Jerry Blake (Terry O Quinn, Lost) is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life: including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he has found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to her 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his Father Knows Best attitude: she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior. Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or is he actually the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?
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March 5, 2008
#1
This film was based on the List Murders that occurred in my town (Westfield NJ) in ’71, I believe. Actually when I say based, I actually mean Loosely based/influenced by. I remember seeing TSF in the theatre as a kid, & thinking it was kinda cheesy. I’ll pick it up ’cause I’m curious to see it as an adult. They also produced an (awful/inaccurate) TV movie not long after List was caught, after being on the lam for about 17 years. List was played by actor Robert Blake, ironically. David Caruso (CSI ?) played chief Moran who actually hired me in my law enforcement career. I read recently that the producers of the original film were surprised at how close some of their scenes/story lines, came to pass when List was finally apprehended long after the film was released. Kinda cool. Enjoy the DVD.
March 6, 2008
#2
I agree with the other review the re-make looks really stupid,Hopefully the stepfather series get put out on dvd.Hollywood really has ran out of ideas,I’m waiting for them to re-make silent night deadly night.I don’t remember the first stepfather but the second stepfather was great……….
March 6, 2008
#3
I’ve been waiting forever for this to come out on DVD!!!! FINALLY!!!!! Great classic from the 80′s!!! I guess it took a remake to get them to get this out on DVD.
Whatever works, looking forward to Oct. 13th!!!!!
March 6, 2008
#4
I watched the movie at the local discount cinemas (for only $1.50) and the movie overall was quite thrilling, although I took off one star because I was apalled at how a man could kill his family in cold blood and go after another innocent one. The main character is the true EPITOME of evil and it made me sick to think there might be actual people in the world like that character. People like him a true monsters and deserved to be locked up for life is a cold jail cell with no recreation.
The plot of the movie keeps building until the tension finally blows to it maximum thrilling point near the end (you need to watch the movie to see what happens). I just hope that nobody will end up with a stepfather like the one potrayed in this movie and if they do, they should pack up and run away as far as possible. The main character of the movie is a true vermin and a scumbag. I can’t believe at how he would try to kill off a second family!
March 6, 2008
#5
I received this as an early Christmas present. After I saw the remake, I wanted to see the original. This movie is very good and really creepy. A psychopath marries women with children and kills them because he wants the ‘American Dream’ Jerry Blake is newly married again and has a step-daughter named Stephanie who is suspicious of Jerry. After a while, Jerry finally breaks down and tries to kill his family again. I highly recommend THE STEPFATHER!!!