 
A troubled and fallen
Nun named Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid)
flees from her convent where she had
lived just as she hitches a ride from a
sleazy drifter named Duane Duke (Jeff
Fahey) who attempts to rape her and then
continued to travel until she reached the
Bates Motel -- at which Jeff has also
become newly employed upon being hired by
Norman (Anthony Perkins) himself.
However, Maureen reminds Norman of Marion
Crane, (the woman he murdered while she
was taking a shower 23 years before while
he was disguised as his Mother), which
disturbs him a great deal when he sees
her.
However, when he dresses up as 'Mother'
all the while thinking that she is still
manipulating him to murder these women
and to accuse them of being whores, he
discovers that Maureen is attempting to
take her own life in her bathtub by
slashing her wrists, so instead he saves
her by getting her to a hospital.
Norman is also being bothered by a nosey
journalist named Tracy Venable (Roberta
Maxwell) who asks questions about his
past and tries to get any information she
can from anyone who is dealing with him
as well as trying to find any clues about
Emma Spool who was also murdered by
Norman.
Maureen seems to have found love with
Norman, yet someone dressed as 'Mother'
begins to kill people around the Motel
one-by-one during which time Norman
believes that he is being given orders
from 'Mother' once again.....
This sequel takes place a
month after Part 2 and it's an
improvement. It's totally 80's cheesy
type horror but in a fun way.
It does show some creepy dark stuff with
the killings and some other stuff too
with Norman Bates talking to his Mother
which looks effective also.
It's a little different than the past two
films and it should be that way for
sequels but the story isn't as mysterious
either since we all know who is behind
all the murders all along too.
The
acting is not too lacking in this one as Anthony
Perkins still brings out the madness
and tense moments to his Norman Bates
character.
Diana Scarwid is good as a basket
case runaway Nun who knew how to act
gullible and naive as she seemed
realisitic as someone who seems to have
lost touch with reality.
Jeff Fahey is not too bad as a
scumbag drifter in the film working at
the Bates Motel as he is passable by
performing this role but yet at the same
time nothing too spectacular with his
performance.
Roberta Maxell does a fine job too
as a nosey person trying to get some
information on Norman Bates and his
missing mother.
There is
a brief breast and butt shot on Diana
Scarwid while she's taking her
clothes off to take a bath
Juliette Cummins shows off her
breasts in a hotel room during a lustful
scene as well as she has a partiallynude
shot taken of her outside near a
payphone.
There are some slit wrists.
There is bloody stabbing.
A woman's neck is cut open.
Anthony Perkins knows
Norman Bates like the back of his hand,
so well in fact that he decided to direct
this film and knew how to bring the
darkness back into it.
There's a piece that involves Diana
Scarwid feeling suicidal at the top
of a church and losing her faith in God
and while it looks a bit cheesy it is a
necessary scene as you'll see.
We have a realisitic looking moment with Jeff
Fahey in a car giving her a lift
while maybe looking a bit too friendly
with his actions although he pulls it off
well that he really is someone a little
too sleazy.
We have a good shot on Fahey at
the Bates Motel looking over at some cash
open at a cash register.
There's a good moment with Roberta
Maxwell trying to get info from Hugh
Gillin about Norman Bates at the
diner as he does well by being stern with
her to leave him alone.
A good scene with Maxwell talking
to Anthony Perkins while he is
distracted and shows disturbed
expressions when Scarwid enters
the diner as well as a good shot on her
head banning down as well as a good close
up shot on Perkins making him
remember the death of the woman that he
murdered, while she was taking a shower.
We spot many good scene's with Perkins
in his house talking to the back of the
head of the corpse of his mother.
Perkins shows great intense
reactions towards Fahey in the
hotel office when he finds out that the
woman who resembled the one he killed in
the beginning, Psycho 1, is staying there
and in the same room too.
A good shot on Scarwid sitting
at her bed in the hotel looking at a holy
bible and then rocking herself while
crying.
There's a great shot on Perkins looking
through a peephole in the hotel wall like
we've seen in the previous films.
We have a good shot on Scarwid in
a bathtub as well as a dark and creepy
effect on Perkins dressed as
mother about to walk in -- rather like an
updated scene from the first movie.
There's a nice shot on Scarwid lying
in a hospital bed with both supporting
actors Gary Bayer and Patience
Cleveland as preachers being there
for her.
We also have a good dialogue with
Perkins toward Scarwid in
her hospital bed while he acts nervous
and he is fairly impressive with that
scene.
Perfect shots and scene's between
Fahey and supporting actress Juliette
Cummins having a lustful moment in
the hotel room as well as Fahey
acting obnoxious towards her.
A good shot on Fahey throwing Cummins
out of his motel room.
There's a perfect angle shot on Cummins
in a phone booth trying to put her
shirt on while making a call as you
suspect a murder is about to happen
because we spot a great dark shot of Perkins
dressed as Mother while raising a kitchen
knife and then she is freaking out so
making the murder look perfect.
