Title: The Stepfather (2009)
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: Amber Heard, who is in Pineapple Express is in this movie as the girlfriend of the older son. Otherwise, I don’t know these actors.
Introduction: Pulled from the library shelf.
Location: Mostly in one small town, and in their house at that.
Plot: The main character in this movie basically goes around as a serial killer, offing broken families. It’s an interesting plot, which probably held better water when this movie originally came out, but the thing is that nowadays it seems unrealistic. Here you have this guy- who seems too good to be true- and he has an answer for everything. I think the tipping point for me was when the neighbor saw someone on a television show she thought was him, then she “accidentally” trips over her cat and dies. At that point in time, you do what you have to do—you go on the internet, you call the television station—WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO—to make sure that this guy isn’t going to kill you and your family. But, no, the girlfriend just tells the oldest son to keep his mouth shut so he doesn’t have to go back to military school. I mean, if there were just some little coincidences then I could understand, but this was like something straight out of Scary Movie. You know, I expected the stepfather at one point to come out wearing a t-shirt that says “I Killed My Last So-Called Family and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt” or something. I could see those huge Vegas style flashing lights above his head, with arrows pointing down and everything, screaming out “HE’S GOING TO MURDER YOU AND YOUR FAMILY” but no one in the movie could see it or at least care enough to do something about it. This is what frustrates me about horror movies. You get these characters who are so dumb they almost deserve to die in the movie. Whatever happened to the smart characters that you didn’t want to see brutally beaten?
Acting: Yeah, it was okay.
Production: This was in theaters.
Sex/Nudity: Not so much, no.
Special Effects: They’re pretty non-existent.
Overall Verdict: This movie was directed by the same guy who directed the Prom Night remake, which is funny to me because I feel exactly the same way about this movie as I do about Prom Night. There are probably a hundred movies or more that I’d recommend you watch before this one (or Prom Night), but if you have absolutely nothing else to watch and feel like sort of wasting an hour and a half or so of your life, then by all means, watch this movie. Just don’t under any circumstances pay for it.
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