When you want the best, most often you want the original. So, my recommendation is to see director Bryan Forbes version whether you've seen the remake or not. This is the one that will surely leave a shivering feeling over your body, like leeches attaching themselves to your skin toward the end.

Joanna Eberhart (the beautiful Katharine Ross) and her husband Walter (Peter Masterson) have moved their family from the busy hustle and bustle of big city life to the quaint and sleepy town of Stepford, Conn. to lay down their roots permanently.

A bit shell shocked and uncomfortable with the move in general, Joanna hopes to bring her passion of photography to life and jump start her career in this simple town that just seems too perfect. Daily, Joanna is faced with disappointment in the behavior and odd ways the other woman view their role as wives. Joanna forms a friendship, to her delight, with Bobbie Markowe (Paula Prentiss) who embodies all the empowerment and desire to be a woman who lives, thinks and breathes passion, independence and confidence like herself. And who also wants to help the woman of Stepford be, well, more like them.

But Stepford is a community that doesn't take lightly to that kind of outlandish behavior. The woman of Stepford obey and serve only one person --- their husbands.

Excellent acting by the enormously talented and lovely Ross shined throughout, but the true genius in the movie displaying such a phenomenal performance was Prentiss. With a superb ensemble cast, "The Stepford Wives" is an eerie and dramatic spook trip that spins one heck of a twisted viewpoint on the American housewife, or better yet, womanhood!

These are the wives who left an impression on me when I first saw them, creepy. They still do.