI: the robotic wives of idyllic Stepford
The idea of totally compliant, immaculately preened, sexually submissive and slavishly obedient wives sounds like the dream of men since time immemorial. But when Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) moves into the idyllic Connecticut suburban community of Stepford, she sees something wrong from the get-go.
The Stepford wives are just altogether too perfect, almost like they're not even human. When a mob of apron-wearing, cookie-baking moms all start to converge on Joanna when she learns the truth, intent on silencing her, their fixed grins and manic eyes are scarier than the blood splattered visage of any zombie.
