Psycho III (1986)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Anthony Perkins owns the character of Norman Bates. He could have made 20 sequels to Psycho and he would be fascinating in every second of every one of them. There is a scene where he is walking to a room at the motel and he thinks "mother" is there and the look on his face is priceless, it's a sort of bemused haze. The movie has elements of a dark comedy and ridiculous camp. There is a scene between Perkins and Jeff Fahey that is absolutely hysterical. Honestly, I'm not even sure how I feel about this movie. On one hand, I don't think it's good but, I find it very watchable. For me it exists in the bad/fun bad arena. Ultimately, I would recommend it to someone who wants to watch an actor own a character like few actors have ever owned a character. Have a few dark laughs and shake your head at the mismatched parts. Psycho 3 might just work for you.

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of the incredible original "Psycho" film, despised the very concept of sequels and refused to make even a single one during his film career. Movies like this are exactly why.For a basic plot summary, "Psycho III" sees Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) still running his hotel business and still harboring the embalmed corpse of Emma Spool, his supposed "real mother". When a young nun (Diana Scarwid) who bears a striking resemblance to Marion Crane needs a place to stay, Norman takes her in and clashes with "mother" once again.The strange thing about this movie is that, storyline-wise, it really isn't all that bad. Basically, it isn't just bad for bad's sake, and director Perkins does a great job of re-creating the continuity from "Psycho II" and making this film feel like part of the anthology.The problem, though, is that "Psycho III" doesn't know what kind of flick it is. It tries to be a slasher film for a while, but the overall Psycho narrative doesn't lend itself to that. It also tries to look at Bates' insanity from a new perspective, but only ends up muddying the waters even further. Plus, a religious aspect is introduced into the narrative, but doesn't accomplish anything in terms of character development.Thus, this seems to me to be a film that started off with great intentions, but quickly descended (production-wise) into a nightmare. A few moments are decent enough for the franchise fans to keep watching, but others will just find it stupid. This effort can easily be skipped in the series.

Anthony Perkins makes his directorial debut in this second sequel of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock horror classic Psycho and the third film of the Psycho film franchise entitled Psycho III.Perkins also stars and relives his role as Norman Bates together with Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey and Roberta Maxwell.The story happens one month after the events of Psycho II.Norman Bates still runs the famous Bates Motel with the corpse of Emma Spool just around the corner.He unexpectedly falls in love with a suicidal nun,who just came along to stay in the motel along with Duke Drifter.Meanwhile,a reporter tries to solve the disappearance of Emma Spool and comes to talk to Norman.Things turn weird when Norman is haunted by the body of Emma and starts slashing numerous people.While many consider it a weak sequel,I find it engaging and entertaining.It may not be as good as the Hitchcock original nor the second sequel Psycho II but I still find it worth the view.Perkins did a wonderful job in his directorial debut as we get to learn more about Norman particularly his psychology as a killer and the influence brought about by "Mother" the original killer.What is really new is the humor brought by it especially the relationship of Norman and Maureen Coyle,the suicidal nun and who has a striking resemblance to Marion Crane.Apparently,this brought interest to the viewer because it was the relationship that should have taken place between Norman and Marion Crane in the first film if the latter had not been killed.Aside from that,it was also interesting to see it now being a slasher flick especially with Norman now identified as the real killer,the dead corpse of his real mother now being the real influence it to his psychotic behavior and how Norman killed the numerous residents of the Bates Motel.In the end,the third film brought fruition of what the viewers thought should be happening in the first film. I would like to credit the screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue and Perkins for doing a wonderful addition to the Psycho franchise.

Norman Bates falls in love with a nun - which makes his "mother" jealous - who has visited the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. This is probably the dumbest info for a film ever there's so much going on in this film than just that you get Norman get accused that he killed a girl from a group of drunk people or even a much bigger backstory for him they even repeat the great ending of the film when he smiles and it's still creepy as hell also there's this big story with this reporter that tries to find what is going on. The Soundtrack mostly the theme is amazing and they used it many times and i'm glad they did i have to give a big congratulations to Anthony Perkins for directing the film many people judged it to be goofy and dumb and sure it has some of those moments for instance the love scene or the scene with the guitar smashed in the head of this dude it's does have problems but the pacing is much much better in this one and i think they did a really great job not one of the best movie franchises ever but definitely better than any Friday the 13th Film another Horror Franchise with a crazy dude and his mom.