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50 Years Ago, One Shocking Sci-Fi Film Quietly Changed Two Genres At Once

The 'Stepford Wives' is just as relevant today as it was in 1975. Maybe even more so.

Inverse

The Stepford Wives at 50: a compelling idea in search of a better movie

The 1975 adaptation of Ira Levin’s influential sci-fi thriller has its share of unnerving moments but its brainwashed housewives concept is still in search of a better vehicle

The Guardian - US

From Alice to Zelig via Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow’s 20 best films – ranked!

As the Hollywood royal turns 80, we remember her greatest film roles that include an acting masterclass in Full Circle and a heartbreaking turn in The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Guardian - UK

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13 of the biggest Broadway flops in history, from Elton John’s Tammy Faye to Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

THE LIST: As Elton John’s musical ‘Tammy Faye’ announces it is to close just days after opening, Kevin E G Perry looks back at some of the biggest Broadway productions that failed to break even

The Independent UK

We put a spell on you: from Maleficent to Grotbags – the screen's greatest witches

As Wicked hits cinemas it’s time to look at the most evil witches of all time... and a few nice ones too

Evening Standard

'I was obsessed with Rosemary’s Baby': Apartment 7A screenwriter on how the Paramount Plus horror movie avoided the curse of the movie sequel

TechRadar speaks to Apartment 7A screenwriter about making the prequel to Rosemary's Baby.

TechRadar

Apartment 7A review – Rosemary’s Baby prequel is a vacant rehash

Strong performances from Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest can’t add enough weight to a pointless horror that fills in gaps we didn’t need filling in

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Julia Garner Stars In Paramount+'S Apartment 7A Psychological Horror Film

Julia Garner stars in Apartment 7A, a chilling prequel to Rosemary's Baby, set in a luxurious New York City apartment building. Directed by Natalie Erika J...

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20 Years Ago, an Iconic Sci-Fi Thriller Got a Confounding Remake That Was Ahead of its Time

In 1975, a contentious sci-fi thriller divided fans and critics before slowly earning a reputation as a cult classic. Decades later, can its much maligned remake pull off the same trick?

Inverse

AI at Questacon, Rosemary's Baby, and more this weekend

A drag cabaret and an exhibition of AI art are also on.

The Canberra Times

Apartment 7A: release date, cast, plot, trailer, first looks and everything about the Rosemary's Baby prequel

Apartment 7A on Paramount Plus is a prequel to classic horror movie Rosemary's Baby which stars Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally and Jim Sturgess.

WhatToWatch

It's a wild ride to get to the bottom of what everyone's hiding in 'A Better World'

A very sinister thriller with a dash of science-fiction and full of inscrutabilities, Sarah Langan's novel is as entreating and creepy as it is timely and humane.

WEKU

The most DC story ever? Maybe it’s ‘The Exorcist’ - Roll Call

Most prominent Washington tales are political, but homegrown horror “The Exorcist” has been creeping people out for more than 50 years.

Roll Call

Foe review: a Frankenstein tale of the not-so-distant future

Science fiction is never really about the future. The best sci-fi makes use of an imagined future world to provide a critical distance from our current time; to ask questions about what we are doing rather than where we are going.

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The Wicker Man review – brilliant conspiracy chiller is a one-movie genre in itself

The satirical masterpiece goes well beyond what one expects from folk horror, with Edward Woodward as the priggish cop sent to investigate a pagan island

The Guardian - UK

We Spread by Iain Reid review – a fine piece of weird fiction

A widow finds herself in a sinister care home, in this meditation on ageing, trauma and identity from the author behind I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Inverse

You need to watch the strangest sci-fi movie on HBO Max ASAP

The biggest misfire of Frank Oz’s career is still better than most other movies. Here's why you should watch 'The Stepford Wives' while you still can.

Salon

Why "Stepford Wives" still resonates

Sure, suburban living turned women into robots, but this telling also reveals the complicity of husbands

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'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the vast majority of domestic work.

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Why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on.

The Guardian - UK

Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick review

This brilliant exploration of psychological manipulation takes in both Mao’s China and the American dream

The Guardian - UK

Brainwashed by Daniel Pick review – do great minds really think alike?

From The Simpsons to QAnon via The Stepford Wives, the psychoanalyst’s absorbing study of mind control is part media studies, part political history

The Conversation

Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

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