Dylan Walsh, who’s been playing doctor on Nip/Tuck since 2003, looks like he could use a few stitches himself right about now. Fake flesh hangs from his neck, and he’s a bit bloodied up. He’s playing the title character in The Stepfather, the upcoming horror film that reboots a cult classic from 1987.
Much like the original (which starred Lost‘s Terry O’Quinn as daddy dearest—who, according to producer Mark Morgan, declined a cameo role), the new movie centers on a sociopathic killer who blends into broken families. When the new wife and kids inevitably disappoint him, he slaughters them and moves on to the next unsuspecting household.
SCI FI Wire was on set at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif., a few weeks ago during the filming of The Stepfather for a scene in which Walsh embodies wicked wedder David Harris… and leaves a few bodies lying around.
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