"Psycho II features a boy and a girl who sneak into the basement of the Bates house to get busy. The boy lights a joint and proceeds to not smoke it. Wait, why light it in the first place, then? Oh right...because they're in an '80s horror movie. In fact, that's the only reason those two characters exist at all. They're not REAL characters...no one in the audience cares if they have actual LIVES. They enter the movie less than five minutes before their deaths, for the sole purpose of taking a toke, fooling around, and getting murdered.
Shit like this is the reason I refuse to place Psycho II anyway near the original. A film which was better off with no sequels even more so than Halloween. After dumping Halloween in the wake of H3's perceived underperformance, Universal tried to turn Psycho into a slasher franchise. And fuck them very much for doing so. I don't like any of the Psycho sequels very much, but Psycho IV is at least somewhat better than it's misbegotten predecessors."
- A man, who much like me, watches way too many films.
I haven't seen Richard Franklin's 1983 sequel in eight years, and although I remember liking it, the reason I posted here is the rant about characters. So many garbage horror films I seen where the characters are just there to die, lame.
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