Directed by -Nelson McCormick
Produced By -Greg Mooridian
Starring – Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Amber Heard , Sela Ward
Music by- Charlie Clouser
Release Date- 16th October 2009
Rated- PG

Sequels and remakes can be of two types. For one, the directors and scriptwriters actually sit down and analyse the plot and make sure to understand the movie and the concept. Once the director understands it he/ she gets down to analysing the movie and deciding what changes have to be made in order to give the audience a nice take on the story without disturbing or swaying away from the original plot. This is the best way to successfully remake classic movies. The other alternative to remaking a classic would be using the same plotlines and taking a shortcut by using the similar concepts and making it into a modern day flick with no real substance. The Stepfather (2009), unfortunately, follows the latter, and does not do any justice to the past Stepfather movies.

Remaking a movie is an art but remaking a movie into something that not only spoils its name but also the name of the franchise preceding it is an example of the lack of effort the filmmakers provided. The movie plot is nice but the style of executing it in 2009 is horrible. The story starts off with Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) who comes home from military school to painfully find that his mother is in love with a man called David Harris (Dylan Walsh). He seems like the perfect father and husband to the house but this is when people begin to realise that he is not quite the man that he is supposed to be. Suspicions arise and thus, the son, along with his girlfriend, tries to get help and set the pieces of the mysterious man together.

The movie as mentioned earlier does have a strong plot but it’s the other things that people have to be worried about. For instance the scenes have been choreographed so pathetically that the entire horror plot is lost whilst making this movie. There is absolutely no strong point in this movie as the movie is made from nothing original. The only saving grace of this movie would be the fact that Dylan Walsh has been good at the role of the Step Father but not on par to the original role played by Terry O Quinn. Also, apart from the actor, the background score is pretty good. It does capture the essence of a horror movie all though the other actors hardly make it look like a horror movie.
Remakes have been immensely successful in the past but also extremely dull. There are directors who want to remake a quality film and make the viewers associate with the remake the same way they did when they watched the movie earlier. Directors have to take note that remakes have to be used in order to relive something that was classic and not just capitalise on the brand and earn big bucks into their pockets.

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