He places Marion's body, wrapped in the shower curtain, and all her possessions - including the money - in the trunk of her car and sinks it in a nearby swamp. An anonymous female figure enters the bathroom and stabs her to death. After calculating how she can repay the money she has spent, Marion dumps her notes down the toilet and begins to shower. Marion resolves to return to Phoenix to return the money. He admits he would like this, but does not want to abandon her. She overhears Norman arguing with his mother about letting Marion in the house, and during the meal, she angers him by suggesting he institutionalize his mother. The proprietor, Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins), tells Marion he rarely has customers because of the motel's disconnection from a new Interstate and mentions he lives with his mother in the house overlooking the motel. Marion returns to the road but, rather than drive in a heavy storm, decides to spend the night at the Bates Motel. When she trades her car for another at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. A highway patrol officer awakens her and, suspicious of her agitation, follows her. While en route to Sam's California home, she parks along the road to sleep. In need of money to marry her boyfriend, Sam Loomis ( John Gavin), Marion Crane ( Janet Leigh) steals $40,000 from her employer and flees Phoenix, Arizona by car.
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In the novel set ten years after Norman Bates' death, the Bates mansion and motel are bought as tourist attractions and a series of murders begin to take place. Schow, when writing it Bloch originally called it Psycho 13. However, according to horror writer David J. In 1990, due to the pressure from his publishing company, Bloch wrote a third novel called Psycho House. Criticisms of the novel stated Bloch's writing was immature, incoherent and unsuitable for adaptation into a motion picture. In the novel, Norman Bates escapes the mental institution and goes to Hollywood to stop the production of a film based on his life. In 1982, Bloch wrote a sequel novel called Psycho II which satirized the slasher genre and mocked the production of the 1983 film version, which was created indepedently and without Bloch's input. When Joseph Stefano adapted the novel into the screenplay, he made the character of Norman young, attractive and vulnerable. In the novel, Bates is overweight, in his early 40s and drinks heavily. The character of Norman Bates was very different in the novel from in the film version. Author Robert Bloch lived 40 miles away from Gein's farmhouse and liked the idea of somebody being able to kill people in a small community and get away with it for years without being caught.
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It was loosely based on the Wisconsin serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein. Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
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He is mentally unstable due to his domineering relationship with his mother, which results in him having a psychotic twisted personality and, as a result, he occasionally kills people.Ī five-season TV series, Bates Motel, aired on A&E between 20.
The films focus on the life of Norman Bates, a deeply disturbed man who operates the Bates Motel. It mostly focused on Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho IV: The Beginning, but did cover the impact and legacy of the original film. Also, an independent documentary called The Psycho Legacy was released on October 19, 2010. Subsequently, another film related to the series was made: an Alfred Hitchcock biopic. The first film, Psycho, was directed by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho is an American horror franchise consisting of six films loosely based on the Psycho novels by Robert Bloch: Psycho, Psycho II, Psycho III, Bates Motel, Psycho IV: The Beginning, the 1998 remake of the original film, and additional merchandise spanning various media. Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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