THE STEPFATHER - Mike Brady, he is not!

U.S Release Date: JANUARY 23, 1987

Step-parents have gotten a pretty raw deal in how they’ve been portrayed in stories through the ages. From Cinderella’s step-family to ‘The Other Mother’ in Coraline, most are seen as mean, conniving, thoughtless, bitter and generally cruel.

In Episode 3 of the BEST MOVIE YEAR: 1987 podcast, the poster boy for sick-and-twisted step-parenting is celebrated when we take a long, hard look at the psychological chiller, THE STEPFATHER, starring the dementedly brilliant TERRY O’QUINN in the title role.

The trailer, if you dare…:

Directed by JOSEPH RUBEN (who would revisit twisted family dynamics in 1993’s Macaulay Culkin thriller, The Good Son), THE STEPFATHER exploited a period in American society when new families were forming in the wake of the boom divorce years of the 1970s. Step-family issues were much talked about it 1987, and as ‘Jerry Blake’, the new authority figure in the life of teenager ‘Stephanie Maine’ (JILL SCHOELEN), TERRY O’QUINN embodies every nightmarish version of the mysterious adult suddenly living with you.

You can watch the film in full on YouTube.

The Podcast

WATCH ‘Happy Daddy’ TV expert Dan Barrett and ‘survivor-of-two-teenage-daughters’ film reviewer Simon Foster as they recount the white-knuckle tension of THE STEPFATHER:

Simon and Dan have undertaken to watch 100 movies from Jan-Dec 1987 to answer mankind’s most pressing question: Was 1987 the best movie year ever?

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Start your journey back to the heady days of that year with Episode 1: WITHNAIL & I and Episode 2: THE KINDRED

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