Hungry Wives

3.3

Horror

Drama

1972

89 min

Joan Mitchell is an unhappy, middle-aged suburban housewife with an uncommunicative businessman husband and a distant 19 year old daughter on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solace in witchcraft after visiting a local tarot reader and leader of a secret black arts wicca set, who inspires Joan to follow her own path. After dabbling in witchcraft and believing she has become a real witch, Joan withdraws into a fantasy world and sinks deeper and deeper into her new lifestyle until the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred.

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Horror

Drama

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"i can tell this movie really could have been something, and director (romero) is very talented at surreal sequences. but it clearly has been chopped into near-incoherence by some producer. it's such a shame, because if it had been given a little breathing room, it could have been another stepford wives. maybe not that level of masterpiece, but still very good and eerie."

Marsh

"I knew from the moment a man did a madlib in a small group at a house party and then made an announcement to the whole party where he read the madlib we were dealing in just the waspiest of suburbia. I loved the vivid surrealism of the dream sequences and how the film portrays the sort of middle class suburban fears and views. And hey, there are worse ways to go about a midlife crysis than shedding obsolete institutions and killing your pos husband. There may have been something lost In the edit and due to the budget but I think what is here is pretty damn interesting and very forward thinking. Romero is simultaneously one of the most well respected horror directors and someone I'd almost call underrated by modern horror fans."