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The Stepfather (2009)
Driving by his deep hatred and jealous of his mother, Michael, a young teenager guy, who spends years in the military school, as upon his return, he finds that his mother has a boyfriend, the thing that brings terrible for him, as he does not like him, while he treats him well, the thing that makes his suspicion.
14 April 1994
17 May 1965, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
22 April 1986, Austin, Texas, USA
4 February 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 November 1971, Montréal, Québec, Canada
30 June 1962, Abilene, Texas, USA
20 January 1951, Texas, USA
December 11, 2009
Cliché-ridden and full of plot-holes.
October 18, 2009
Even by horror-remake standards, The Stepfather sets the bar for pointlessness.
October 18, 2009
This perfunctory retread had a tame, made-for-TV feel, and not just because the humdrum cast is composed of network and cable B-listers.
December 11, 2009
There's mayhem all over the place and not a policeman, or much logic, in sight. Watchable nonsense, with performances better than the story deserves.
August 12, 2010
The genre has diverged into two paths: the brutally gruesome and the suspenseful. This is going for the latter, which would have been fine if it were in fact thrilling.
December 19, 2010
Horror remake has more tension than blood.
October 22, 2009
The Stepfather is, finally, only as good as its stepfather -- and Dylan Walsh ain't bad.
February 15, 2010
Any subtlety or implicit social satire to be found in Joseph Ruben's original went out with the last neighborhood trash pickup. Too bad the service was canceled before it could haul away this waste-of-time remake. [Blu-ray]
October 19, 2009
That last stormy night of violence should be the shocker. Giving away his ruthlessness in earlier killings robs the movie of it its payoff as it saps the climax of much of its power.
October 18, 2009
This remake turns a fondly remembered horror/thriller into a mild and tedious suspense film.
December 11, 2009
Not so much a contemporary re-make of Joseph Ruben's 1987 psychological thriller as a lobotomised bastard step-child: over-plotted, over-long, and stripped of the original's sharp, satirical subversion of suburban family values.
February 15, 2013
What a shame that the remake fell into the unwieldy hands of the same jokers responsible for last year's execrable Prom Night redo.