Richard Franklin
1983

I was reluctant to include this in a log of movies I'd actually watched because of the amount of time I spent while this was on discussing Meg Tilly's hairstyle (which we decided looked good on 4 people: Meg Tilly, Pat Benatar, Karen O, and that girl who cut my hair last time) with my brother and/or drifting off to sleep.
But I chose to.
We started watching this because we were changing channels and saw the beginning of the shower scene. "Hey, this is Psycho," we said after about two seconds because we've both seen it many many times.
Then after the murder some credits flashed. "Anthony Perkins in..." etc.
It was bizarre because this director had obviously seen the original about a million times. He kept quoting shots from it. Let's just say Meg Tilly takes a really similar shower.
The plot is Norman gets out of the crazy house and tries to live a valuable life. Then he starts getting weird notes and phone calls from his mother. And people start dying. Is Norman really losing it or is there something more sinister at hand?
The twist ending was pretty weak and, actually, when I think of it, better in concept than it was on film. (I won't tell because I don't want to spoil it for you.)

It actually wasn't that bad. If it hadn't been called Psycho II it would have been a fairly well-executed little thriller with some pacing problems and overly obvious stigmata symbolism. (He gets cut! On his hands! What do you think the director is trying to say?) As opposed to feeling a little like sacrilege, which for a film geek it basically is.