I wish that people would wise up to just how good this movie is. Considering Perkins was a debut director, this film is simply breathtaking in its visual style.
I implore those with an open mind to watch this and prepare yourself to be surprised. This is the best of the series. By a long shot.
I have to agree with you on something. This is a brilliant film, and actually, there are a lot of metaphors in it. It is one of the best horror films of the 1980's. It is visually stunning and actually you can even compare and contrast love and lust in the film. Yes, underrated and an excellent film, without question. Joseph at [email protected]
shareI also agree. This one's my favorite, although I love the original and Psycho II as well. It's such a sad movie, too. I think Perkins directed this with a really clever edge, and I like his attention to detail... Like putting Mary's book, "In the Belly of the Beast", buried under some dust in the backyard. And the score is really excellent, too. I can't believe Universal tore down the Bates house...
Part IV and the remake suck, although the present-day scenes with Perkins in Part IV are pretty good.
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I'm so glad to hear people talking positive about this movie. I saw it in the theater opening night, I was 19 years old. We were shown the original Psycho in the school auditorium during the last week of junior high and I fell in love with it. I was so excited for each of the sequels. I'm a huge fan. I loved that Psycho III was directed by Perkins and I also think he did a fine job. I enjoyed its seedier side. I did not care for part iv however and wished it would have ended with part three.
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I too think this film is very underrated. I especially enjoyed the nice touches of pitch-black gallows humor. The sequence with the corpse in the ice chest is quite funny in an admittedly sick sort of way. Moreover, the relationship between Norman Bates and troubled nun Maureen Coyle is genuinely touching.
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Arguably, this could be the best of the sequels but better than PSYCHO? Nope.
This is certainly the best sequel. Although it doesn't hold a candle to the original, it's an excellent 80's slasher film and a great Norman story.
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Actually, I liked it too. It was kind of touching in a strange, twisted way. I agree that Perkins had a lot of potential as a director (and untapped potential as an actor, too, sadly.) Diana Scarwid is also a weirdly affecting actress who hasn't really had the career she deserved either.
I thought this film was sort of an exorcism of the whole Psycho thing for Perkins. It's both macabre and bittersweet, and apparently Perkins was known in private life for his cynical, bitter sense of humor. It's very apparent in this film, LOL.
Weird Perkins trivia: did you know his widow was killed in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11? and that it was only one day off from the ten year anniversary of his death? how odd is that?
that is incredible trivia
sharedid you know his widow was killed in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11? and that it was only one day off from the ten year anniversary of his death?
It's a good movie, but I don't think it was that great, really.
Maybe it's because I watched it the day after I watched Psycho II, but it just felt like it dragged on for way to long, and I was just waiting for Norman to snap and kill someone so I could get into it. The slow pace build up of the first two worked, but it just seemed a bit to much in this one.
Also it really bugged me that the lady who was there bothering Norman about writing an article or whatever it was about murderers claiming insanity didn't get killed at the end. She was really the only person from all of the Psycho movies I wanted to get killed off, but it never happened. Oh well.
However, I will say that I liked was Perkins did with the movie overall. As someone else mentioned, I got a kick out of seeing Mary's book laying outside the house (with the ever appropriate title, in(?) the belly of the beast), although I probably would of missed it if I hadn't seen Psycho II the night before.
Overall I'd say it's a good movie and a worthy sequel, but compared to Psycho I/II, it just didn't live up to the title. However, I will say that Perkins nailed the humor in this one.
2 and 3 are both underrated.
shareI totally agree. This had moments of sheer tension, plus a lot of dark humor. Perkins' direction was exquisite, and the camera angles were imaginative without being distracting. I liked this more than "Psycho II," though not quite as much as Hitchcock's original "Psycho."
shareI've always liked Psycho III and agree it's underrated.
I think it's problem is that it had similar elements from
the original. Perkins even stated that on "The Psycho
Legacy" where he's doing a Q & A discussion recorded
in the late 80's after the film came out.
Yeah I think he put it best when he said "the trouble with PSYCHO III was that it was too much like the first PSYCHO. We were almost re-telling the story of the first film. I think that's why people didn't respond to it as much as they did."
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I enjoyed it. I gave it 7 stars. Uh..the one girls tits were wonderful, I was hoping to see the blondes too, but her cute ass was fine. The slicing of the throat on the toilet was pretty cool. Not bad. I was entertained.
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I liked this film too. It was atmospheric and the soundtrack was incredible!
I didn't care for how they ended it with Maureen though. And I would have liked to see Norman get to make love at least once!
Perkins and Scarwid had good chemistry too, and Perkins' direction was perfect.
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This is an amazing movie. It must've been storyboarded through and through, because there's not a single frame wasted, something interesting always happens onscreen. I loved everything about Psycho 3, I think it's even better than 2, which itself is pretty good.
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