Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho, and portrayed by Anthony Perkins as the main antagonist of the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The character was inspired by serial killer Ed Gein.
Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severe emotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sexual intercourse is sinful and that all women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live alone together in a state of total codependence after the death of Bates' father until Bates reaches adolescence, when his mother takes a lover, Joe Considine. Driven over the edge with jealousy, Bates murders both of them with strychnine. After committing the murders, Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, preserving his mother's corpse and assuming her personality to repress her death and escape the guilt of murdering her. He inherits his mother's house — where he keeps her corpse — and the family motel in fictional Fairvale, California.
Harrison Ford: Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot.
Plot
Boogeymen brings together 17 great horror-flick baddies of the last 40 years, ranging from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Freddy Krueger to Chuckie. Accompanying the clips of their dastardly deeds are optional FlixFacts trivia bits and an optional commentary soundtrack from Robert Englund.
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Plot
This film is based on, but not in sequence with, the Psycho films. After the death of Norman Bates, a man who befriended him in the institution inherits the motel. In keeping with Norman's wishes, he tries to fix up the place and make it a respectable motel.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, anthology, bank-manager, based-on-ed-gein, bathtub, bird-costume, bulldozer, bus-station
Norman may be gone, but the motel lives on!
You can check in but you can't check out of The Bates Motel!
Under new management
Henry Watson: Look, if you don't mind me asking. What's a fella like you doing with a postcard from the old Bates Motel?
Alex West: [referring to the urn] Oh that's not sacki, that's Norman.
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[first lines]::Lawnmower killer: Death to all teenagers who fuck.
Mrs. Doctor Graves: Poor Daddy's been under such a strain recently.::Mary Graves: If you ask me, he's acting like he just killed someone.::Mrs. Doctor Graves: Mary! Your father's a doctor... He kills people every day.
[reading a note from the killer]::Mrs. Doctor Graves: It says, "It's Halloween, it's prom night, there's a psycho loose, so don't open the door, don't answer the phone, don't look in the attic, don't go to the bathroom, don't go into the ocean, and don't go into space 'cause no one can hear you scream. Signed, A Friend."
George Kennedy: One very serious point: lawnmowers do not kill people. People kill people.
Prom Chaperone: I can't allow you to leave. You're either going out for drugs or drink. It's against the rules.::Rosie: It's okay. We're just having some kinky sex.::Prom Chaperone: Oh, alright.
Plot
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.
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The picture you MUST see from the beginning... Or not at all!... For no one will be seated after the start of... Alfred Hitchcock's greatest shocker Psycho.
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The screen's master of suspense moves his camera into the icy blackness of the unexplained!
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Norman Bates: Dirty night.
Marion Crane: Do you have any vacancies?::Norman Bates: Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.
Norma Bates: [voice-over] No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Mother, please...!::Norma Bates: [voice-over] And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers?::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!::Norma Bates: [voice-over] "Mother, she's just a stranger"! As if men don't desire strangers! As if... ohh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she'll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with MY food... or my son! Or do I have tell her because you don't have the guts! Huh, boy? You have the guts, boy?::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Shut up! Shut up!
Marion Crane: I'll lick the stamps.
Norman Bates: I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.
California Charlie: [Marion is imagining various conversations between the people she believes will be looking for her] Heck, Officer, that was the first time I ever saw the customer high-pressure the salesman! Somebody chasin' her?::Highway Patrol officer: I better have a look at those papers, Charlie.::California Charlie: She look like the wrong-one to you?::Highway Patrol officer: Acted like one.::California Charlie: The only funny thing, she paid me seven hundred dollars in cash.::Caroline: [Marion imagines another conversation] Yes, Mr. Lowery?::George Lowery: Caroline? Marion still isn't in?::Caroline: No, Mr. Lowery. But then, she's always a bit late on Monday mornings.::George Lowery: Buzz me the minute she comes in. Then call her sister - if no one's answering at the house.::Caroline: [Marion imagines the conversation later resuming] I called her sister, Mr. Lowery, where she works, - the Music Makers Music Store, you know, - and she doesn't know where Marion is any more than we do.::George Lowery: You'd better run out to the house. She may be, well - unable to answer the phone.::Caroline: Her sister's going to do that. She's as worried as we are.::George Lowery: [Marion imagines Lowery speaking to her sister Lila] No, I haven't the faintest idea. As I said, I last saw your sister when she left the office on Friday. She said she didn't feel well and wanted to leave early; I said she could. That was the last I saw... Now wait a minute. I did see her sometime later, driving - Ah, I think you'd better come over here to my office - quick! Caroline, get Mr. Cassidy for me!::[pause]::George Lowery: [Marion imagines another conversation] After all, Cassidy, I told you - all that cash! I'm not taking the responsibility! Oh, for heaven's sake! A girl works for you for ten years, you trust her! All right. Yes. You better come over.::Tom Cassidy: Well, I ain't about to kiss off forty thousand dollars! I'll get it back, and if any of it's missin' I'll replace it with her fine, soft flesh! I'll track her, never you doubt it!::George Lowery: Oh, hold on, Cassidy! I-I still can't believe - it must be some kind of mystery. I-I can't...::Tom Cassidy: You checked with the bank, no? They never laid eyes on her, no? You still trustin'? Hot creepers! She sat there while I dumped it out! Hardly even looked at it! Plannin'! And - even flirtin' with me!
