2009 · horror · thriller
The Stepfather
Directed by Nelson McCormick1h 41m2009
Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
Our read: The Stepfather (2009) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
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