Our second John List title is Nelson McCormick's 2009 remake, *The Stepfather* starring Dylan Walsh and (often shirtless) Penn Badgley.
It's bigger and longer and gender swaps the teen character...but curiously doesn't do anything with the newfound male energy.
Plus: queer connections; questioning Walsh's casting; and joking about how 2000s era this film is.
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