I can't help but notice the subtlety of the original movie is completely lost in this sequel. What gave the original all the good scares and chills was the events creeped up on you slowly by surprise. In the Revenge movie, Arthur Hill has an exact plan every few minutes on how to eliminate anyone who wants to escape from Stepford or disrupt the rigid control of the Men's Association. For example, the warm up shows a man and his wife want to move to California. Bam! They make his station wagon crash in five minutes. Sharon Gless plays a reporter doing a story on the nation's most perfect community. But the fact something is wrong just hits her in the face from the very start..Any idiot would leave town in ten minutes to alert the world. The air of mystery has been completely eliminated.
Review of Revenge of the Stepford Wives
Revenge of the Stepford Wives
(1980 TV Movie)
No suspense or surprises
3 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers