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Genres:
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Drama /
Horror /
Mystery /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Joseph Ruben
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Actors:
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Jill Schoelen,
Stephen E. Miller,
Stephen Shellen,
Shelley Hack,
Charles Lanyer,
Robyn Stevan,
Jeff Schultz,
Lindsay Bourne,
Terry O'Quinn,
Anna Hagan
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)70
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Plot Summary:
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All around a "folks values" man Jerry Blake who marries widows and divorc?es with children in search of the execute family. As gladly as his new family members make an appearance signs of being human and not robots who will step unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domesticated blitheness begins to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his semblance, assumes an new singularity, and skips to another village to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine, who sees him as the model surrogate institute for her teenage daughter Stephanie, and is in short order up to hi... s old tricks when she proves too much of a worrying teen to treat.Read more Less
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The Stepfather
"...THE STEPFATHER is an engrossing not knowing thriller that refreshingly doesn't take in the audience in terms of valid clues and cook up twists..."
The Stepfather
This exposed to-norm domestic slasher derives a modicum of significance from the script's discreet, if unoriginal, reworking...
The Stepfather
A sardonic and unerringly frightening B-movie masterpiece that strips down the American Dream to its maggot-ridden sanguinary nobility. Shelley Hack and Jill Schoelen are a widow and her daughter who gradually in to realise that the charming, affable man of the house is actually a multiple murderer obsessed with middle-division values and establishing the perfect about. Their failure to persist up to his pure plan of home bliss earmarks them as additions to his endlessly-growing lean of victims. The acting is of a uniformly squiffed standard, with Terry O'Quinn unforgettable as the deranged patriarch whose psychotic mood swings tighten the suspense screws. Joseph Ruben's perfect direction sets the destruction against an unsettling backdrop of painfully mundane normalit...
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