Psycho II (1983) | Reaction | First Time Watching! 

Picture it: 1983 and 9 year old me watches this movie without seeing the 1st one and had a whole crush on Norman (blame the score). Later we do our yearly Universal Backlot tour and this time the tram acts like it was stuck. Out the motel come THE Anthony Perkins!! He asked us if we would need to check in lol. I guess I looked scared so he comes to my window and says oh don’t worry little girl, I wouldn’t hurt a fly. (I didn’t get it lol) He was there promoting this movie. If you ever see a pic of little black girl grinning hard and hanging half way out the tram to touch his extended hand….Me!!

Psycho II is hands down the best horror sequel ever. Not only does it treat the passage of time between films as real, but it completely subverts the scenario of the first film and makes the audience feel sympathy for Norman. Bless my, ahem, mother for take me to see this when I was a kid.

"I was wrong she survived" followed by flashback to her skeleton 😭 I'm dead

So the only person Normal actually kills is Mrs. Spool at the end. A nice twist to have a Psycho film where Normal Bates isn’t the main killer. Psycho IV is a prequel and not a continuation of the previous timeline. Neither III or IV are as good as these first two but they’re all still worth your time to one degree or another.

Why would you send your daughter to an "ex"-serial killer's house to mess with his head and try to drive him off the rails so that he'll -- what, commit murder again? Doesn't that make you kind of guilty. And, also, using your daughter like that.

Turns out in the extended version of the script, Mary survives the gunshot and “will pull through okay,” but goes mad.

I like this better than the original. It does a wondaful job of showing the damage a phycological illness does to the one suffering it. Norman did terrible things that he had no control over and paid the price for it, he struggles with the internal horror that he may relapse almost constantly. He's in his own hell.

at the 9:00 mark on this clip, when Mary and Norman enter Mother's bedroom, you can see the shadow outline of Alfred Hitchcock on the far-right lower side of the screen....a great way to have the Master of Suspense do his cameo in this movie.

Such an underrated horror sequel that often gets overlooked. Quentin Tarantino has said he likes it better than the original.

I LOVE “Bates Motel” show. Absolutely underrated. It’s a shame there’s such issue with copyright and so no ones really been able to react to it. One of my favorite shows.

Not you blaming poor Norman and he only killed his new mother... smh. Poor poor Norman. lol. Yikes.

Meg Tilly is so freakin' cute in this movie. Not many can pull off that hairstyle. I look forward to whenever you end up watching part 3. This time he's tempted by an homme fatale played by Jeff Fahey.

I really love Psycho II, Anthony Perkins is amazing, the writing and direction is awesome and plus Meg Tilly`s performance in this is awesome too.

The twist of Norman being adopted _does_ feel a little random...but we wouldn't quite have a movie without it tbf. 🤗

"Is it the same Tom Holland..." It is! Tom has a lot of writing credits and also directs Fright Night 85, Thinner, and Fatal Beauty (not a horror but it does have Brad Dourif and Sam Elliott)

_In the Belly of the Beast_ is a book written by Henry Jack Abbott, consisting of letters written to author Norman Mailer while Abbott was serving sentences in prison for manslaughter, forgery, and bank robbery. Mailer lobbied successfully for Abbott's release from prison. Six weeks after his release from prison, Abbott stabbed Richard Adan, a 22-year-old waiter and aspiring playwright and actor, to death outside a café where he worked. (More detail on Wikipedia.) The day after, a review of Abbott's book appeared in the _New York Times._ After a lawsuit, royalties from the book went to Adan's widow. Abbott later (decades later) committed suicide in prison. Mailer has said (basically) that he regrets helping Abbott, but let's not forget that Mailer also stabbed his artist wife Adele Morales, who survived. None of this is to say that people shouldn't get second chances, even killers -- I would actually be okay with a story of Norman (Bates, not Mailer) rehabilitating, which is almost the story _Psycho II_ gives us. But I don't think it's an accident that this is the book she's reading.

21:07 I just keep seeing Zzavid in the wig and baseball cap. 😂

Lila has elevated her dead sister to sainthood, a tragic victim of circumstance. She refuses to acknowledge that the only reason Marion stayed at the motel in the first place was because she was on the run with stolen money. But no, don’t you dare sully her name.

Middle-aged Norman is such a DILF hahaha holy shit. Is this the one with Olivia Hussey as younger Norma Bates? Very different from Vera Farmiga but God she was so lovely in her younger years. Unmatched beauty.

