Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Psycho II
It's 22 years later, and Norman Bates is coming home.
1983 · 1h 53m · R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Richard Franklin
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Psycho II
Overview
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
Director and cast
- Richard Franklin Director
- Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
- Meg Tilly as Mary Samuels
- Vera Miles as Lila Loomis
- Robert Loggia as Dr. Bill Raymond
- Dennis Franz as Warren Toomey
- Hugh Gillin as Sheriff John Hunt
- Tom Holland as Deputy Norris
- Claudia Bryar as Miss Spool
- Lee Garlington as Myrna
- Robert Alan Browne as Ralph Statler
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
66%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Though far from a worthy successor to the original (but why make impossible demands?) the film clearly could have been much worse.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Scary and fun, it's as worthy a sequel as one might reasonably expect.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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