Sheriff Al Chambers: Your detective told you he couldn't come right back because he was goin' to question Norman Bates' mother. Right?::Lila Crane: Yes.::Sheriff Al Chambers: Norman Bates' mother has been dead and buried in Greenlawn Cenetery for the past ten years!::Eliza Chambers: I helped Norman pick out the dress she was buried in. Periwinkle blue.::Sheriff Al Chambers: 'Tain't only local history, Sam. It's the only case of murder and suicide on Fairvale ledgers.
Norman Bates: [voice-over] Now mother, I'm going to uh, bring something up...::Norma Bates: [voice-over] Haha... I am sorry, boy, but you do manage to look ludicrous when you give me orders.::Norman Bates: [voice-over] Please, mother.::Norma Bates: [voice-over] No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and no one will drag me out of it, least of all my big, bold son!::Norman Bates: [voice-over] They'll come now, mother! He came after the girl, and now someone will come after him. Please mother, it's just for a few days, just for a few days so they won't find you!::Norma Bates: [voice-over] "Just for a few days"? In that dark, dank fruit cellar? No! You hid me there once, boy, and you'll not do it again, not ever again; now get out! I told you to get out, boy.::Norman Bates: [voice-over] I'll carry you, mother.::Norma Bates: [voice-over] Norman! What do you think you're doing? Don't you touch me, don't! NORMAN! Put me down, put me down, I can walk on my own...
Sam Loomis: You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?::Sheriff Al Chambers: Now wait a minute, Sam, are you *sure* you saw an old woman?::Sam Loomis: Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and I pounded, but she just ignored me!::Sheriff Al Chambers: You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?::Lila Crane: It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.::Sheriff Al Chambers: Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates... who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?
California Charlie: I'm in no mood for trouble.::Marion Crane: What?::California Charlie: There's an old saying, "First customer of the day is always the trouble!" But like I say, I'm in no mood for it, so I'm gonna treat you so fair and square that you won't have one human reason to give me...::Marion Crane: Can I trade my car in and take another?::California Charlie: Do anything you've a mind to. Bein' a woman, you will. That yours?::Marion Crane: Yes, it's just that - there's nothing wrong with it. I just...::California Charlie: Sick of the sight of it! Well, why don't you have a look around here and see if there's somethin' that strikes your eyes, and meanwhile I'll have my mechanic give yours the once over. You want some coffee? I was just about...::Marion Crane: No, thank you. I'm in a hurry. I just want to make a change, and...::California Charlie: One thing people never oughtta be when they're buyin' used cars, and that's in a hurry. But like I said, it's too nice a day to argue. I'll uh - shoot your car in the garage here.
Plot
When a local cycle club, invite a couple of new members to join them, little do the club realise, that they will soon be involved in a couple of illegal bookmakers putting the squeeze on the son of one of the Members, a stolen bike, a deserting soldier on the run from the police, and a love triangle, that's bound to lead to trouble. During the late 40's and the early 50's, there seem to be hundreds of these clubs. This film shows a fascinating look at a North Country mill town, with a refreshing absence of traffic jams, yellow lines , traffic wardens, and other things we have become accustomed to seeing on our roads today.
"Bates Motel?"
What name for me?
They won't catch me
Noone
Nowhere
I'll be free
'cause I'm a good guy
And I know who I am
Yeah I know who I am
Yeah
I know who I am
Noone understands me
Noone really loves me Love me (4x)
What have I done?
My mother is dead
What have I done?
My mother is dead
She's dead (3x)
I'm Norman
Yeah
I'm a good guy
Are you okay?
You seem not well...
Like thoughts of violence
Silence everything you have brought with yourself
Won't you please stay
In our motel?
We've got these linens
And decisions that we make all by ourselves
Don't be afraid
Mother means well...
Ignore the yelling
Bellowing from up behind the windowsill
Marion Crane
Would you please tell...
What brings your body
To the lobby of our cozy town motel?
I'll leave you be
No need to yell...
Wash off your skin of sin
So that my blade might penetrate it well
Please forgive me
For my sick health...
I didn't want to have to disturb you and stab you,
Stab you, stab you, stab you,...
Over and over, over and over again...
"Shut up mother,
She's just a stranger
And it's raining
I will help her"
"You stupid boy,
You stupid boy
Don't you love your mother?
Now go kill her
And stab her...
Stab her, stab her, stab her, stab her..."
Love, love
Marian my love,