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Psycho II <\/strong><\/em>(1983)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Richard Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Tom Holland,\u00a0<\/strong>based on characters created by Robert Bloch<\/strong> Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles<\/strong>, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Hugh Gillin, Claudia Bryar, Robert Alan Browne, Lee Garlington, Jill Carroll, Chris Hendrie, Tom Holland, Osgood Perkins\u00a0 <\/strong>and Dennis Franz.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: It’s 22 years later, and Norman Bates is coming home.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Twenty-two years have passed since the murders that made Norman Bates infamous have passed.\u00a0 Norman has spent that time in a mental institution.\u00a0 His therapist believes that Norman is now sane.\u00a0 Therefore a judge rules that Norman be set free.<\/p>\n Norman returns home with plans to re-open the Bates Motel.\u00a0 In the meantime, he takes a job at a local diner.\u00a0 When Mary, a waitress at the diner, suddenly becomes homeless, Norman offers her a place to stay.\u00a0 She reluctantly accepts.\u00a0 Not long after, Norman begins to get messages from his dead mother.<\/p>\n Norman begins to fear for his sanity and Mary’s safety.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Making a sequel to an Alfred Hitchcock classic is a tale, dangerous order.\u00a0 Psycho II<\/em> fills the bill better than you might expect.<\/p>\n The actor playing a young Norman Bates is Anthony Perkins’ son Osgood.<\/p>\n The original Bates house was able to be used for this sequel, but the hotel had to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n The scene where Norman plays the piano is actually Anthony Perkins playing.\u00a0 He was an accomplished pianist.<\/p>\n Robert Bloch’s novel PSYCHO II and the movie sequel tell different stories.<\/p>\n Critics praised Anthony Perkins and Meg Tilly’s on-screen chemistry.\u00a0 In reality, they didn’t get along.\u00a0 Perkins actually wanted her fired after filming was underway.\u00a0 Tilly called making the film the worst experience of her career.\u00a0 She didn’t attend the movie’s premiere.<\/p>\n Dennis Franz steals every scene he’s in.\u00a0 Franz could play a sleazy character with the best of them.<\/p>\n Psycho II (1983) <\/strong><\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n Psycho II (1983) Director:\u00a0 Richard Franklin Screenplay: Tom Holland,\u00a0based on characters created by Robert Bloch Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39066,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39065\/revisions\/39066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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