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Psycho 2

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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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This sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic is surprisingly good.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
10/20/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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.

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10/20/08
Variety Staff
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Variety
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Though far from a worthy successor to the original (but why make impossible demands?) the film clearly could have been much worse.

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10/20/08
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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No review available.

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04/17/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

No review available.

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02/18/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Scary and fun, it's as worthy a sequel as one might reasonably expect.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

No review available.

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09/21/05
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
International Press Academy

Not a bad sequel at all.

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09/09/05
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

No review available.

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07/08/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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06/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

The weakest of the series. Still has its fair share of scares.

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05/06/05
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
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03/25/05
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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03/24/05
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

[It's] a sequel that supports its predecessor instead of diminishes.

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12/04/04
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

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.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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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.

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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
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Jules Brenner
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09/26/03
Carol Cling
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Las Vegas Review-Journal

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08/21/03
John Esther
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Pasadena Weekly

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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