Word: stepdad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Best. He may even believe the myth he is peddling. But its weight crushes him, forces him to kill the thing he should love. By the end of this fine-handed thriller, the stairs leading from living room to bedroom are littered with bloody archetypes: mom at the bottom, stepdad at the top, daughter in between poised to destroy the black widower. Donald E. Westlake based his sleek script on the case of a New Jersey serial killer. Director Joseph Ruben brings his no-nonsense classicism to what could have been just another tabloid horror story. And Schoelen...
...dialogue is spiced with occasional shots of black humor, all based on our exclusive knowledge that behind the smiling stepdad exterior lurks a raging psycho. Family Number Two is struggling for a reconciliation, and the Stepfather suggests, "C'mon, honey let's bury the hatchet." Gulp. But all you slasher-thrasher fans out there be warned. The Stepfather would rank low on Joe-Bob Briggs boobs'n'blood scale; this is suspense you bozos: protracted anticipation laced with adrenaline, not gory gratification every six and a half minutes, Friday the 13th-style...