Steer away, Heard is nude in other films so watch them instead.

This is not a good film. It offers nothing new to the genre, and feels like it's trying to appeal more towards the teenage male by putting Amber Heard in a bikini for most of her scenes. However, it is also one of the most absurd, far-fetched thrillers I have seen recently, so it made for an entertaining 45 minutes. That was until boredom set in.

Pointless remake.

"a shabby substitute for its original." - Nick Schager

Mostly consists of mundane, everyday activities accompanied by generically tense chord strains.

New rule: every movie that I can't sit still and watch gets a zero.

This story spent an hour and twenty minutes of its hour and forty minute run time trying to build up tension. This would have been good if it had been attached to anything other than the most predictable and cliched thriller ending possible. Still, the acting was good and the tension was palpable. Just too bad it ended the way it did. Give the 80's version a try folks, its a cult classic for a reason.

I'm usually not one to complain about a cookie cutter plot, but this one didn't even attempt to step out of the box. It's fairly well shot and the acting is all fine, but there's just nothing special about it. Also, I'm pretty sure Amber Heard must've had an anti-clothes clause in her contract.

Everyone involved in this is just awful. It might be a great guilty pleasure if anyone who could actually act was in it.

The ex-husband and the stepfather were the same person.

Hahahaha! No....

Another forgettable and unneccesary remake of a movie that already stands alone as a guilty pleasure horror classic. Walsh cannot stand up to O'Quinn's performance in the original--skip this.

Bad Movie

horrible ending.

A predictable thriller, that plays out exactly how you think it will, but the cast manages to somehow make all the cliches seem real. The young actors Penn Badgely and Amber Heard have great chemistry through out which makes there characters seem real. It really shows us what can happen if we put our trust in the run people. Despite all the negative reviews I have read I still found this this film entertaining in for a horror flick. It succeds at doing what it was supposed to do which is thrill

Sure, it's a predictable story-nothing new here. And, some of the acting is suspect. But, the movie is well-shot and stylish (compared to other similar movies in it's genre). I watched the movie on dvd (for a redbox buck) and never got bored throughout. Keep in mind that the same people/reviewers giving "The Stepfather" such dismal ratings also rated "Paranormal Activity" very highly. hmmmmmmm. Forget negative ratings miming the opinions of "professional critics". Stepfather isn't THAT BAD!

How quickly everything comes together in the end is so ridiculous, worth the rental.

Almost an hour and a half of crap build up to a terrible pay off. It's flat out one of the most boring films you could possibly see. None of the acting in impressive, the Stepfather is terribly generic and it's full of generic as hell cliche's like cellphones hitting "low battery" as the film nears it's climax. I can't suggest watching this, even if you liked the original or horror in general. Skip it.

About what I expected. For once the PSI was way off, saying I would give this film a 25. There were some scary moments, and I actually thought the guy who played The Stepfather did a decent job, even though I'm the biggest John Locke fan in the world.

Even if you take away the fact that the trailer for this flick totally spills the beans - basically, if you watch the trailer, you've watched the movie - even if that's taken away and the trailer is viral and gives nothing away, the flick is as transparent as it gets. There's no suspense whatsoever, after the first five minutes you can essentially call it right to the finish. Unreliable characters that you can't get behind, predictable eye candy, and an antagonist that just fails. Poor effort.

Over-obvious suspense film, resurrecting the unctuous psycho from the 1987 original, tips its hand immediately and slows its predictable progress (to a nonsensical new ending) only to ogle the body of the husky-voiced sex doll, Amber Heard.

predictable, boring, with fake tightness and no real horror. even good actors didn't save this film from total failing.

The story has nothing special to offer for genre and it's obvious and predictable. The acting was almost accetable. But it was nice to see Sela Ward acting again; haven't seen her for a long time.

Half-mediocre remake of a mediocre horror flick.

Poor acting, weak story, no characters.

Total waste of time.

Horror is dead!!...isn´t ìt? Common prove me I´m wrong. The last good horror movie I saw was "Martyrs"..there are hundrets of those wanna be gory, bloody, thrilling "never seen this before" flicks, but at least the result is a low budget bullshit production like this insignificant crap. i´m tired of this genre. get lost

I feel like Nostradamus, I predicted everything that was going to happen before I even popped the DVD in.

I'm giving this a 35 instead of a 0 because me and my family had a great time laughing at the film.

The original film was no masterpiece, but it had a nice, taut buildup and a compelling performance from Terry Quinn, who played the restrained, brooding psychopath convincingly. Walsh isn't quite as compelling, his spaz-outs are more comical than scary. Also, it was a bit of a stretch to imagine someone being off the grid in 1987, but it's preposterous to imagine a sociopath living with a family for so long without photos/records in 2009.