Housewives from Another World (2010)

Movie Overview

The story follows three housewives who find their bodies taken over by visitors from another world. Once possessed, the trio sets its sights on a very specific goal: stopping the launch of a deep-space satellite before it can leave Earth's atmosphere. Heather Vandeven plays Karen, Christine Nguyen plays Carla, and Rebecca Love plays Rita, the three women at the center of this otherworldly takeover. Billy Chappell, Ron Ford, Ted Newsom, and Frankie Cullen round out the supporting roles, playing characters who cross paths with the possessed housewives as their plan unfolds. As a comedy built around a science fiction premise, the film leans into the absurdity of ordinary domestic figures suddenly acting as agents of an alien agenda. The setup keeps the scale small and the tone playful rather than dramatic, fitting Ray's history of low-budget genre filmmaking that favors quick pacing and tongue-in-cheek plotting over heavy special effects or dense mythology. At just under an hour and a half, the film moves through its premise efficiently, keeping the focus on the housewives' mission and the chaos it causes rather than expanding into a larger science fiction universe.