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Genres:
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Horror /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Nelson McCormick
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Actors:
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Skyler Samuels,
Dylan Walsh,
Sela Ward,
Penn Badgley,
Amber Heard,
Sherry Stringfield,
Paige Turco,
Jon Tenney,
Nancy Linehan Charles,
Deirdre Lovejoy
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(5.2/10)190
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Plot Summary:
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When a teenage friend (Penn Badgley) begins to that his new stepfather (Dylan Walsh) is a dishonourable serial killer-diller from Manila who preys on broken families, he races to gather the grounds that will back up his radical exact before it's too delayed. The 1987 thriller that vaccination Lost celebrity Terry O'Quinn to cult stardom serves as impulse for this remake penned away J.S. Cardone and directed beside Nelson McCormick. Sela Quarter, Jon Tenney, and Amber Heard co-star in a Screen Gems freedom
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The Stepfather (2009)
Kevin ThomasThe Stepfather is that rarity, an effective remake of a screen classic that can stand alone on its own considerable merits. Director Nelson McCormick and writer J.S. Cardone deftly reworked the 1987 original (written by Donald E. Westlake and directed by Joseph Ruben) while wisely adhering to the essence of the chilling original.
Both center on a monster with pathos, a man forever searching for the perfect family to love -- and turning into a homicidal maniac when it inevitably proves to be all too human. Terry O'Quinn was unforgettable in the original, striving to play the '50s "Father Knows Best" parent with a nerdy squareness that was darkly amusing when he wasn't terrifying.
In the new version, Dylan Walsh's crazed David Harris similarly ...
The Stepfather (2009)
John AndersonThe label "family film" doesn't quite stick to The Stepfather, helmer Nelson McCormick's virtually bloodless remake of the 1987 horror-thriller that spawned a mini-franchise, although it does deal in issues both domestic and psychotic. But the film's target aud will likely care less about social subtexts than about why the movie's villain comes off as a homicidal Ned Flanders. Sony/Screen Gems release may slay on opening weekend, but will succumb to Saw VI on Oct. 23 after the slasher crowd realizes this stepdad is a far too civilized animal.
McCormick's Stepfather boasts a decent script by J.S. Cardone, but it seems to have been made in a bubble, as if nothing had transpired in the world of slasher/horror since the late Donald Westlake (The Grifters...
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