When Norman implies Marion had spoken to his mother, Arbogast asks to speak to her, but Norman refuses.
He questions Norman, whose nervousness and inconsistency arouse Arbogast's suspicion. Arbogast learns that Marion spent a night at the Bates Motel. A private investigator named Arbogast approaches them, saying that he has been hired to retrieve the money. He denies knowing anything about her disappearance. Marion's sister Lila arrives in Fairvale a week later, tells Sam about the theft, and demands to know her whereabouts. Soon afterward, Norman's anguished voice is heard from the house yelling "Mother! Oh God, Mother! Blood! Blood!" Norman cleans up the murder scene, puts Marion's body, her belongings and the hidden cash in her car, and sinks it in a swamp near the motel. As Marion showers, a shadowy figure appears, stabs her to death and leaves. Remorseful of her crime, Marion decides to drive back to Phoenix in the morning and return the stolen money hidden in a newspaper. Norman discusses his hobby as a taxidermist, his mother's "illness" and how people have a "private trap" they want to escape.
Norman returns with a light meal and apologizes for his mother's outbursts. Returning to his house, Norman has an argument with his mother, overheard by Marion, about Marion's presence. Proprietor Norman Bates descends from a large house atop a hill overlooking the motel, registers Marion under an assumed name she uses, and invites her to dine with him. Marion stops for the night at the Bates Motel, located off the main highway. Marion returns to work, decides to steal a cash payment of $400,000 entrusted to her for deposit at the bank and, drive to Sam's home in Fairvale, California.Įn route, Marion hurriedly trades her car arousing suspicion from both the car dealer and a California Highway Patrol officer. Heche was nominated for Worst Actress.ĭuring a Friday afternoon tryst in a Phoenix hotel, real-estate secretary Marion Crane and her boyfriend Sam Loomis discuss their inability to get married because of Sam's debts. It received three Golden Raspberry nominations and won in the categories of Worst Remake and Worst Director. The film was both a critical and commercial failure. 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 Steve Bartek, recorded in stereo. Both films are adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel of the same name.Īlthough this version is in color, features a different cast, and is set in 1998, 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. It is a modern remake of the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which an embezzler arrives at an old motel run by an insane killer named Norman Bates. Macy and Anne Heche in leading and supporting roles. Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures and starring Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H.
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