Stepfather 2: Make Room For Daddy

When last we saw the Stepfather, he had been fatally shot and stabbed. But, like HALLOWEEN's Michael Myers, Jerry Blake is back again, although this sequel to Joseph Ruben's well-received THE STEPFATHER (1987) is far more welcome than the umpteenth installment of the "Friday the Thirteenth" or "Halloween" series. Directed by Jeff Burr, STEPFATHER 2 follows Jerry (Terry O'Quinn, whose lead performance was so riveting in the original) as he escapes from a psychiatric hospital and, drawing on his years of psychoanalysis, becomes a family counselor in idyllic Palm Meadows--calling himself Dr. Gene Clifford. There he sets his sights on divorcee Carol Grayland (Meg Foste...