It should surprise no one that horror master Stephen King counts several horror films among his all-time favorites, with seven on a list of eight he disclosed to the British Film Institute firmly in the genre (although the eighth, Steven Spielberg's Duel, has a horror element to it). What's interesting, but not all that surprising either, is that the movies on his list lean toward more cerebral fare, like the excellent The Changeling, as opposed to blood-splattered spectacle. A prime example on that list is 1987's The Stepfather, a film with a seemingly simple premise, about a seemingly simple, harmless man. Yet "simple" and "harmless" fare doesn't catch the attention of King, and The Stepfather is anything but. As King described it, "While we’re talking about terrifying men who come from nowhere, there’s The Stepfather, with Terry O'Quinn as the murderous (but charming) psycho looking for a family to love him."
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