History Film / PsychoII

''Psycho II'' (1983) is the first sequel to ''Film/{{Psycho}},'' starring Creator/AnthonyPerkinss as Norman Bates.

''Psycho II'' (1983) is the first sequel to ''Film/{{Psycho}},'' starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates.

* {{Expy}}: Toomey is essentially what Norman was in the original book. An overweight, alcoholic pervert.

** After She TookaLevelInJerkass, Lila becomes disturbingly similar to [[spoiler: Norma Bates. Both are selfish, judgmental EvilOldFolks who frequently abuse their children without any concern for anyone else who crosses their path.]]

* TooDumbToLive: A teenage couple actually breaks into the basement of a well-known SerialKiller so they could have sex.

* BadassGrandma: [[spoiler: Mrs. Spool, the nice old lady who works at a diner, was really the stealthy serial killer of the movie.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: Mrs. Emma Spool at the end. [[spoiler: She's crazy and ''not'' his mother.]]

** Mr. Toomey is an obnoxious jerk who belittles Norman for his mental issues.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Lila, Mr Toomey and Emma Spool]].
** [[spoiler: Miss Spool]] wasn't an asshole, she was sweet to Norman. However, given that she did indirectly cause the death of [[spoiler: Mary Loomis]] because of her killing spree she may qualify. And then there's what she did in ''PsychoIII''...

Norman is released from a mental institution after decades of incarceration. He is cured, but relatives of his victims conspire to drive him insane again, hoping to have him re-committed. Score composed by JerryGoldsmith. This is ''not'' based on Creator/RobertBloch's 1982 novel of the same name, which has a completely different plot which Creator/{{Universal}} flatly refused to film. Given that among other things it has a scene where many of the male movie stars of the day are portrayed as gay[[note]]It's actually shown to be a group of CampGay celebrity impersonators-- Bloch had to have one of his little jokes[[/note]] - not to mention the whole "Norman vanishes at an early stage before his fate is revealed towards the end of the book, and oh yeah he was killed" thing - you can see why.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Lila]], [[{{Jerkass}} Mr Toomey]] and [[EvilOldFolks Emma Spool]]]].

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: [[HeroAntagonist Lila]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Emma Spool]], though the latter isn't revealed to be a villain until the very end. Lila causes the main conflict, attempting to drive Norman insane and send him back to the hospital, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters no matter what cost]]. Emma Spool also complicates things for Norman, even though she claims to be trying to help him. She's the one who's been committing all the murders in the film and draws attention to Norman. Spool then kills Lila, which in turn gets Mary killed, completely driving Norman insane.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Norman went from an AffablyEvil SerialKiller into an {{adorkable]} SociallyAwkwardHero trying to live a normal life and make new friends.

* AllForNothing: By the end, ''everything'' meaningless in the end. [[spoiler: All our major female characters die failing to achieve anything in the story and Norman ends up returning to his villainous ways, negating all hope for him to change in the film.]]

** Miss Spool wasn't an asshole, she was sweet to Norman.

%%* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler: Mrs Spool.]]

* PsychoStrings: Bernard Hermann's legendary score is played as Marion Crane's murder is shown during the opening flashback. Jerry Goldsmith offers his own version as [spoiler:Lila Loomis is murdered.]]

''Psycho II'' (1983) is the first sequel to ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates.

Norman is released from a mental institution after decades of incarceration. He is cured but relatives of his victims conspire to drive him insane again, hoping to have him re-committed. Score composed by JerryGoldsmith. This is ''not'' based on Creator/RobertBloch's 1982 novel of the same name, which has a completely different plot which Creator/{{Universal}} flatly refused to film. Given that among other things it has a scene where many of the male movie stars of the day are portrayed as gay[[note]]It's actually shown to be a group of CampGay celebrity impersonators-- Bloch had to have one of his little jokes[[/note]] - not to mention the whole "Norman vanishes at an early stage before his fate is revealed towards the end of the book, and oh yeah he was killed" thing - you can see why.

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: [[HeroAntagonist Lila]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Emma Spool]], though the latter isn't revealed to be a villain until the very end. Lila causes the main conflict, attempting to drive Norman insane and send him back to the hospital, no matter what cost. Emma Spool also complicates things for Norman, even though she claims to be trying to help him. She's the one who's been committing all the murders in the film and draws attention to Norman. Spool then kills Lila, which in turn gets Mary killed, completely driving Norman insane.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Lila and Emma Spool, though the latter isn't revealed to be a villain until the very end. Lila causes the main conflict, attempting to drive Norman insane and send him back to the hospital, no matter what cost. Emma Spool also complicates things for Norman, even though she claims to be trying to help him. She's the one who's been committing all the murders in the film and draws attention to Norman. Spool then kills Lila, which in turn gets Mary killed, completely driving Norman insane.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Norman finds out that his motel is being exploited by his Manager Toomey for prostitution and drugs since he's been away, he fires him. When Toomey threatens to have him locked up, Norman counters with blackmail. [[spoiler: Toomey dies anyway, just not by Norman's hands.]]

* HeroAntagonist: Lila again and briefly [[spoiler: her daughter Mary]]. Lila however, is an interesting case. While she played the role straight in the first film, in the second film her motive is a result of RevengeBeforeReason, as she tries avenge her sister's death, while here methods such as driving the cured Norman insane again to have him recommitted makes her border on being a WellIntentionedExtremist, but being amoral in her actions cause her to border on HeWhoFightsMonsters. While, [[spoiler: Mary]], is in on her scheme, she is more of a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist as she was able to sympathize with Norman in contrast to the Lila's staunchly stubborn InspectorJavert.

Norman is released from a mental institution after decades of incarceration. He is cured but relatives of his victims conspire to drive him insane again, hoping to have him re-committed. Score composed by JerryGoldsmith. This is ''not'' based on Creator/RobertBloch's 1982 novel of the same name, which has a completely different plot which Universal flatly refused to film. Given that among other things it has a scene where many of the male movie stars of the day are portrayed as gay[[note]]It's actually shown to be a group of CampGay celebrity impersonators-- Bloch had to have one of his little jokes[[/note]] - not to mention the whole "Norman vanishes at an early stage before his fate is revealed towards the end of the book, and oh yeah he was killed" thing - you can see why.

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