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Summary: A surprisely good sequel
Review: Psycho 3 is more of a remake of the original film then a sequel and it's way better then the 1998 remake.Anthony Perkins returns to his most famous role of Norman Bates and makes his directorial debut in the second sequel to Hitchcock's classic masterpiece.In this one,a rehabilitated Norman tries to help out a disturbed young woman named Maureen Coyle who looks so much like Marion Crane who was the shower victim in the original film and gives a job to a drifter named Daune Duke(just call him Duke).It isn't long before Mother starts up her old ways again and pretty soon the bodies start to pile up in the swamp behind the Bates Motel again.What I think makes Psycho 3 an entertaining sequel is the dark humor in it.When it's all said and done,it's a good sequel to Hitchcock's masterpiece.
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Summary: PSYCHO 3: The Most Shocking Of Them All!
Review: PSYCHO 3 picks up right where PSYCHO 2 left off and the Bates Motel is back in buisness. This time, not only does Anthony Perkins reprise his role as Norman Bates, he also directs this film and it is his first directing debut. The story follows Norman as he attempts to have a relationship with a young woman who looks alot like Marion Crane (the woman who was stabbed in the shower in the original film). Norman also gives a job to a guitar-playing drifter as the assistant manager to running his motel. It isn't long though before Mother starts to interfere in Norman's relationship, and soon bodies begin to pile up in the swamp behind the Bates Motel. All in all, this is another great sequel follow-up to Alferd Hitchcock's original, even though this one is a bit more violent and sexually explicit, there's also some dark humor that makes this sequel more interesting and unique.
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Summary: Still going strong
Review: "Psycho III" takes place a few weeks after part II ended. Norman is as crazy as ever, still talking to 'Mother'. But now he is trying to help suicidial ex-nun Maureen Coyle (Diane Scarwid) and thug guitarist Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey) while trying to aviod a nosey reporter. Well, it's part three, and it really has nothing new to add to the formula. But dose have dark humor and some grisly violence. Anthony Perkins directed this entry, and he did a competant job. My favorite scene was when Norman leaves a hospital room and closes the door into his own room, it was such a smooth transition that I never noticed until the door was closed; it was great and I loved it. Norman Bates is still a boy trapped in a man's body, trying to do the right thing but still obaying 'Mother'. Scarwid is ok as the doubting nun, good but not great. Fahey's theif was cool, a kind of strung out James Dean. "Psycho III" just not great, but it is still very good for a part three in a series.
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Summary: Well made directorial debut from Anthony Perkins.
Review: After successful sequel in 1983. Screenwriter-Charles Edward Pogue(The 1986 Remake of The Fly, Dragonheart) wrote this darkly humour shocker. Anthony Perkins did a good job, directing his first movie. It has some good moments like Duane(Played by Jeff Fahey) and Norman fighting in the motel room and also teffic suspenseful scene in the swamp. It also has a good music score by Carter Burwell(Fargo, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich). The only problem with this one, is a bit selazy, a little chessy and something annoying(The reporter, played by Roberta Maxwell, she`s a bugger in this film). Some of the death scene(Something out of Friday The 13th Films are Pretty Good). Diana Scarwid did give a good performance as Maureen Coyle, as a troubled, navie young woman-who try to help Norman Bates and Fahey performance as Daune Duke- is probably as more sick and more crazy than Norman ever was.Is a good thing, some of the dark humour is funny, at times-it really works in certain scenes. it has some good lines from Perkins and also he re-create some of the moment from Psycho. Quality from Goodtimes DVD is good, it has good non-anamorphic Widescreen(1.85:1) transer and Dolby Surround is Impressive. Grade:B+.
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Summary: Still going strong
Review: "Psycho III" takes place a few weeks after part II ended. Norman is as crazy as ever, still talking to 'Mother'. But now he is trying to help suicidial ex-nun Maureen Coyle (Diane Scarwid) and thug guitarist Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey) while trying to aviod a nosey reporter. Well, it's part three, and it really has nothing new to add to the formula. But dose have dark humor and some grisly violence. Anthony Perkins directed this entry, and he did a competant job. My favorite scene was when Norman leaves a hospital room and closes the door into his own room, it was such a smooth transition that I never noticed until the door was closed; it was great and I loved it. Norman Bates is still a boy trapped in a man's body, trying to do the right thing but still obaying 'Mother'. Scarwid is ok as the doubting nun, good but not great. Fahey's theif was cool, a kind of strung out James Dean. "Psycho III" just not great, but it is still very good for a part three in a series.
