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He stole her corpse and preserved the body. Norman went over the edge with jealousy and murdered both of them. After the death of Norman's father, his mother found a lover. Fred Richmond tells Sam and Lila that Norman's dead mother is living in Norman's psyche as an alternate personality. Wearing his mother's clothes and a wig and carrying a knife, Norman enters and tries to attack Lila, but she is rescued by Sam.Īfter Norman's arrest, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Lila sees him and hides in the cellar where she discovers the mummified body of Norman's mother. Realizing Lila is not around, Norman knocks Sam unconscious with a golf club and rushes to the house.
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Sam suggests to Norman that he killed Marion for the money so he could buy a new motel. While Sam distracts Norman, Lila sneaks into the house to search for his mother. They find a scrap of paper in the toilet with "$400,000" written on it. Posing as a married couple, Sam and Lila check into the motel and search the room Marion had occupied. She rejects the idea and orders him out of her room, but Norman carries her to the cellar against her will. Norman confronts his mother and urges her to hide in the cellar. Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers is perplexed to hear that Arbogast saw a woman in a window, as Mrs. When Arbogast does not call Lila, she and Sam contact the local police.
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Arbogast calls Lila to update her and tells her he will contact her again in an hour after he questions Norman's mother.Īrbogast enters Norman's house and, at the top of the stairs, is attacked and murdered by the Mother figure. He refuses to let Arbogast talk to his mother, claiming she is ill.
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Arbogast traces Marion to the motel and questions Norman, who lies unconvincingly that Marion stayed for one night and left the following morning. Sam is contacted by both Marion's sister, Lila, and private detective Milton Arbogast, who has been hired by Marion's employer to find her and recover the money. He cleans the bathroom and 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. Later, finding the corpse, Norman is horrified. An unidentified female figure, presumed to be Norman's mother, enters the bathroom and stabs Marion 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. Later that night, while Marion is changing, Norman secretly watches her from a peephole in his office and masturbates before heading back to the house. He admits he would like to do so, but he 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. He invites Marion to have supper with him. Owner Norman Bates tells Marion he rarely has customers because of a new interstate highway nearby and mentions he lives with his mother Norma 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 one at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. A highway patrol officer awakens her and, suspicious of her agitated state, begins to follow her. While en route to Sam's California home, she parks along the road to sleep. Marion Crane steals $400,000 from her employer to get her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, out of debt. The film was both a commercial and critical failure and is considered one of the worst movies of all time. Murder sequences are also intercut with surreal dream images. Some changes are introduced to account for advances in technology since the original film and to make the content more explicit.
Bernard Herrmann's musical score is reused as well, though with a new arrangement by Danny Elfman and recorded in stereo.
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Both films are adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel of the same name, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein.Īlthough this version is in color, features a different cast, and has been set in a contemporary timeframe, it is closer to a shot-for-shot remake than most remakes, often copying Hitchcock's camera movements and editing, and Joseph Stefano's script is mostly carried over. Production Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.