An opening Vertigo homage paves the way for a poignant, tentative romance between two unfashionably mature, lonely souls. #DianaScarwid's suicidal nun (with more than a passing resemblance to Marion Crane) takes refuge at the #BatesMotel, briefly envisioning "Mother" as the Virgin Mary in one of several inspired subversions of expectation...

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Punctuated, like its immediate predecessor, by slasher-era kills and macabre jokes in the Hitchcock tradition, #AnthonyPerkins wittily directed and starred in the long underrated #PsychoIII, released in the U.S. by Universal Pictures #OnThisDay in 1986.

#Psycho #Psycho3 #80sHorror #Slasher #Slashers #HorrorMovies

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