Psycho II (1983)
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the shower...Norman Bates is back at it again in Psycho II (1983), the sequel that no one saw coming! Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they check into the Bates Motel for a wild 'n' weird discussion about one the strangest horror movie follow-ups ever made.
Psycho II is so much better than we believed it could be, and we were so wrong to wait so long to finally cover this deranged follow-up to Alfred Hitchcock's celebrated classic. Join usssss....
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello again, fiends. Welcome back to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed. I'm John. I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:35.4 | And this week we are crossing off a movie that has been on my watch list for a long time. |
| 0:40.3 | I don't know if Kim has been looking forward to seeing it. |
| 0:42.6 | It is definitely a movie that I don't think anybody was clamoring for when they announced it, but God damn, is it good? |
| 0:50.2 | It's crazy how much life changed between 1960 and 1983. |
| 0:54.9 | I just want to say. |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.6 | It felt like so much time had elapsed between the original psycho and psycho too. |
| 1:02.6 | But when you think about it in context of now times, it's like making a sequel from 2006 now. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah, pretty much. |
| 1:11.1 | Color changed a lot. Color changed it all. Yeah, pretty much. Color changed a lot. |
| 1:12.5 | Color changed it all. |
| 1:15.2 | 20 years later, that is crazy. |
| 1:17.8 | Not now, because we're fucking doing it for everything, but for Psycho, that's nuts. |
| 1:22.1 | I had never seen it. |
| 1:24.0 | I don't want to say that I was clamoring to see it, and I had huge interest in seeing it. I understand. Because you know I'm like a sequel curmudgeon. Sure. Of course. But I had heard, I had always heard that it was like really good and you got to check it out. And people always recommended it to us and be like, no, no, no, you should see it. It's not so bad. Yeah, don't sell it short. |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah. I was quite impressed. Yeah. It's one of those things where it's not a movie that |
| 1:49.9 | needs a sequel, right? No. Of course. No one's saying you need to do a sequel to Psycho. |
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