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Summary: Lunatick Psycho-Sexual Norman isn't interesting anymore
Review: I'm a diehard Tony Perkins fans, but even that doesn't make me enjoy this garbage any better. I hated the way Tony added sexuality to the Psycho franchise. In Psycho 3, you will see more breasts and sex scenes than you cared too. And the language was almost x-rated for me (vibrators & "getting off" are mentioned in the film). Even Norman starts to get anxious for Maureen after they both get drunk. There was too much violence also. Too much blood, and stabbings, and throat cuttings. The beauty of the original PSYCHO (1960), was that everything was subtle. No nudity, language, or even violence. The shower scene never showed Janet Leigh getting stabbed. This film was also too dark. Norman, mother, murder, mental illness was pushed too far, and you can only take so much from a movie. The only good thing was the music, by Carter Burwell. The music was just as good as the original.
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Summary: Norman is back... again!
Review: I really don't understand why some people attacked this film. Picking up where part II left off, Norman attempts to help a disturbed woman and a drifter. Meanwhile a nosy reporter is in town trying to dig into Norman's past. Anthony Perkins directed Psycho III with a touch of black comedy. A little gorier than the previous instalments, includes first rate soundtrack.
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Summary: All you need to know: Anthony Perkins directs Norman Bates
Review: "Psycho II" was a surprisingly good sequel to the classic Hitchcock film and the same is true of 1986's "Psycho III." Richard Franklin, who directed "Psycho II," had developed a friendship with Hitchcock towards the end of the master's life and could be trusted to have the appropriate amount of respect towards the original characters and story. The same came certainly be said for the director of "Psycho III," Anthony Perkins. One of the things that made "Psycho II" work was the idea that Norman Bates was now a sympathetic figure. We know that he was abused by his mother, so when he is released from the mental institution with a clean bill of health we are rooting for him. But the fates conspired against him and it became clear poor Norman is a figure in a Greek tragedy. Perkins understands that key idea, both as an actor and a director. There is a moment when he finds a note in the mansion from his mother, tell him to meet her in Cabin 12. Norman knows that his mother is long past being able to actually write anything, so as he dutifully heads towards the Motel all the horrible possibilities play out on his face. From "Fear Strikes Out" to "Psycho" and beyond, Perkins has been a master of portraying inner demons. that is the real secret of Norman Bates, and one of the reasons that "Psycho III" works as a movie: Norman is not a mad-dog killer, a wholesale slasher like the amoral villains of the Dead Teenager Movies. He is at war with himself. He is divided. He, Norman Bates, wants to do the right thing, to be pleasant and quiet and pass without notice. But also inside of him is the voice of his mother, fiercely urging him to kill. It suddenly dawns on me that the theme of "Psycho III" has been wonderfully realized in a more recent movie, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," in the scene where Gollum and Smeagol have their argument. Carrying off such things is difficult (compare it with the same scene between Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin in "Spider-Man"). The plot of "Psycho III" picks up relatively soon after the end of the previous film. Maureen Coyle (Diane Scarwid), a young novice at a nearby convent blames herself for an older nun falling to her death. Soon she is getting a ride to the Bates Motel with scuzzy Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey), the new night clerk. For once it looks like Norman will be able to turn off the "Vacancy" sign because lots of people want to spend the night there, including an investigative reporter out to do a story of poor Norman. At this point you have the stage set for a standard slasher movie, but Perkins steadfastly refuses to go the expected route. If there is anything we knew going into this film, it was that the director totally understands the main character. Charles Edward Pogue wrote the script for this film, but I have to believe that Perkins had considerably input because there are just too many little things put into this film that I have to believe come from an intimate understanding of the character of Norman Bates. Perkins is also smart enough to know in his directorial debut to go out his way not to invite comparisons to Hitchcock, although he does have a few moments where his sense of macabre humor gets to go a bit farther, thanks to the R-rated world of modern movies. This movie is not "Psycho," but then it never tried to be, and that is why it ultimately works on its own terms.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE SUCKS!
Review: IN THIS SECOND SEQUEL TO THE CLASSIC ''PSYCHO'', A GUILT-RIDDEN HITCHIKER GETS A ROOM AT THE BATES MOTEL. SOON, NORMAN BEGINS TO HAVE A CRUSH ON HER. THIS IS DEFINITELY WHERE THE SERIES SLOWED DOWN. THIS MOVIE WAS A STRAIGHT-UP DISASTER. AS ALWAYS, ANTHONY PERKINS IS INTERESTING AS THE PSYCHOTIC NORMAN BATES, BUT THE PLOT IS VERY CORNY AND THE MOVIE IS JUST UN-TOLERABLE. I FEEL EXTREMELY SORRY FOR ALL THE PSYCHO FANS THAT'VE WASTED THEIR TIME ON THIS PIECE OF TRASH.
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Summary: An Ok movie in The Psycho Series!
Review: Psycho III is not as good as the original Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh or Psycho II starring Anthony Perkins and Meg Tilly but it has it's moments and Anthony Perkins who I believe directed this movie is always great as Norman Bates and I like Diana Scarwid who plays an emotionally troubled young woman named Maureen Coyle who resembles Marian Crane the victim played in the original movie by Janet Leigh. Not my favorite Psycho movie but it's ok and would probably be an ok horror movie to watch on Halloween.
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