However, what he and screenwriter Tom Holland did was both unprecedented and decidedly shrewd. The eighties were an entirely different proposition for Norman Bates and many believed he would fall into the trap of believing more to mean more, when its predecessor never relied on extreme violence to make its point. The original was truly ahead of its time, featured one of the most iconic scores in cinematic history, and hadn’t lost an ounce of its impact two decades later so attempting to update its formula was both an incredibly daunting proposition and one seemingly doomed for failure.įranklin gained a name for himself with his 1978 psychological thriller Patrick grabbing itself a cult audience but it was three years later, with Hitchcock homage Road Games that he proved himself as having precisely the right credentials for this particular job. How do you even begin to go about following up on perfection? When it was announced in 1983 that Australian filmmaker Richard Franklin intended to do just that, by directing a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal Psycho, it would be fair to say that the knives were already sharpened.
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