Psycho II
by Richard Franklin
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Actor: Anthony Perkins, Dennis Franz, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Vera MilesDirector: Richard Franklin
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Editor: Andrew London
Producer: Bernard Schwartz
Producer: Hilton A. Green
Writer: Robert Bloch
Writer: Tom Holland
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Psycho II
Movie Review: Oh why not.
Summary: 5 Stars
As far as I know there's never been a satisfactory account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Vera Miles, and he is sometimes said to have hardened his heart against her when her pregnancy forced her to drop out of the lead role in VERTIGO. I wonder if any film fans regret that Vera Miles did not play Madeleine and Judy in the San Francisco-set classic--I always have loved Kim Novak in the part. And Vera Miles' work in actual Hitchcock productions like THE THIRD MAN, INCIDENT AT A CORNER and the original PSYCHO, don't convince me that she was a glamorous leading lady type. John Ford too had a weakness for her, casting her in two of his greatest films, but again we never think of Miles as one of John Ford's repertory company. She's just serviceable as far as I'm concerned, and yet she does give a remarkable ballsy performance in Richard Franklin's PSYCHO II, bringing back her original Lila Crane character and showing how the experience of being the sister of a murder victim well, warped her I guess.
We learn that Lila married John Gavin (wow, too bad they couldn't have brought him back too), which if you ask me is pretty sick considering that Sam was actually having an affair with Marion right up until the day they died. Her husband, Lila now snaps, is "dead." (I wonder if there's a story there!) Did they have any children? Well, I won't say because that might spoil part of the movie for you.
Franklin's sequel is a respectable "stab" at PSYCHO greatness and benefits strongly from the contrast in Norman's world from the original black and white to the color of the early 1980s; everything seems different to Norman, who refuses to open up the motal again and instead takes a job as a short order cook in a diner under some sort of "liberal" ex-con rehabilitation program. Immediately he starts getting hassled by curious serial killer haters, including Dennis Franz who has turned the Bates Motel into a swingers paradise while Norman has been in jail.
The "real mother" plot comes out of left field if you ask me, but that is the only weakness in the film--oh, and also the way the screenwriters make the relationship between Meg Tilly and Norman so coyly chaste. What was that all about? Wouldn't it have humanized Norman immeasurably if he could have had a real affair with a real woman? You can tell "Mery" (the waitress played by Meg Tilly) would have . . . Is the idea that being the son of Mrs. Bates turned Norman against women? Meg Tilly, of course, is the 1980s' greatest actress and her leaving films for writing is a tragic loss to the cinema, and this is one of her greatest parts. Vera Miles is still alive too, the two of them should come back in a PSYCHO V, sort of an AUTUMN SONATA in which I would write and direct them in an eternal round of accusations and crumpled dreams.
Summary of Psycho II
Norman bates has finally been judged mentally sound and released from the mental institution where he has been for 22 years. Lila loomis the sister of marion crane who was murdered 22 years before protests fiercely over his release. The murders start happening again. But this time it isnt norman..Or is it? Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/26/2006 Starring: Anthony Perkins Tom Holland Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R Director: Richard FranklinHorror DVD Video
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