Supermarkets have never been so scary.
“It’s the first of the women’s-lib kind of movies,” Prentiss says.
“It isn’t pounding you on the head.
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It’s doing it through horror and comedy, and that’s a good genre.”
“It made it so it lulled you along until it finally terrified you.”
Forbes came up with the signature Stepford style: ThinkMarilyn Monroemeets June Cleaver.
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“Little did I know that I was in for it,” Prentiss says with a laugh.
Coffee, tea, or me?
“It was very hard for me to stab, even something that wasn’t real.
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So that’s his hand on the knife that you see going in.”
“With my eyes tearing, I don’t think it was possible for them to not look shiny.
But it was still kind of spooky, wasn’t it?”
In the end, Joanna’s smiling double advances and strangles the real Joanna with a stocking.
“I sort of end up giving up.
I don’t fight at the very end, and I think I would fight harder.”
“She was very upset about our movie,” Tina Louise says.
Neither did Forbes or the rest of the cast.
“Bryan always used to say, ‘If anything, it’s anti-men!'”
I thought the men were ridiculous to want to make women into servile creatures."
The film’s feminist message has also survived.
“[It’s about] negating your agency as a woman.”
“It was interesting to lull people into this sense of security,” Newman says.
“And then the normality becomes very weird, and then the weird becomes scary.”
