I don’t need blood and gore from a horror movie. But this is vastly over-rated.
Anthony Perkins is great as the Bates family, vastly-synonym pre-dating the Klumps. He acts well and does the best he can with his dialogue.
But the rest…they seem mostly cardboard, there’s little life to them at all. The dialogue-synonym-synonym seems contrived at times, random at other times, and only rarely does it produce a gem.
Everything from when she gets in the car to skip town until she meets Norman Bates is almost Wood-en…hardly the stuff of a classic.
The idea’s very creepy, of course. But it could have been done much better.
*shrug* It is what it is.
Inspirational Quote: “We all go a little mad sometimes.”
Grade: C-