MICHAEL Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful h

MICHAEL Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David.

As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?

Along with his girlfriend Kelly, his father Jay, and Susan's friends, Michael slowly starts to piece together the mystery of the man who is set to become his stepfather, but they may be too late in getting to the truth.

As people who realise of the inadequacies of David's story start mysteriously dying or disappear systematically, Michael is convinced his soon-to-be stepfather is behind them.

THE STEPFATHER (15) is a remake of a 1987 thriller.

Penn Badgley stars as Michael, with Nip/Tuck's Dylan Walsh as David.