Psychose III

Original title: Psycho III

1986
16
1h 33m

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Norman Bates falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. Meanwhile, "Mother" is still watching.Norman Bates falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. Meanwhile, "Mother" is still watching.Norman Bates falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. Meanwhile, "Mother" is still watching.

Director
- Anthony Perkins
Writers
- Charles Edward Pogue
- Robert Bloch
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

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Director
- Anthony Perkins
Writers
- Charles Edward Pogue
- Robert Bloch
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
In an interview with American Movie Classics just before his death, Anthony Perkins admitted he was not up to the task of directing this film, feeling his technical knowledge to be too limited.

Goofs
When the reporter Tracy is shown Mrs. Spool's apartment, the manager tells her that the police have already paraded through the apartment. Yet there is mail and a notepad by the phone and magazines with many phone numbers on the covers. It is inconceivable that the police did not take these items in order to get answers to Mrs. Spool's disappearance, especially since one of the phone numbers was for Bates Motel, obviously linking Norman to her.

Quotes
Duane Duke: [to Maureen] Stupid bitch! You could have been comin' instead of goin'!

Alternate versions
In the initial Ontario theatrical and video release, the throat slitting was censored both in its initial depiction and the flashback. The cuts were waived for the 2005 DVD edition and the classification was reduced from R to 14A.

Connections
Edited from Psychose II (1983)

Soundtracks
The Scream Of Love
Music by Carter Burwell
Written by Steve Bray & David Sanborn
Performed by Carter Burwell, Steve Bray, & David Sanborn
MCA Records

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Featured review

You can't get better than the original, but you can stand on your own as a good film

Psycho 3 is better than the sequel, which I liked very much, but still suffers in comparisons to the original masterpiece. Now, this sequel is much more close in spirit to the original, which is a great thing. It takes elements from the first film and fashions an almost "copycat" story, but then surprises you when you see where it goes.

Anthony Perkins also improves his performance from part two, but still nothing beats his legendary performance from the original. I hate to be comparing it so much to the first two, but with sequels it's hard not to. Perkins is gripping here with much more to work with than he was given in the sequel.

Perkins also directed the film. He does a fantastic job. This is definitely the scariest of the three, but then again the most up-to-date, too. Maybe that's why it feels spiritually guided by the original; 7.5