Being a tremendous admirer of the first two installments of the Psycho franchise, I was really looking forward to seeing the third one. Anthony Perkins commitment to the character is still there and he always has a magnetic screen presence. However, his debut as a director falls flat and the movie looks like an uninspired rehash of the first two. Apart from Norman Bates, the other characters are bland and I just couldn’t get the chills at all in the kill scenes. The third act gets quite over the top and the final scene didn’t make a lot of sense, ruining the climax a little bit.
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