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The Stepfather (2009)
The final week of Shitty Remake Month arrives with THE STEPFATHER (2009), a remake that takes the razor sharp menace of the original and sands it down until all that is left is a bland, overlit parade of Lifetime level thrills. The tension evaporates scene by scene, replaced with dialogue so flavorless it could have been generated by a malfunctioning appliance, and a villain who feels less like a cunning chameleon and more like someone rehearsing menace in a bathroom mirror. The movie tries to convince you it is building suspense, but mostly it is just wandering in circles hoping no one notices how little is happening.
And yet, buried deep in this beige swirl of mediocrity, there is exactly one glimmer of entertainment: Penn Badgley without a shirt. The film may fail at almost everything else, but it never misses an opportunity to remind the audience that he was the only thing even remotely worth looking at.
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By brandon Ford
4.3
2020 ratings
The final week of Shitty Remake Month arrives with THE STEPFATHER (2009), a remake that takes the razor sharp menace of the original and sands it down until all that is left is a bland, overlit parade of Lifetime level thrills. The tension evaporates scene by scene, replaced with dialogue so flavorless it could have been generated by a malfunctioning appliance, and a villain who feels less like a cunning chameleon and more like someone rehearsing menace in a bathroom mirror. The movie tries to convince you it is building suspense, but mostly it is just wandering in circles hoping no one notices how little is happening.
And yet, buried deep in this beige swirl of mediocrity, there is exactly one glimmer of entertainment: Penn Badgley without a shirt. The film may fail at almost everything else, but it never misses an opportunity to remind the audience that he was the only thing even remotely worth looking at.