When Maureen is lying dead on the floor, and Norman kneels over her, we can see her eyes move a little.
Despite severe wounds to her wrists, Maureen is shown without bandages or even scars, mere days after being admitted and quickly released from the hospital.
When Maureen goes to see Norman at home for the last time, she asks him a question while they are at the top of the stairs.
We hear Norman answer her, but his mouth never moves.
Close examination of the newspaper on Norman's kitchen table near the beginning of the film ("Emma Spool still missing") reveals that identical random paragraphs of text are repeated in adjacent articles.
When the flashback of Norman and Mrs.
Spool is shown, we see Norman hit her on the back of the head with a shovel.
As he does this, we see the shovel wiggle up and down, indicating it is a prop.
When Duke's girlfriend is struggling with the locked ice machine, we see Norman walk past her to unlock it.
But we never hear nor see him actually unlock it.
He just lifts the lid.
When Norman & Maureen return from the restaurant, it is raining.
They walk out of the cab, and get soaking wet.
Moments later they go into Maureen's room, and in the next scene Maureen's hair is dry.
On arrival back from the restaurant, the light in Mrs Bates' bedroom is on.
However, when Maureen looks towards it and sees the figure at the window, the light is off.
When Norman makes his beeline to Duke's cabin in search of his mother, it is still daylight (albeit cloudy and gloomy) A moment later when Norman opens the door, it is dark outside.
During the beginning of the film, it is raining very heavily.
However, when the grounds around the Bates Motel is shown, the ground is extremely dry.
When Duke first arrives at The Bates Motel, he is talking to Norman at his car while holding keys between his teeth.
Duke says "You live up there, eh?" but his lips never move.
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 1986 | USA | USD 12,808,730 |
| 20 July 1986 | USA | USD 11,741,350 |
| 13 July 1986 | USA | USD 9,502,250 |
| 7 July 1986 | USA | USD 5,047,151 |
| USA | USD 14,481,606 | |
| Germany | USD 1,917,345 |
| Date | Area | Gross | Screens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 1986 | USA | USD 3,238,401 |
| Date | Area | Gross | Screens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 1986 | USA | USD 559,150 | 530 |
| 20 July 1986 | USA | USD 1,048,800 | 760 |
| 13 July 1986 | USA | USD 2,613,660 | |
| 7 July 1986 | USA | USD 3,238,401 |
Anthony Perkins directed this second sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's seminal film, which sees him reprising the role of Norman Bates and falling in love with a suicidal nun (Diana Scarwid) who he thinks is the reincarnation of Marion Crane, his victim from the original movie. Jeff Fahey plays a sleazy drifter Norman hires to manage the Bates Motel, and ends up having his head bashed in with his prized guitar.
The Norman Bates storyline is yet-again milked for the tiny remnants that it has left. The script is dreadful and has a flow of lines that would only seem good if a 14-year-old was having their first crack at writing.
If Psycho II was everything you could expect from a horror movie, the term that immediately comes to mind regarding Psycho III is "stagnant."Anthony Perkins both directs and stars in this film as the famous Norman Bates, and he absolutely tackles the role with everything he's got, but it's different this time around.
This starts out like Agnes of God, and ends up like a Wes Craven blood-fest. I have to say I like it.
"Psycho III" was the second of three sequels to the original Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece. Star Anthony Perkins took over the director's chair for this one.
In PSYCHO III, a nun (Diana Scarwid) arrives at the Bates motel after a traumatic event. Once checked in, she undergoes what she believes to be a religious experience.
The state of mind you watch a film in makes all the difference in the world. This is something I've faced quite a bit recently when revisiting old movies being released on Blu-ray for the first time.
Anthony Perkins both returns as star and first-time director of this continuation of the story, which begins with a beautiful former nun named Maureen(played by Diana Scarwid) who flees from her convent, and hits the road, only to find her way to the Bates motel, still run by Norman, who takes her in. He finds himself attracted to her, since she reminds him of Marion Crane, which leads to a new batch of murders...
No one expected a 2nd Psycho film, and no one could have predicted a 3rd. While I am a great fan of the 2nd film in the franchise, this is easily the weakest in what never should've been a series to begin with.
