“The Stepfather is a cunning, shapely thriller – a beautiful piece of construction.” – Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn, The Rocketeer, Lost) is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life – including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs complete with an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he’s found it when he marries Susan (Shelley Hack, Troll, Charlie’s Angels) and becomes the stepfather to Susan’s 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie (Jill Schoelen, Popcorn, The Phantom Of The Opera). But Stephanie gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his Father Knows Best attitude – she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior. Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or could he be the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?