Well this movie is a remake of the old The Stepfather from 1987. I did never see the old The Stepfather, but I watched this one, and will probably watch the old ones later.
This movie is directed by Nelson McCormick, and the screenplay is written by J.S. Cardone. But the original story was written by Donald E. Westlake, Carolyn Lefcourt and Brian Garfield.
These movies are loosely based on the real crimes by the mass murderer John List.
The film starts out with the scene where "Grady Edwards" (Dylan Walsh) is transforming himself in the bathroom, shaving off his beard, dying his hair and so on. He goes downstairs with his luggage and makes himself food and coffee, and when he leaves we will see that the rest of his "family" is murdered. His "wife" and three children.
After this we meet Susan Harding (Sela Ward) who is out shopping with her two youngest children, and they meet Grady as the two children are fighting over cookies. Grady says "Life is not fair. Life is about letting the woman pick the cookies."
He introduces himself to Susan, but under another name, David Harris. He tells her he lost his wife and daughter in a car accident about a year ago. Susan gets charmed by David, and six months later they are engaged. This is when Susan`s eldest son Michael (Penn Badgley) returns from military school, and gets to meet David at his homecoming surprise party. David invites Michael for a drink in the basement.
In the basement David has installed locked cabins where he keeps his secret stash of tequila.
David seems to be a really good husband and father to all the children, he even fix things for Michael so he is allowed to go back to the swimming team at his old school.
But this is when David starts to act out a little, when Susan is yelling at her youngest son Sean to turn down the sounds on his video game. When he does not listen, David goes in to his room grabs him by the neck and turns down the video games himself.
The first suspicion the oldest son Michael gets that it is something wrong with his mothers new boyfriend David, is when he mixed up the name of his late daughter.
And he gets even more suspicious when the neighbor lady comes to tell their mother that David looks allot like a person she saw on Americas Most Wanted.
When Michael starts to investigate this on his own, things only gets worse and worse.
I thought this movie was an alright movie, but I was hoping for allot more than what it was.
As I said earlier in the post, I have not seen the original The Stepfather, but I will see it later. And I hope it is allot better than this one.
Of course it was an ok movie, but it is not a movie I would be interested in seeing again.
I wish we would see more of the unraveling of the killer, seeing him going more crazy as things doesnt go the way he wants it to. I want to see more crazy!
Also there is not so much brutality in this movie eather. But it was an ok movie.
The music was not so interesting eather, the onlu song I really remember from the movie was an awful version of Happy Together with Filter.
I give this movie a 4 out of 10
This movie is directed by Nelson McCormick, and the screenplay is written by J.S. Cardone. But the original story was written by Donald E. Westlake, Carolyn Lefcourt and Brian Garfield.
These movies are loosely based on the real crimes by the mass murderer John List.
The film starts out with the scene where "Grady Edwards" (Dylan Walsh) is transforming himself in the bathroom, shaving off his beard, dying his hair and so on. He goes downstairs with his luggage and makes himself food and coffee, and when he leaves we will see that the rest of his "family" is murdered. His "wife" and three children.
After this we meet Susan Harding (Sela Ward) who is out shopping with her two youngest children, and they meet Grady as the two children are fighting over cookies. Grady says "Life is not fair. Life is about letting the woman pick the cookies."
He introduces himself to Susan, but under another name, David Harris. He tells her he lost his wife and daughter in a car accident about a year ago. Susan gets charmed by David, and six months later they are engaged. This is when Susan`s eldest son Michael (Penn Badgley) returns from military school, and gets to meet David at his homecoming surprise party. David invites Michael for a drink in the basement.
In the basement David has installed locked cabins where he keeps his secret stash of tequila.
David seems to be a really good husband and father to all the children, he even fix things for Michael so he is allowed to go back to the swimming team at his old school.
But this is when David starts to act out a little, when Susan is yelling at her youngest son Sean to turn down the sounds on his video game. When he does not listen, David goes in to his room grabs him by the neck and turns down the video games himself.
The first suspicion the oldest son Michael gets that it is something wrong with his mothers new boyfriend David, is when he mixed up the name of his late daughter.
And he gets even more suspicious when the neighbor lady comes to tell their mother that David looks allot like a person she saw on Americas Most Wanted.
When Michael starts to investigate this on his own, things only gets worse and worse.
I thought this movie was an alright movie, but I was hoping for allot more than what it was.
As I said earlier in the post, I have not seen the original The Stepfather, but I will see it later. And I hope it is allot better than this one.
Of course it was an ok movie, but it is not a movie I would be interested in seeing again.
I wish we would see more of the unraveling of the killer, seeing him going more crazy as things doesnt go the way he wants it to. I want to see more crazy!
Also there is not so much brutality in this movie eather. But it was an ok movie.
The music was not so interesting eather, the onlu song I really remember from the movie was an awful version of Happy Together with Filter.
I give this movie a 4 out of 10
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