Shelley Hack

  • Joseph Ruben – The Stepfather (1987)

    1981-1990HorrorJoseph RubenThrillerUnited Kingdom

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    Terry O’Quinn plays The Stepfather in this intelligent, unsettling chiller. We’d tell you O’Quinn’s character name, but he has so many. You see, O’Quinn has been a stepfather many times over, romancing and marrying widowed women in several different states. After each wedding, everything is blissful — at least, until O’Quinn’s new wife and kids fail to measure up to his notions of perfection. Then he kills them en masse, and moves on to his next victims. Shelley Hack and Jill Schoelen co-star as O’Quinn’s latest wife and stepdaughter, who prove to be yet another disappointment to him. An adroit witches’ blend of Ozzie & Harriet and Psycho, The Stepfather was scripted by suspense veteran Donald E. Westlake. A lesser sequel, Stepfather 2, followed in 1989.Read More »

  • Bill Persky – Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983)

    1981-1990Bill PerskyCrimeDramaUSA

    This made-for-TV sequel to the 1977 theatrical film “Looking For Mr. Goodbar” follows a New York City detective’s quest to find the murderer of a schoolteacher.Read More »

  • John Carl Buechler – Troll (1986)

    1981-1990CanadaFantasyHorrorJohn Carl Buechler

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    An evil troll, Torok, the transformed state of the ex-husband of an old friendly witch named Eunice St. Clair, has chosen her apartment building to be the heart of the restoration of the world he once knew. To do this he uses an Emerald ring, and takes possession of a little girl named Wendy, whose brother Harry immediately suspects something wrong. Torok, often in the form of the little girl, goes into each occupant’s apartment, hideously transforming people into plant pods.Read More »

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