Having just finished watching a terrible horror movie remake ("My Bloody Valentine") a few hours ago, I discover that a remake of "The Stepfather" will be released later in the year.
The original film was a scary as hell, satirical thriller released in the middle of the 1980s, that oh so wondrous decade when, led by a pompadoured saint by the name of Ronald Reagan, our country returned to prosperity and "family values." Morning in America and all that saccharine piffle.
Anyway, the film's titular character is a psychotic who wants nothing more than to be the patriarch in The Perfect American Family. Naturally, each one he marries into proves short of his expectations. So he ends up murdering its members (presumably because family counseling's too costly an alternative), adopting a new identity, and trying for Perfection with another family.
Like "Wall Street", it's one of the great cinematic reflections of America during that era. Highly recommended.
The stepfather is played by the intense Terry O'Quinn, whose talent, I'm glad to hear, is being implemented in a low-budget show which I don't think many people in America have seen. What's it called? Oh, yeah - "Lost."
"The Stepfather" (original): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vPfvgh_dbU
"The Stepfather" (remake, in which, of course, all characters look like they stepped out of the pages of either "GQ" or "Vogue"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjEPX8TP5J8
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