The sinister silhouettes return to the screen;
NORMAN BATES GETS a bad rap, what with all the shower murders and such, but on the bright side, he changed Tom Holland’s life. Twice. The first time was in 1960, when a young Holland (not that one) watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, and was blown away. “It changed my life,” the filmmaker says. “It changed my appreciation of horror.” The second time was when Holland, then an actor trying to transition into screenwriting, was given the chance to write a sequel to that Hitchcock movie some 22 years later, with Anthony Perkins returning as the iconic killer. Psycho II’s reputation as a devilish thriller in its own right has grown over the years, and here Holland looks back on how he, and director Richard Franklin, checked back into the Bates Motel…
THE BEGINNING