The Stepfather 1987
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A family-values man named Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine (Shelley Hack), who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle. — alfiehitchie
Screenwriter Donald E. Westlake based the character of Stephanie on his real-life teenage stepdaughter, who he has having difficulty getting along with.
When Jerry Blake gets the mail out of the letterbox, he finds a yellow envelope for Stephanie, he notices that it came from the Seattle Examiner. Looking worried, he opens the envelope to see his own photo in it. He starts to panic. Then Stephanie arrives home, and asks for her mail. He gives her a copy of Cosmopolitan, and goes inside the house. Later, he goes to a photo shop, and replaces his own photo with another man in a family photo. The man is smiling in the photo Jerry is about to put back in the yellow envelope. In a later scene, Stephanie and her friend Karen are in her room, with the photo of the family man photo Jerry replaced. The man in the photo is not smiling, as he was in the first photo we see of him.
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Effective n creepy thriller aided by a top notch performance.
I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs. Revisited it recently. A psychotic serial killer and a master of disguise, Jerry Blake is obsessed with having an ideal family. He changes his identity and job and is always on the lookout for a new widow so that he can start a new family. Whenever any new family members do not comport with his expectations, he spirals into a spell of madness and attempts to brutally murder them. Inspite of being aware that his new stepdaughter doesn't like him, he tries hard to make it look like a complete happy family in front of neighbors. Blake is unaware that his last victim's/wife's brother is on his trail. The brother of the last victim who is on the trail looks like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Terry O'Quinn's acting is the highlight. The direction n script is also well done. The film moves at a good pace and it has ample amount of tension, suspense n creepiness. Am i the only one who found the movie a bit darkly comical too. The scene where Jerry Blake puts one anonymous innocent moustachioed fella's photo in the envelope. I laughed out loud. Jerry Blake's facial expressions aft seein his own photo in the mail. The time Blake is caught off guard in the basement venting out some steam. The way the doctor gives him a fake call as a prospective buyer jus to meet him. I found all these darkly comical. Jill Schoelen was 24 at the time, but she's playing a 16 year old in this movie and her nudity was a put off n uncalled for.
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After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again. After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again. After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.
Jerry Blake : Wait a minute, who am I here?
Jerry Blake : That's right. Jerry Blake. Thanks, honey.
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January 23, 1987 ( 1987-01-23 ) (United States)
Terry O'Quinn as Jerry Blake "The Stepfather" / Henry Morrison / Bill Hodgkins
Jill Schoelen as Stephanie Maine
Shelley Hack as Susan Maine
Charles Lanyer as Dr. A. Bondurant
Stephen Shellen as Jim Ogilvie
Stephen E. Miller as Al Brennan
Robyn Stevan as Karen
Jeff Schultz as Paul Baker
Lindsay Bourne as Art Teacher
Anna Hagan as Mrs. Leitner
Gillian Barber as Annie Barnes
Blu Mankuma as Lt. Jack Wall
Jackson Davies as Mr. Chesterton
Sandra Head as Receptionist
Gabrielle Rose as Dorothy Rinehard
Richard Sargent as Mr. Anderson
Margot Pinvidic as Mrs. Anderson
Rochelle Greenwood as Cindy Anderson
Don S. Williams as Mr. Stark
Don MacKay as Joe
Dale Wilson as Frank
Gary Hetherington as Herb
Andrew Snider as Mr. Grace
Marie Stillin as Mrs. Fairfax
Paul Batten as Mr. Fairfax
Sheila Paterson as Dr. Barbara Faraday
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The Stepfather is a 1987 American psychological horror film [3] directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Terry O'Quinn , Jill Schoelen , and Shelley Hack . O'Quinn stars as an identity-assuming serial killer who marries a widow with a teenage daughter. Having killed his previous family and changed his identity, his murderous tendencies continue after his stepdaughter becomes suspicious about him. The film is loosely based on the life of mass murderer John List , [4] although the plot is more commonly associated with slasher films of the era than a true story. The film was written by Donald E. Westlake , from a story by Westlake, Carolyn Lefcourt, and Brian Garfield with an uncredited rewrite by David Loughery .
The film was theatrically released in the United States on January 23, 1987. It grossed $2.5 million at the box office and was well-received by critics. It has since gained a cult following and was followed by two sequels, Stepfather II (1989) and Stepfather III (1992), and a remake, also called The Stepfather , was released in 2009.
