Wicked Stepmother

Jenny returns from a holiday to find that her widowed father, Sam, has remarried a mysterious woman named Miranda. Jenny grows suspicious that her new stepmother is in fact a witch, and her unease deepens when Miranda's daughter, Priscilla, arrives and draws Jenny's husband's attention toward herself. The two women settle into the family's life and seem to bring trouble with them. Jenny turns to a private detective, and with help from a suspended police officer the family tries to put a stop to the pair.

Larry Cohen wrote and directed this comedy with fantasy elements, made between A Return to Salem's Lot and The Ambulance in a run of films that also includes Black Caesar, It's Alive, Q and The Stuff. Bette Davis plays Miranda in one of the credited roles, heading a cast of 32 that features Colleen Camp as Jenny, Barbara Carrera as Priscilla, Lionel Stander as Sam, David Rasche as Steve Fisher and Laurene Landon as Vanilla. Robert Littman produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Larco Productions on a budget of about 3 million dollars.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 4 out of 10 from roughly 2,600 votes, and on TMDB it stands at 4.7 out of 10 from about 44 votes, the latter reflecting a much smaller group of users.