With Norman Bates judged sane and released from mental hospital 22 years after the Crane shower murder, things revert to abnormal at the old Gothic house: Norma

Everyone involved seems somewhat confused over what a sequel to Hitchcock’s masterpiece could possibly be; if ever a film definitively ended, it was Psycho. Director Richard Franklin (Road Games) and writer Tom Holland (Class of ’84) find a tentative solution in taking Hitchcock’s psychiatric metaphors literally: for much of its length, the film is a […]

The first thing is to put Alfred Hitchcock's original "Psycho" (1960) right out of your mind. There will never be another movie like it, and no sequel could possibly capture its unique charms. If you've seen "Psycho" a dozen times and can recite the shots in the shower scene by heart, "Psycho II" is just not going to do it for you.

Read the Empire Movie review of Psycho II. Surprisingly, even after waiting 20 years, they managed to turn out a smart, darkly-comic thriller...

Norman Bates gets out of the funny house and reacquaints himself with the tedium of a day job. It doesn’t go well.

Psycho II is an impressive, 23-years-after followup to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense classic.

Richard Franklin’s follow-up to the Hitchcock classic is a chilling horror in its own right.