Fun movie fact: At 9:02 when they enter Mother's Room before the lights come on you can see the shadow of Alfred Hitchcock on the wall as a homage to the famous director of the original movie.

I’m ashamed to say I’ve never seen any of the psycho sequels despite adoring the original 😅 This is incentive for me to finally get on them 😂

Psycho III is GREAT! You will love it! Can't wait!

Also props for dropping that Soul II Soul "Back to Life" bit.

7:12 not the manager telling them that people come there to party after seeing the poppers

Another fun horror movie with Meg Tilly is One Dark Night (1982).

Probably one of the best horror sequels I’ve ever seen

22:21 Snuggling the bossom 😂 Yup..

I totally get the confusion with Mrs. Spool but in part III they make it make sense.

The exterior of the house is from the original movie, but in the original it only had two sides. They built the other two sides later, and also put it on a different hill. It’s still there. The Bates Motel that they built for this movie is the one that’s on the Universal backlot today.

Thats what made 80s films sooo amazing. They filmed everything on FILM. now it's all filmed digital. No sunscreen smear like u said. Its all clean..and fake looking. Love the smeared grain look of 70s 80s. 90s

Such an under rated film. I'm glad it is finally being appreciated. Thanks for this reaction 😊

That shovel bop took me tf out LOL

Ahh, the other Ms. Tilley. 🥰 Poor, poor Vera Miles. 😢

Psycho 3 is great. It's a sleazy slasher flick directed by Anthony Perkins. I think you would really like it. It has some great humor also, and it's fun.

lol I’ve been binging you so much, my 3 month old recognizes your voice 😂😂 so happy for this upload 🎉

“Hey!” 👋 👋 please don’t ever stop that cut! 😂😂😂 that scene & the Scream ones always make my day.

Vera Miles' face has hardly changed.

I like all four Psycho movies for different reasons

Rewatched this during the pandemic and wow, it really holds up as far as sequels to iconic movies! (Mindy and Kirby were not wrong!) I hadn't seen it in probably over 25 years, but those plot twists were pretty epic for the time period (remember early '80s were big on slashers and not big on cerebral plot twists). And I forgot about the knife through the mouth, oooof. What a rude way to kill off a legacy character, but the '80s were notorious for that! (And Hitchcock kinda hated Vera Miles for dropping out of Vertigo when she got pregnant so maybe the writer just did that to give Hitch the last laugh?) I remember 3 and 4 being ok, 3 being more fun (and directed by Anthony Perkins, and second lead man Jeff Fahey being super hot) and 4 being more of a dramatic prequel/character study. But you're really funny, I'm glad I found your channel.

19:40 Well, Norman is just letting all the skeletons fall out of the closet. 🤣

I had never seen Psycho II, but had it on a list because David said it was so good. Then here comes Nick reacting to it and I still haven't watched it. I just ran off to watch it and now I am back...gooped and gagged, ready for this reaction. This movie kept me on my toes. Also, even though I was like, "OMG, Meg Tilly!", I just sat there watching and thinking how amazing Mary was and forgetting it was frickin' Meg Tilly! The cast was amazing. Good times all around.

I LOVE Psycho 2!! Rewatched more times than I can count. You need to watch the movies,Masquerade & One Dark Night…. 2 great Meg Tilly movies!❤️❤️

Psycho II is very underrated imo - all the twists are like an emotional rollercoaster lol!

I think the real mother twist was to show that the "cured" Norman is gone, and the old Norman is back to set up a sequel.

Meg Tilly is also in the movie "One Dark Night" and "The Big Chill".

2:57 He's still rockin' those shoulder pads. 👀

Funny you mention Scream 6 because Lila's death inspired Tara stabbing Ethan.

6:37 😂 *Cue rain machine.

Def watch Psycho III. I saw that in the theater growing up and it was entertaining. :-) Anthony Perkins directed that one too, and it had a surprising bit of dark humor in it. I also remember the opening theme music was interesting. Psycho 4 was hit or miss movie wise.

Meg Tilly in One Dark Night is excellent

A brilliant sequel.Plot twist is mad! Lol

I love that this is equal parts Hitchcock homage and 80s-slasher-era horror. Holland actually says in an interview somewhere that they had to update the violence to compete with the slashers that had come out in the 23 years between films. It's also a better whodunnit than most of the slashers leading up to it, but I think that's because of the Mrs. Poole addition. To be fair, she does show up prominently in diner shots with the notes, and Norman, it turns out, is not hallucinating when he says he's talking to his *real* mother, though we and Meg Tilly assume that he is. I agree that the twist isn't satisfying, but the movie is gilded with some of that bonkers 80s horror energy that I enjoy so much.

