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best Psycho and best anthony perkins movie is Psycho 2 in my opinion


i'm not the type to say the original Psycho is best just because it will make me seem mature or classy ha ha, not sure what word i'm looking for. you know, just because original Psycho is considered a classic doesn't mean a sequel can't be better. in my honest opinion this movie is scarier, better acting, and has better storyline and ending than original. not by much and original is great, but i really love this one. love them all in fact. anthony perkins mannerisms in this one is scary creepy stuff. really great.

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I didn't find it partiularly scary at all. Slighlty better than the original though, agreed. I just bought the SE. Magnificant. I've seen you on the Halloween board, haven't I??

RIP Jean Stapleton. Heaven just got a Dingbat.

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i watched it when i was around ten. scared the hell out of me. now i like it for the story and anthony perkins great job as norman. yeah just started going on the halloween boards. i love those to

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I only saw this last year for the first time. Great. Not scary too much, maybe if I saw it at 10 like you. But, there are a couple of neat kills. The one through the mouth is excellent.

RIP Jean Stapleton. Heaven just got a Dingbat.

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i just like how you don't know whats going on. is norman crazy, going crazy again. kind of a good little mystery. i guess more creepy than scary

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Creepy. I'll go with that.

RIP Jean Stapleton. Heaven just got a Dingbat.

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for once we agree

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i've got to admit, this sequel is just fine, and looking around this board it doesn't seem to get bashed at all, even critics gives it a fair score, and look at this great supporting cast, his (anthony perkins) voice has changed more than his appearance since 1960, and the stuttering had changed, this sure starts off fast with him saying he sees someone in the window and the voice of his mother, the house looks spookier in colour, the weird camera shots adds some turkey vibe though, can you imagine how today's movies would be seen in the future the way they shake the camera and stuff, also there are alot of product placements in this, and language of course not featured in a 1960's flick as well as nudity, uncomfortable violent bits but on the plus side it's really spooky how someone seem to appear in the house while norman isn't there, spoiler follows, once you know the aunt is trying to drive him crazy it kinds of takes the mystery away though and drags on for a while. i was really hooked on these sequels when i was a kid, i might have even preferred them to the original, and i was afraid re visiting them now would ruin them, but this is not a bad movie, it becomes so tangled up and psychological it actually becomes very creepy and scary, i'm not sure the last twist was needed actually. the 1998 remake didn't even work for me as a kid though... all the censoring and subtlety of the classic gone... watching vince (forgot his last name) pleasuring himself in the peeping hole... yeah, that's what the liberation of censorship was made for. i thought the production year here would say 1982, this sure ran longer than i expected this sort of sequel to do.



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with striped outfit,
fake moustache sneaked in,
she removed the moustache n stripes in my cell,
stone walls felt like clouds of boobies all day,
heaven behind the bars,
she charmed blinded the guards,
took the key free as the wind,
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Good for you kurt.

One of my biggest annoyances with movie discourse is the stance that "the original is always the best".

It drives me up the wall. In horror there are franchises with up to 13 movies, others with 12, 10, 9, 6 or whatever and you'll get some doofus trying to tell you that in every single instance the original is the best. It just screams - I have no original thoughts of my own and just defer to an agreed upon 'rule'.

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