This sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic is surprisingly good.
Psycho 2 (1983)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:15
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Norman Bates is coming home after being released from the mental institution where he has spent the last 22 years. His plan is to renovate the old Bates Motel, and reopen it for business.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia
Director: Richard Franklin
Director: Richard Franklin
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
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Reviews for Psycho 2
Director Richard Franklin deftly keeps the suspense and tension on high while dolling out dozens of shock-of-recognitions shots drawn from the audience's familiarity with Psycho.
Though far from a worthy successor to the original (but why make impossible demands?) the film clearly could have been much worse.
Scary and fun, it's as worthy a sequel as one might reasonably expect.
It is a craftsman-like piece of filmmaking with a suitably flaky performance by Perkins, but it isn't really a sequel to Psycho. It continues the story, but not the spell.
That it's about as chilly a movie as ever delighted the mass market is beside the point, in view of its exuberantly macabre craftsmanship.
There are one or two effective surprises, but this still feels like the kind of sequel which should have been left alone.
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