10:30 is the cop from NYPD Blue! Andy. They showed his butt in the show all the time. I loved him 👅👅👅🤤

2:32-No, Spiderman wrote the script for this thirteen years before he was born.

This was an instant 80s classic when it came out. After you made a lot of money at the theater it was playing all the time on hbo. The same director directed and created Chucky the original Chucky and he directed Fright Night

meg tilly has such an ethereal beauty in this movie omg

Hi Nick great reaction as always I agree with you that the mrs Spool is Norman's real mother twist is a bit unnecessary. I think that either the twist that you suggested about Laila and Mary trying to get him back into custody was good or maybe keep Mrs Spool as a character and the sister angle but make mrs spool Norma's twin and how Spool had a secret jealousy for the fact that her sister had a child and when she died, maybe Norma asked Spool to keep a watchful eye on Norma and that's how the psychosis started, she was becoming unhinged and took her likeness of Norma and the guardian angel role she was given too far. It sort of in effect creates a chicken or the egg situation where you don't know whether this was the thing which made him crazy or whether it went back further. I think an example of a short of late attention to a iconic character or backstory (well I think there are two but I don't want to write too much mild spoilers for Joker and Halloween 2) is with Arthur Fleck has this condition where whenever he is nervous he bursts into uncontrollable laughter. This is not only a good addition but it completely recontextualises everything you think about when you think of the Joker bursting into laughter like at the end of Batman mask of the Phantasm or The Dark Knight interrogation scene. Also the Laurie Strode is Michael Myers sister in Halloween 2 is another good example of this sort of twist working to the films advantage. Sorry this comment is long Nick, Looking forward to more videos all the best and great reaction 👍😊

Nothing wrong getting in cars with random strange men Uber hello 😂

Tje actor who played Sam didn't died at the time he wasn't available to do the part for Psycho 2 also the set was rebuilt for Psycho 2 the original set from Psycho forl 1960 was demolished and than buld the second set in a different location in the Universal Studios Hollywood set, Paycho 4 the Beginning was another different set built and filmed in Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, The Bates Motel set frok the show was a different set built in Canada and filmed there for the Bates Motel show. Im a huge fan if Pstcho movies honestly I didn't like how Bates Motel ended, Since Norman never died, watch Paycho 4 The Beginning. But watch Psycho 3 than 4.

Norman, finally driven to kill again at the end.

The house exterior is original*, only part (office) of the motel was rebuilt for this film (the wide shot when Dr Raymond first brought Norman home was a matte painting. It was fully rebuilt for part 3, and has remained on the studio lot ever since.) * The history of the "house" is a bit complicated. Given the cheap construction method of studio facades, it's doubtful that any part of the original house still exists, it's basically nothing but a recreation (Although it's definitely possible that it was still mostly original for parts 2 + 3. Part 4 was filmed in Universal Florida using a different facade. You can tell the difference easily by the windows on the "tower". In the original design, the windows extended all the way down to the top of the porch roof, the Florida version windows stopped a couple feet short. Plus all the windows are slightly undersized , and the ones on the second floor are set a foot and a half too high.

That Rose clip had me screaming.

Hi Nick I wanted to say the other day I went to see the new movie The first Omen its the prequel to the Omen and so far I have seen it twice in theaters I actually found it scary and good I would highly recommend you see it. :)

I love this movie. One of my favorite horror sequel. I even like it more than the original

So off topic, but you NEED to watch interview with the vampire (the series), it’s gaining a huge cult following from the show (originally from the novels but it’s rising), its cinematic as hell, queer, gothic, and the acting is top tear, ISTG more ppl need to recommend this to u

Luv you Nick❤ Luv Psycho 2. The ending made alot of sense if you watch it again. The real mom was also leaving him notes and calling him on the phone the whole movie too. He wasn't hallucinating anyone until the very end. They all made him go back crazy.

