After a few months in Psycho II, Norman Bates now meets three new people in is quite motel: a beautiful nun, an unemployed young man and a snooping reporter. Norman shows interest in the nun and hires the young man to take care of the motel while the reporter want to interview his past life. What will happen to Norman and his three new friends when things go wrong?
It has a cast of talented, self-effacing actors, who don't upstage the material, and an efficient screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue, who doesn't beat you over the head to prove that he has a sense of humor.
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
December 27, 2004
Much better than the second.
Variety Staff
Variety
June 18, 2008
The whole enterprise is dependent almost entirely upon self-referential incidents and attitudes for its effect, and it eventually becomes wearying.
Perkins tries to imitate Hitchcock's visual style, but most of the film is made without concern for style of any kind, unless it's the bludgeoning nonstyle of Friday the 13th.
