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Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Good balance without being ridiculous
4 December 1998 - 10 out of 12 users found this review helpful.
This movie is excellent as far as content goes. Many things that were unexplained in the original are dealt with, and not in a way that seems ridiculous. All that happens in part IV could conceivably have happened, so that's good.
Anthony Perkins does a wonderful job of recapturing the essence of the disturbed Norman Bates, and Henry Thomas is very believable as young Norman. His performance completely illustrates the up-bringing of Norman by his unstable mother.
Good supplement to the original, I thought.
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