The Stepfather
Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother Susan happily living with her new boyfriend David. As Michael and David get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of this new guy.
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"Of all the films to remake The Stepfather (1987) starring the excellent Terry O'Quinn seems like a really peculiar choice. I personally enjoyed the original and to an extent its two sequels but went into this assuming the worst. I felt like it would miss the point of the original and overly gloss it with Hollywood sparkle. Well, it's somewhere inbetween. The Stepfather is a bigger budget version of essentially the same tale, but simply not done as well. So it looks all pretty pretty but doesn't have the same impact that Terry O'Quinn provided. As a thriller this is passa..."
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This remake and The Stepfather (1987) were loosely based on the crimes of John List, a New Jersey accountant who murdered his wife, mother, and three children at their home in November 1971, and then disappeared. List eluded justice for almost eighteen years, during which time he assumed a new identity, remarried, and resumed his work as an accountant. He was finally arrested in June 1989 in Virginia, after the story of his murders was featured on an episode of America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988); a former neighbor had recognized the age-progressed clay bust of List, which turned out to bear a close resemblance to his actual appearance, and alerted the authorities. List died in prison in 2008.
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Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother Susan happily living with her new boyfriend David. As Michael and David get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of this new guy.