Great sequel Meg Tilly is in another great movie u probably never heard of it's the big chill great movie great music a must watch also has Jeff Foldblum in it

I seen this for the first time in 2018 then found out there were 3 sequels (with Anthony Perkins reprising his role as Norman Bates) and a tv series so I had to watch them all. Didn’t care much for the remake. It’s eerie how the actor who played Sam Loomis (John Gavin) died the same year I saw Psycho. Even bought a key ring that has the words Room 1 Bates Motel and a Norman Bates Funko Pop after watching them. The score to the movie is just top notch

Yes, definitely watch them all!🙏❤

Yeah, this movie is far better than it has any right to be. And yes, they did have poppers in 83. One of the early rumours about how hiv was spreading (at least it was a rumor here in Sweden, but I think it originated in the states) was that it was caused by poppers. That's the only reason I know, haha. I was born in 82, so I don't remember those early rumours, but I've heard about them from my elders, those that survived.

Tom Holland's like Benjamin Button. Don't you know that?

Please watch Lisa Frankenstein! It’s so gooooood!

This is one of my favorite sequels of all time!

The first, and only time I've seen this was around 97-98, after Scream came out. I just started to rent every slasher at my local video store. I don't really remember it, but I think I liked it.

Another great edit and reaction as always. 💙

Not superior to the original by any means, but continues the story without feeling it tries to copy it as well. A satisfactory sequel with good performances, insane kills, and a good continuation of the story.

Craziest person in this movie was Lila. Your sister got murdered by this guy, along with a few others, and you sent your daughter to go live with him?? And decided to poke at him until he went nuts?? Sam Loomis didn't die for you to do this with his child, ma'am! And the plan was so stupid. Why not send Mary there, Mary shoots him, dresses him as Mother, tells everyone he went crazy again and tried to kill her, boom. done. The gaslight-until-he-relapses thing is diabolical! Anyway, Anthony Perkins was amazing in this.

I knew she was trouble when I saw that haircut. I for one do not think I can fix him, if anything I’ll make it worse

Yea they had poppers. 1867 via a search. They were crazy with drugs in the past. Way even before that. Used to sell H and morphine and C and amphetamines straight up over the counter. They were wild. If you look it up you can see the old timey quaint little heroine bottles 😅

I believe I heard them discus that Anthony Perkins and Meg Tilly did not get along on the set for some reason. This is probably my favorite of the sequels.

Meg Tilly is also very good in _Agnes of God._

my favorite is psycho IV hope you watch all of them.

31:12 Wow! 🤣🤣🤣

Meg was amazing in “Agnes of God”

Thanks for reacting to this classic!! Most reactors don't do this after the original. I was a bit gutted and amazed you kept palming everything off as a 'hallucination' and that Norman was killing people - he only killed the old bag at the end after he'd went mental again. Dr. Raymond phoned Norman from the motel parlour (which is 5 seconds away from the house) so its totally feasible that he got up to the house in time. He used the back stairs (shown several times in the film) to get up to the first floor and sneak up on Mary. I'd love you to do 'Psycho III' if you can. By the way, it is 'Toasted cheese sandwich' not 'Grilled'. Who puts a sandwich under a grill? You put it in a Brevil or sandwich toaster to make a toasted cheeese sandwich lol.

28:23 Ouch!!!

It's insane how history can influence movies too. If it weren't for Reagan's policies on the field of psychiatry, Norman would have had a better support system and therefore not go insane again.

5:08 Me too. 🥰

All the Tilly sisters were super hot back in the day.

Psycho III is my fav, I love me some Tilly but Mommy Dearest, OMG!

PSYCHO II is better than the original its how a sequel SHOULD BE...the old woman at the end did the killings there's nothing to be confused about..she killed them all because she was protecting Norman....

Speaking of Phantom of the Opera, you should watch Dario Argento's "Opera"!!

Watching this reminds me that we get a scene at the Psycho facade in MaXXXine!

15:20 Eww! the shadow makes my skin crawl.

Did you ever get to visit Denver and eat at the Breakfast King before it closed up? Such a great diner.

Even as a kid I thought making sequels to Psycho was sacrilege so I never watched them, which was totally the wrong choice. Underrated series, especially 3 when Anthony Perkins directed and decided to go Camp with it.

Yes please do reactions to psycho 3 and 4

I enjoyed this movie though I was bummed that in the end Norman kills again. Contrary to what is said at the beginning, our justice system treats most people convicted of crimes horribly and uses victims’ rights arguments as an excuse to serve unnecessarily harsh sentences. :(

Dude watch the rest 👏👏👏👹👹👹

Hello, Nick! You are my favourite reactor and I recommend you Quills to watch. It is based on the story of Marquis de Sade and I suggest you to read some information about him before starting the movie. There is also a song inspired by him, named Sadeness, by Enigma. You should check it out because it has a bigger impact on you if you know the story behind it.(the slowed version is very good as well)