There was also an unrelated 1987 TV movie, Bates Motel, involving a man named Alex ( Bud Cort) who'd befriended Norman while being institutionalized with him, and on his release learns that the now-deceased Norman has willed the motel to him. Despite Sequelitis naturally setting in, the sequels are a lot better than one would expect, largely due to Perkins performance as Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins reprised his role and even directed the third movie.
Bates personality insists that Norman is the real killer, because she can't move.īeing such a popular movie, it naturally spawned three sequels (one being made-for-TV) that few know exist. It is Norman, under the influence of this personality, who has been committing the murders. Her domination is now entirely in his head, a Split Personality sharing the persona of his mother. Twist #2: Norman's mother has been dead for years. It appears that Norman's mother may be killing off any woman he shows an interest in the local sheriff (John McIntire) mentions two other unsolved disappearances of young women in the area. The rest of the film follows the investigation into Marion's disappearance, first by a private detective (Martin Balsam) hired to recover the money she stole, and then, after he also falls victim to the knife-wielding psycho, by Marion's lover ( John Gavin) and her sister ( Vera Miles). The story, adapted by Hitchcock and screenwriter Joseph Stefano from Robert Bloch's novel published the year before, has not one but two major plot twists at the time, Hitchcock went to great lengths to keep them a secret (including one ad pleading, "Don't give away the ending it's the only one we have"), but these days, most people know about both thanks to Pop-Cultural Osmosis, even if they know nothing else about the film.Īfter that, Psycho changes gears into something more along the lines of a combination mystery and Psychological Horror story, while retaining a few noir elements. Hitchcock himself said he took inspiration from Les Diaboliques, even aping that film's meta by insisting, in a William Castle-esque ballyhoo, that 1) no one be allowed to enter after the film has begun, and 2) viewers avoid spoiling the ending to others).
One of its two leads is even played by Janet Leigh's daughter, and the other is named after Marion's lover. note Notably, John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), the film often called " The original slasher movie", includes multiple explicit references to Psycho. Probably the best-known film to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho (1960) is credited with strongly influencing the Slasher Movie genre.
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