Henry Morrison assumes a different identity in the attempt to find the perfect family. In the beginning of the movie, he washes off blood in a bathroom after murdering the family he'd been living with. He then changes his appearance and puts his belongings into a suitcase. Henry leaves through the front door of his house, nonchalantly passing the butchered remains of his family. Boarding a ferry , Henry throws the suitcase containing the objects from his former life into the ocean. One year later, Henry—now operating as a real estate agent named Jerry Blake in the suburbs of Seattle —has married the widow Susan Maine. Jerry's relationship with Susan's 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie, is strained. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Bondurant, advises her to give Jerry a chance. Stephanie, meanwhile, has a lot of behavioral issues at school and is skeptical of Jerry and his intentions.
Meanwhile, Jim Ogilvie, the brother of Jerry's murdered previous wife, runs an article about his sister's murder in the newspaper and attempts to find the man that killed his sister. While hosting a neighborhood barbecue, Jerry discovers the article and is disturbed by it. Jerry goes into the basement of the house and begins maniacally rambling to himself, unaware that Stephanie has also entered the basement. Discovering his stepdaughter, Jerry brushes off his outbursts by saying that he was simply letting off steam. He tells her not to worry. Stephanie finds the newspaper mentioning Jerry's earlier killings and comes to believe her stepfather is the murderer mentioned in the article. She writes a letter to the newspaper requesting a photo of Henry Morrison, but Jerry finds the photo in the mail and replaces it with a stranger's photo, allaying her suspicions.
Curious about Stephanie's stepfather, who has repeatedly refused to meet him, Dr. Bondurant makes an appointment with Jerry under an assumed name, saying he wants to buy a house. During their meeting, Bondurant asks too many questions and Jerry realizes that Bondurant is not who he says he is, and, mistakenly believing he is an undercover cop, beats him to death and stages a car accident. The next day, Jerry informs Stephanie of Bondurant's death, claiming he was in a car accident, and succeeds in bonding with her. Jerry's newfound relationship with his stepdaughter is quickly cut short when he catches Stephanie kissing her boyfriend, Paul. Jerry accuses Paul of attempting to rape Stephanie, which causes an argument with Stephanie and Susan, and drives Paul away. Stephanie runs out on Jerry and Susan because Susan says Jerry is her father, though he's not. The next day, Jerry quits his job and creates a new identity for himself in another town. He begins to court another widow, while planning to get rid of Susan and Stephanie.
Having discovered where Jerry is now living, Jim Ogilvie begins going door to door, in search of his former brother-in-law. After Jim stops by, Susan phones the real estate agency to tell Jerry that someone was looking for him, only to be informed that Jerry quit several days ago. Susan asks Jerry, but, while explaining himself to Susan, Jerry confuses his identities and Susan realizes Stephanie was right about him. Realizing his mistake, Jerry bashes Susan on the head with the phone and knocks her down the basement stairs. Content that Susan is dead, Jerry then sets out to kill Stephanie.
Jim, who has realized Jerry is the man who killed his family, arrives wielding a revolver, but Jerry stabs him to death before Jim can shoot him. After terrorizing Stephanie, he corners her in the attic, only to fall through the weak floor down to the bathroom. Susan shoots Jerry twice when he tries to attack Stephanie, and Stephanie stabs him in the chest. He weakly utters "I love you" and tumbles down the stairs. Stephanie later cuts down a birdhouse she and Jerry had built during the time they bonded.
The film was released on DVD for the first time in North America by Shout! Factory on October 13, 2009. [5] Shout! Factory released the Blu-ray version of the film on June 15, 2010.
The Stepfather was initially marketed as a psychological thriller. When audiences did not respond to this as well as New Century would have liked, they marketed it as a slasher film. [1] The film was theatrically released in the United States on January 23, 1987. During its opening weekend, The Stepfather grossed $260,587 in 105 theatres. Ultimately playing in 148 theatres, it earned a total US gross of $2.5 million. [2]
The Stepfather has an 88% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 6.8/10 out of 32 reviews. [6] Film critic Roger Ebert with the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie 2.5 stars out of 4 and wrote "Violence itself seems to sell at the box office, even when it's divorced from any context. Maybe that's what the filmmakers were thinking. What often happens, though, is that in an otherwise flawed film there are a couple of things that are wonderful. The Stepfather has one wonderful element: Terry O'Quinn's performance." [7]
O'Quinn was nominated for both a Saturn and an Independent Spirit Award . Director Ruben was honored with the Critics Award at the 1988 Cognac Festival . [8] The film was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award for Best Film at the 1990 Fantasporto [9] and included in Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments at spot #70. [10]
Describing it as a cult film , Scott Tobias interprets the film as a critique of Reaganism . [11]
The film was followed by the sequel Stepfather II in 1989, which opened to negative reviews. The TV movie Stepfather III was released in 1992, with the title character played by another actor. A remake titled The Stepfather was released in 2009 to negative reviews.
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