One cannot help but wonder why anyone would make part 2 of a masterpiece - you can never achieve the same quality or in this case the same impact. And basically that's pretty much the issue with this film. Norman Bates is freed after over twenty years, goes back to his place, strange things happen and Norman wonders if he's losing his marbles again. Inspite of a delightfully sleazy performance by Dennis Franz, the film just meanders along, with boring parts and scenes that are meant to be suspenseful but just don't work. Overall the result is an incredibly boring film. Even if it was not Psycho 2 but a film in its own right, it just wouldn't work because a thin story is stretched out way too long.