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Director: Guy Magar
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From Time Out Film Guide
This second sequel is far better than one might expect from the end of Stepfather II, when the titular psycho was being butchered and battered by various members of his latest family. Miraculously surviving, he opens proceedings here in a particularly gruesome bout of plastic surgery, without anaesthetic and performed by a drunken surgeon. He then fixes himself up with another widow and child in no time, and is on his beastly traditional-values way again. The reason for the plastic surgery, of course, is that the excellent Terry O'Quinn has been replaced. Wightman, with that prissy, scary, whiny voice makes a good fist of it, and seems more barmy than ever. The violence is genuinely gory, and climaxes with a death in a garden threshing-machine that surely defies all efforts at restorative surgery.Author: SGr
Cast & crew
Director: Guy Magar
Producer: Guy Magar, Paul Moen
Cast: Rob Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, David Tom, John Ingle, Season Hubley full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 105 mins
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