Who believes that the Stepfather was a vapid thriller film?”
“Father knows best” is what I kept waiting for the titular stepfather (Dylan Walsh) to say, but he never does. Man, this guy’s a jerk! I wanted to like him, I really did. But his habit of butchering his family and their neighbors makes it impossible. The stepfather has a cruel MO. He moves to a new town and assigns himself a brand ,new identity and begins dating the prettiest divorcee/widow he can find, assuming they have kids. When the new life goes awry in one way or another, he murders the family and moves a few states over to begin anew. The first sign that he’s about to bring down the ax? He cancels the family newspaper subscription. Ladies, be wary if you catch your husband or boyfriend calling The Courier. For most of the film he is posing as David Harris, groom-to-be for Susan Harding (Sela Ward), a divorced mom with a very, very pretty family. Her son Michael (Penn Badgley) just got back from reform school and is predictably skeptical about this stranger living with his mom. I
“Father knows best” is what I kept waiting for the titular stepfather (Dylan Walsh) to say, but he never does. Man, this guy’s a jerk! I wanted to like him, I really did. But his habit of butchering his family and their neighbors makes it impossible. The stepfather has a cruel MO. He moves to a new town and assigns himself a brand ,new identity and begins dating the prettiest divorcee/widow he can find, assuming they have kids. When the new life goes awry in one way or another, he murders the family and moves a few states over to begin anew. The first sign that he’s about to bring down the ax? He cancels the family newspaper subscription. Ladies, be wary if you catch your husband or boyfriend calling The Courier. For most of the film he is posing as David Harris, groom-to-be for Susan Harding (Sela Ward), a divorced mom with a very, very pretty family. Her son Michael (Penn Badgley) just got back from reform school and is predictably skeptical about this stranger living with his mom. I
