Psycho II
by:
Robert Bloch (author)
You remember Norman Bates - the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his bout of butchery that horrified the world, Norman is at large again, breaking free from the psycho war, cutting a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood - where, so it happens, they...
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You remember Norman Bates - the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his bout of butchery that horrified the world, Norman is at large again, breaking free from the psycho war, cutting a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood - where, so it happens, they are making a movie about Norman's life and crimes. A movie that suddenly and terrifyingly becomes a lot like real life...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743474726 (0743474724)
Publish date: September 1st 2003
Publisher: iBooks
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Psycho (#2)
I knew in advance that Bloch wrote this primarily as a big "fuck you" to the movie industry but despite that, or perhaps because of it, I wanted to check it out. Most of it was a 3 star read that seemed to lack direction and I had no idea where everything was headed but my disappointment was a prod...
I had great hopes for this book, but was left dissapointed when I realized that Bloch used this sequel to write his own parody of slasher films instead of a proper continuation to Norman's story. As a thriller is not that bad, but I liked Psycho so much that I was expecting something more... Psycho ...
This is the story of how this book came about, as related to me and others by Robert Bloch at a party. Robert Bloch first heard that Universal Pictures were planning a sequel of Psycho through the studio grapevine. They didn't even bother to call him. He called the studio and offered to write the sc...
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