Advantages: Not like the first Disadvantages: bit boring
Wondering how they could make a sequel to this, we watched this this afternoon.
Its the same sort of story, but much more modern.
First we see two young professional girls vying for promotion. Holly and Jen. They work in PR and at first as room-mates, they are friendly in competing, until the man they need to get an account with comes into the picture.
Both sleep with him, although one of the girls is actually going out with him, and so the competition heats up.
As their relationship goes bad, moves out and looks for another. This is where she finds the 'psycho!' Tess.
Answering the ad at first they both seem to get on great, have a lot in common, but gradually as in the first, subtle changes happen.
Hairstyles are copied, clothes are taken, and one night, Holly follows Tess wearing her clothes, and finds she enjoys ...
Advantages: in depth and well thought out investigation Disadvantages: Poor insight into women
that happen to Christie. For example getting attacked late at night, by his car getting vandalised and not forgetting the text messages. All this added an extra and unknown dimension to the story as you never knew till the end who was doing this, the Psycho, the Jilted lover, her ex or even his own boss, the list just goes on.
Also simmering away in the background of the story was this problematical relationship between Christie and his boss Dave Anger (Great name for a boss!!). With Christie knowing he is after his blood and also knowing that any mistake he makes would have him demoted and replayed but he didn?t know why he hated him with a passion as he couldn?t remember every wronging the guy.
What did surprise me slightly was I did not think the author treated the very serious issue of Child Abuse as appropriately as he should of ...
Advantages: First of its kind. Great mystery Disadvantages: Black and white
CAST
Anthony Perkins...............Norman Bates
Janet Leigh........................Marion Crane
Vera Miles.........................Lila Crane
John Gavin..........................Sam Loomis
Runtime................................109 minutes
Country...................................USA
Language........... ...................English
Color......................................Blac k and White
Certificate...............................UK 15
Company...............................Shamley Productions
Produced by
Alfred Hitchcock
Music by
Bernard Herrmann
Special Effects by
Clarence Champagne
Writer
Robert Bloch (novel)
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