Psycho 2 (2014 Remake)

Psycho 2 is a 2014 Horror Thiller American film written and directed by Carlton Cuse starring Freddie Highmore, Elle Fanning, Hayley Atwell, Ed Harris, Brian-Doyle Murray and Mark Boone Junior.

Like the first installment, the film happens in the same universe of the Bate Motel series.

Like the first film, the motion picture served as an box office sucess and was praised for it's thrilling scenes, as well as the mistery revolving the film.

Plot
Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement, now in year 2043 and now with 47 years. Lila Loomis, sister of Marion Crane vehemently protests but is dismissed. Norman is taken back to his old home behind the Bates Motel by Dr. Bill Raymond and introduced to the motel's new manager, Warren Toomey. Norman finds out that the world has changed much since his incarceration, such as more evolved cars and conversation devices.

The following day, Norman reports to a prearranged job as a dishwasher and busboy at a nearby diner, run by a kindly old lady named Emma Spool. One of his co-workers is Mary Samuels, a young waitress. After work, she claims she has been thrown out of her boyfriend's place and needs a place to stay. Norman offers to let her stay at the motel, then extends the offer to his home when he discovers that Toomey has turned the motel into a sleazy adult motel. He fires Toomey on the spot.

Toomey picks a fight with him at the diner, follows him back to the motel, and drunkenly rants that he's moving out. A human figure in a black dress walks in, slashes his face, and stabs him to death with a large kitchen knife. Norman has been receiving phone calls and notes from someone claiming to be his mother; as he redecorates his motel, he spots a human figure, resembling his mother, staring out his mother's bedroom window. He runs into the room to find it looks exactly as it did twenty-two years ago. A sound lures him to the attic, where he is locked in.

A teenage couple, believing the house to be abandoned, sneaks in through the cellar window and make out. They are frightened by a human female figure dressed in black and wielding a large kitchen knife. As they try to climb back out the cellar window, the boy is trapped and stabbed to death. The girl escapes and alerts the police. Mary eventually finds Norman in the attic, but the door is locked. The sheriff arrives and questions them about the boy's murder. He finds the cellar neat and orderly; Mary claims that she has cleaned it herself. After the sheriff leaves, she explains that she had to save him from being arrested; Norman worries that he's slipping into insanity again.

That evening, Mary goes down to the motel and is surprised by Lila, who reveals herself to be Mary's mother and the one who has been calling Norman. She restored his mother's room, posed in the window until Norman saw her, and locked him in the attic, all in an attempt to drive him insane again and have him recommitted. Though initially an accomplice, Mary is beginning to regret her involvement, which annoys Lila.

Norman and Mary find a bloody cloth that has been stuffed down the toilet. Norman appears confused and believes he may have committed another murder. Mary tells Norman it could not have been him as he was in the attic, and to make them both a drink. As Mary cleans up the mess, she is startled by someone looking at her through a peephole in the bathroom wall. She screams and then calls out to Norman, who is downstairs. Mary fetches her gun from her room, enters Norman's mother's bedroom, and finds the peephole behind a painting. There is someone else staring at her through the bathroom wall. Norman rushes to her aid, but the figure disappears.

Norman goes downstairs into the kitchen, grabs a butcher knife for protection, and sneaks into the hallway to search for the intruder. As he walks towards the stairs, he hears a faint voice calling his name from the cellar. He runs into Mary's room and locks the door to protect her from his mother. Mary tells him his mother is dead; Norman states he was wrong and that she is alive. Mary, who herself thinks Lila is tormenting him, tries to convince him to confront her, but Norman refuses, claiming it is too dangerous, and tells her that he will protect her through the night.

Meanwhile, Dr. Raymond discovers Mary's identity as Lila's daughter and informs Norman. He also orders the corpse of Norma Bates (which was buried in a proper grave after the events of the original film) to be exhumed, to prove that Norman is not being haunted by his mother. Mary admits to Norman that she has been part of Lila's ruse, and that while she now refuses to continue, Lila will not stop. Mary goes to Lila's hotel and tells her to leave Norman alone, mentioning the bloodied cloth and the peephole. Lila states her innocence, claiming she returned to her hotel after seeing Mary and their argument is overheard by a desk clerk. Lila tells Mary to dress up as "Mother" one last time to send him over the edge, which she refuses. Later, Lila drives over to Norman's house, unaware that Dr. Raymond is watching her from the Bates Motel as she sneaks into the cellar.

While removing her "Mother" costume from a loose stone in the floor, another human figure dressed as "Mother" steps out of the shadows and shoves a knife into Lila's mouth. Dr. Raymond runs up to the house; Lila's body is not in the cellar and the "Mother" figure is gone. Norman enters the cellar and Dr. Raymond tells him about Lila and leaves the house to try and prove to Norman that Mary and Lila are the ones tormenting him. Meanwhile, Mary discovers that a car has been retrieved from the swamp, stunk with Toomey's dead body in the trunk. Realizing the police will shortly arrive to arrest Norman, Mary returns to warn him hysterically. The phone rings in the house. Norman answers, and starts speaking to his "mother" but it's actually Dr. Raymond who is calling Norman from the motel parlour telling him Lila used the office phone to place the calls but Norman believes he is still talking to his "mother". Mary listens in and discovers that nobody is on the line with Norman.

Terrified that Norman has slipped back into insanity, Mary runs downstairs into the cellar and quickly dresses up as Mother to confront Norman and arms herself with a large butcher knife. She picks up the phone and tells Norman she's his mother and tells him to hang up. Dr. Raymond sneaks up and grabs her from behind as she is on top of the stairs calling out for Norman. She screams and plunges the knife into Dr. Raymond as he falls down the stairs to his death as the knife squishes into him further. A stunned Mary runs downstairs and is confronted by a completely deranged Norman, who promises to cover up for "Mother." A fearful Mary grabs the knife out of Dr. Raymond's body and warns Norman to stay away from her. Norman keeps walking towards her even after being repeatedly stabbed in the hands and chest. He backs Mary into the fruit cellar to hide and slips on a pile of coal, which avalanches away from the wall, revealing Lila's body hidden behind it. A shocked Mary is now convinced that Norman has been committing the murders. Norman denies doing any of the killings and thinks "Mother" committed them. She raises her knife to stab him but is shot dead by one of the incoming police deputies. The sheriff inaccurately places a story to the authorities believing Mary committed all the murders and killed Lila to protect Norman. That evening, a woman walks up the steps to the Bates' mansion. Bandaged from his injuries, Norman has set a place for dinner when he hears a knock at the door. It is Emma Spool, the kindly woman from the diner.

Norman gives her a cup of tea. Mrs. Spool tells him that she is his real mother, that Mrs. Bates was her sister, who adopted Norman as an infant while Mrs. Spool was institutionalized. She further reveals that she was the murderer, having killed anybody who tried to harm her son. As she sips the tea, Norman kills her with a sudden blow to the head with a shovel. Norman is now completely insane again. He carries Mrs. Spool's body upstairs to Mother's room and we hear Mother's voice warn Norman not to play with "filthy girls". Norman reopens the Bates Motel and stands in front of the house, waiting for new customers. Thunder is heard and Mother watches from the window upstairs.

Plot

 * Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates
 * Elle Fanning as Mary Loomes
 * Hayley Atwell as Lila Loomes
 * Ed Harrys as Dr. Bill Raymond
 * Mark Booke Junior as Warren Toomey
 * Brian-Doyle Murray as Sherriff John Hunt
 * Demi Moore as Emma Spool
 * Vera Farmiga as voice of Norma Bates