The Stepfather

Having seen the original, I didn’t think this would be all that good. A sort of “Wash, rinse, repeat” thing, but I was clearly taken aback. Also, I can’t definitely deny that Dylan is SOOOO HOT! 🔥

I was just thinking about the stepfather, and how awesome it was. I came here on iTunes to see if I could buy it, but they only have the remake. The original was so, so much better! Hopefully, someday, The original version of this movie will be available on iTunes, or at least some other digital streaming service.

I got the rent and it was donloading and it said expires in 30 days now it say 21 hours

This review is an excerpt from my book “Killer B’s: The 237 Best Movies On Video You’ve (Probably) Never Seen,” which is available as an ebook on iBooks. If you enjoy this review, there are 236 more like it in the book (plus a whole lot more). Check it out! THE STEPFATHER In the 1940s, we fought a viscious psychopath to protect the American Way of Life. Today, if you kill for that vision, *you’re* the nut—like Jerry, a platitude-puking, pod-person paragon of ‘50s values, so square he makes Mike Brady look like Howard Stern. All Jerry wants is a little “order” in his life—and mere perfection from his family. There are no gray areas in his philosophy, so any violation of the whitest white deserves the blackest punishment. If one family disappoints him... Well, he’ll just have to try, try again. It is the American way, after all. So when his faux family proves to have some real values—like survival, self-reliance and insight—his defeat is a nail in the coffin of those vague, shallow “Family Values” we’ve been bombarded with for years. They always were a fantasy—and if you live in a fantasy world too long, how can you be sane? Thanks to scriptwriter Donald E. Westlake, whose literary efforts included both the most savage of hardboiled crime thrillers (“Point Blank” and the Parker series) and the most humorous of caper comedies (“The Hot Rock” and other titles in his Dortmunder series), the flick is filled with wickedly witty subtle touches, like Jerry’s fondness for Freddy Krueger sweaters, a parody of Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving painting, and an homage to two Hitchcock films in the final confrontation. It’s a real “psycho” thriller, providing plenty of suspense and mind-games without the need for graphic gore.