Synopsis

Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?

Official Review

Each year more and more R-rated horror classics are being remade into PG-13 tweener fare, and die-hard horror fans are understandably miffed. Hollywood studios eagerly gut the original films of all provocative content with the sole purpose of selling more tickets to the little ‘uns. The vast majority of the time a hardcore R-rated classic is neutered of all sex and violence until it’s whittled down to a bland, PG-13 nub. But the opposite is true of The Stepfather, a slow, dark, R-rated drama from 1987 that has been repurposed into a fast, loose, infinitely creepy PG-13 remake. …Read More