I was never old enough to watch The Stepfather movies when they came out, but I definitely remembered the covers. Now the first film had a different box art than the theatrical poster, and despite the overall mediocrity of both, it sold incredibly well on video. The third film had a much more striking image, with the bloody shovel concealing a bottom lit face. For an impressionable kid, though, nothing beat the cover for the second film. I didn’t care about the first film – I wanted to see that second! Who cares if the little girl and the dog aren’t even in the movie? Who cares if Terry O’Quinn doesn’t really even brandish a knife throughout? It was that image of the unstoppable father with the T-1000 eyes, and then that bloody 2 (a trend for sequels that has sadly fallen out of favor) that just created such an impression. By the poster alone, Stepfather 2: Make Room for Daddy should be awesome. Synapse seems to think so, re-releasing Miramax’s initial 2003 special edition with even more bonus features. Should we make room for daddy?
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