SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Can you keep a good stepfather down, despite him being shot and stabbed in the heart multiple times? Of course not. That's why even if Terry O'Quinn isn't coming back, his character definitely will in this made for HBO movie.Yes, Gene Clifford has survived being stabbed with a clawhammer in the heart and went right back into the same mental institution in Puget Sound. And he escapes it all over again, finding a back alley surgeon to change his appearance, all with no anesthesia, before killing that very same doctor.Oh yeah - now the stepfather is played by Robert Wightman, who is best known for taking over the role of John-Boy Walton from Richard Thomas.Now, he's Keith Grant, a gardener who dresses up as the Easter Bunny for a church party. There, he meets Christine Davis (Priscilla Barnes from TV's Three's Company) and her son Andy, who has been in a wheelchair since an accident. He even takes care of Christine's psycho ex, Mark, by killing him with a shovel. Once that body is buried in the garden, Keith is free to marry Christine and Andy goes away to stay with his dad, Steve.It turns out that Christine can't have children any longer, so Keith begins courting another woman, Jennifer (Season Hubley, Vice Squad) and her son Nicholas. His boss totally picks up on this, so that guy has to die.Andy is back home and he's well versed in true crime. So he starts researching Keith and his history. He's surprised when his new dad misidentifies him as Nicholas, so the typical stepfather behavior has started as he begins forgetting his identity and killing anyone who learns the truth, like that troublemaking priest!Will the stepfather find true love? Will Andy walk again? Can even the stepfather survive falling into a woodchipper? All of these questions and probably a few more will be answered by the end of this movie.If you watch this movie without looking at the screen, you may think that Terry O'Quinn is still in it. The voice is very close. But once you watch it, the acting isn't as good. In fact, Wightman is quite wooden, particularly in a sex scene with Barnes where she's sweaty and super into it. I don't mean that as a pun. But sure, you can take it that way.Andy is also the exact opposite - overacted to the extreme and given to fits of screaming. There's a near hilarious scene where they attempt to play football together that had me laughing in a completely inappropriate way. At least there's plenty of gore to make up for all the cheese.

The only reason that i kept watching was that it is a ridiculous bad film!The only thing horrible was the camera-work! And maybe the unbelievable story. Or the over the top acting. I kept laughing in disbelief over so much stupidity!Watch this only as an example how to do things the bad way in movie-making. Or it is just a waste of your time.

Everyone says that Stepfather 1 was a very good film , stepfather 2 was a good film and Stepfather 3 is very big trash ! I don´t think so ! OK , Stepfather 3 is sometimes very boring but the Gore-Effects in this movie are very bloody and were made very good ! So you can watch this movie 1 or 2 times and you will have fun with it !

I get a kick out of these Stepfather movies. One minute the wife is this `Oh I'm so in love with you Henry/Jerry/Bill/Keith etc'. Then the next minute after he snaps she's calling him a seven letter word beginning with a B meaning an illegitimate child. This installment doesn't have Terry O'Quinn and it's not the same without him. The I just wanna be a family man gets a super duper facial make over from an underground plastic surgeon then finds another single mom with child and we're off and running. Not as good as the first two. Robert Wightman just didn't seem to be able to project that Psycho demeanor that Terry O'Quinn was so good at. As many times that the Stepfather had been stabbed, shot, hit over the head etc. you'd think that he would have wised up and said `This time I'm gonna get a girl who doesn't already have a child and try it that way for a change.'