Product Description

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: Terry O'Quinn plays The Stepfather in this intelligent, unsettling chiller. We'd tell you O'Quinn's character name, but he has so many. You see, O'Quinn has been a stepfather many times over, romancing and marrying widowed women in several different states. After each wedding, everything is blissful--at least, until O'Quinn's new wife and kids fail to measure up to his notions of perfection. Then he kills them en masse, and moves on to his next victims. Shelley Hack and Jill Schoelen co-star as O'Quinn's latest wife and stepdaughter, who prove to be yet another disappointment to him. An adroit witches' blend of Ozzie and Harriet and Psycho, The Stepfather was scripted by suspense veteran Donald E. Westlake. A lesser sequel, Stepfather II, followed in 1989.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Catalonian International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Fantasporto Awards,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #150964 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

Needs a US DVD release.
To the reviewer who wrote "it's worth watching just to see Shelley Hack get hit with a telephone".... LOL!

This is an underappreciated and underseen horror gem from 1987. Low on budget, high on tension. A shrewd piece of acting by Terry O'Quinn. Director Joseph Ruben has made several good and a few great films, and this one ranks as his best, IMHO.

Can't believe with all the hoopla surrounding the TV show "Lost" that this film with a "Lost" star in it hasn't been rushed out on DVD. Legal/rights/ownership obstacles, perhaps? Well for goodness sakes smooth those obstacles out and deliver us this DVD. My VHS copy won't look good too much longer.

Where's the american release????????
The Stepfather is in my opinion one of the classic horror or slasher films out there in that genere.

This has been an all time favourite of mine and my family for years.

Terry O'Quinn is amazing and chilling as Jerry Blake.
Jill Schoelen has always been memorable to me as Stephanie, as well as Shelley Hack and Stephen Shellen in this movie.

To me, Terry was so good in this movie that The Stepfather is one of the great horror movie classic icons.

This is a must see!!!!

A CULT CLASSIC THAT NEEDS A U.S. DVD RELEASE! MY 700TH REVIEW!
'The Stepfather' is a very good thriller from the 80's! I'm glad I made a copy of it from cable TV years ago as it's not available on DVD in this country. Terry O'Quinn gives a fine performance as the warped "perfect family man". Bordering on parody because of O'Quinn's far off stares, this film does deliver some good tense moments when "The Stepfather" decided his little perfect family is not living up to his expectations! Shelly Hack even manages a good believable performance in this nightmare episode of 'Leave it to Beaver'. Well worth watching and it deserves a DVD release in this country!