The Stepfather (1987)
Driving by his deep will of finding of finding perfect family, Jerry Blake, a young man that admires values, marries a widow with her children, but when they didn't follow his strict rules, he murders them all, so he goes into another country, where he marries another woman and prepares for making the same with her.
5 July 1948, Seattle, Washington, USA
9 January 1941, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
1954, Canada
17 June 1957, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
January 15, 2008
Ruben's surprisingly resonant and durable tale ... cannily reflects, in a larger way, the era of its creation
January 01, 2000
While I was watching the film, I was distracted by elements of the Idiot Plot Syndrome -- moments when only an idiot would have made such obvious mistakes.
September 24, 2007
An engrossing suspense thriller that refreshingly doesn't cheat the audience in terms of valid clues and plot twists.
June 27, 2011
The key to this movie is O'Quinn as the title character. He's a scary bastard, and as an actor he commits to the role.
August 30, 2004
Too often disappointingly thin.
February 11, 2011
The Stepfather works for American Eagle Realty, and the company logo pegs him as both a patriot and a predator. 'It's like living with Ward Cleaver,' his stepdaughter complains, not knowing that the 'cleaver' reference could be another pun...
January 01, 2000
May be the best movie about the breakup of a family since Shoot the Moon.
November 25, 2009
...ultimately manages to overcome its almost aggressively uneven atmosphere to establish itself as a solid little '80s thriller.
January 01, 2000
The styling is never less than assured, and [director] Ruben knows how to put bland, unruffled surfaces to sinister Hitchcockian uses.
October 16, 2009
The Stepfather is the full package: fast-paced, well-acted, suspenseful and brimming with bursts of nasty violence.
June 21, 2012
That's really all the movie needs to work: a sublime villain, with tight, driven direction, perfectly sturdy, effective writing, and a heroine who we can believe in.
June 24, 2006
One is left longing for Hitchcock's dark, daring wit and disturbingly amoral insights.
