Sean’s movie thoughts

The Stepfather is a suspense movie. Terry O’Quinm plays Jerry Blake, a real estate agent with a wife and daughter but he has a secret. He is obsessed with the idea of the perfect family and he marries into a family looking for the perfect family. However when his family fails him (as all real families must) he starts to look for a new family. The old family becomes something to dispose of and we will see him disposing of a family in the first scene. Terry O’Quinn is really good as Jerry. Jill Schoelen is good as his stepdaughter Stephanie who suspects there is something wrong and Shelley Hack is good as her mother. It is really scary when Jerry flips out when Stephanie is kissing her friend Paul (they nearly kissed earlier in the film).  The brother of one of Jerry’s previous victims is looking for him. He tries to get the local newspaper to reprint the story of one of Jerry’s previous killings and tries to get the cops to pursue Jerry. He is only partially successful. There ...

Popcorn is a fun horror movie. It is from 1991 and is about a film society at a small college putting on a horror film festival. They find a strange film.  A dangerous person connected to the strange film is stalking the festival and one of the film students. The films within the film are also fun. (There are three films within the film and they are in black and white.) Jill Schoelen stars as Maggie the film student who is stalked by the killer. She also has to contend with her boyfriend Mark. He is not a bad guy but they might be having problems. Mark is not a lucky man. The cast is good, even if a few members don’t get much screen time, and the makeup effects are good. It is not particularly bloody or gorey but it is creepy at times. This is not a classic but it is fun.