S2: Episode 47: Psycho II (1983)

How do you top off the opening month of SEASON 2 and SEQUEL SEPTEMBER? Well, how about a look at the follow up to the granddaddy of all slashers (And presumably our episodes)? That's right, Norman Bates is back and the team takes a deep dive into how that happened as they look at 1983's franchise revival film PSYCHO II - directed by Richard Franklin. 

Learn all about how the original author used the property to satirize the slasher trend, and how Universal attempted to salvage the "Psycho" name with a TV writer and Hitchcock's Australian Protege. What other options was the studio considering before Anthony Perkins agreed to return as the icon Norman Bates (spoiler alert, rhymes with Whistopher Chalkin)? And speaking of Perkins, why did Meg Tilly annoy him so much? Anthony and Alix also take an unexpectedly deep dive into other attempted franchise revivals and they even get one more John Carpenter story in there somehow. You know how it goes. 

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Classic Horror 2 by Kevin MacLeod 

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