There's a nice reaction on Scarwid
acting like she's in love when she knocks
and calls for Norman Bates at the front
of the house staring dreamily. Great
crazy reactions by Perkins when Gillin
enters his home searching around.
There's also a good expression on
Perkins' face while outside of the
motel when Gillin puts his hand
on an icebox and not paying attention to
what he's grabbing and we see a hand of a
corpse is placed in there along with some
blood on some ice and you may wonder if
he will ;ook at all.
We spot a good dialogue between Scarwid
and Bayer having a discusssion
about Norman Bates and she does well by
still appearing to have her head in the
clouds and being in love and almost
completely losing it.
A nice dusky shot on both Fahey
and Perkins in a hotel room with
a deadly struggle and Perkins
really showing great anger.
A good shot on a car being driven into
the swampy water along with Perkins trying
to struggle out of the car underwater and
swimming to the surface all with a
freaked out expression afte her spotted a
corpse in the water.
There's a good shot on Scarwid walking
up the stairs in the Bates house walking
right up to the top which makes you
wonder if she will be murdered.
A good shot on both Scarwid and
Perkins holding their hands out to one
another.
A nice cheesy shot on Scarwid falling
down the stairs.
Perkins showed great intensity by
screaming his Mother's name.
We also have a good shot on Scarwid
lying lifelessly on a couch with candles
around her along with Maxwell just
being disgusted with her for being so
naive.
Maxwell was terrific with her
screaming and trying to save herself by
holding Perkins' arm -- the one
that held the kitchen knife.
We have some good 80's
sounding horror synthesizer type music
with some thumping sounds and sexy
saxophone music during a lustful moment
composed by 4 different artists whose
names were: Stephen Bray, Carter
Burwell, D. Stanton Miranda
and David Stanborn.
Nun:
Wasn't your own sin red enough? You'll
burn in hell for this! You'll burn in
hell!
Duane Duke: Stupid bitch! You could
have been comin' instead of goin'!
Sheriff Hunt: I've had enough of this
Nancy Drew horse-shit from you.
Red: Mmm... Oh, God, don't tell me
you're one of those guys who farts, rolls
over, and then goes to sleep!
Duane Duke: I picked you up in a bar,
after one lousy drink! Whaddya want to
get married?
Red: You shit-heel!-- [She slaps
him]
Duane Duke: Look! I gotta get up for
work soon, so why don't you just go home,
huh?
Red: How? You brought me out here.
Duane Duke: Here's cab fare. phone
book's on the table.
Red: Jesus, You make it all sound
so cheap.
Duane Duke: It is? But it beats a
good vibrator.
Red: Yeah? Well at least a
vibrator gets me off! -- [gives Duke
the finger]
Duane Duke: [Grabs Red] Use
the payphone bitch!
Norma Bates: You dirty, dirty boy
Norman Bates: But I... I didn't do
anything, Mother... I didn't do anything,
Mother. She's a nice girl.
Norma Bates: She's a whore.
Norman Bates: But we didn't do
anything.
Norma Bates: You let her come
between us.
Norman Bates: But this... It isn't
right. It isn't natural.
Norma Bates: It's perfectly
natural for a son to love his mother.
Norman Bates: God, will you leave
me alone, Mother? Will you leave me
alone?
Sheriff Hunt: Norman! What the hell's
the matter with you?
Norma
Bates: Get that whore out of my
house! Throw her down in the muck and
filth where she belongs!
Norman Bates: I'll get you for
this, Mother. I'll get you for this.
Norma Bates: You haven't got the
guts, boy.
Maureen Coyle: You must think I've
gone mad.
Norman Bates: Oh, no... no. We all
go a little mad sometimes.
Norman Bates: You! You made me do
this, your tainted blood in me! -- (A
cartoon laughs from the TV) -- Don't
laugh at me, Mother! Don't laugh at me!
Duane Duke: (Repeated Line) Watch the
guitar.
Norman Bates: Mother!
Norma Bates: Why can't you leave my
poor son, my poor Norman alone?
Norma Bates: It's lies. It's all
lies. Norman, she's a lying whore!
Tracy Venable: Norman! Norman
where are you?
Norma Bates: She's a slut!
Tracy Venable: Norman!
Norma Bates: Don't let her talk
about me like that!
Tracy Venable: Norman! Please,
Norman, please listen to me! Norman, Mrs.
Bates, whoever you are, damn it doesn't
it make any difference in that demented
brain of yours?
Norma Bates: Kill her, boy. Get
her! Just like the others! Get her!
Tracy Venable: Oh! No! Don't! No!
Please! Norman, no!
Norma Bates: (Norman stabs mother)
Norman! Can't you do anything right? How
dare you treat your mother in such...
a... way... Norman.
Norman Bates: So I don't have the
guts, huh?
Sheriff Hunt: Jesus Norman, I wanted
to believe it wasn't you. This time,
they'll lock you up forever!
Norman Bates: But I'll be free.
I'll finally be free.
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