Bates Motel (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Bates Motel |
| Original title | Bates Motel |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Rothstein |
| script | Richard Rothstein |
| production | Ken Topolsky |
| music | J. Peter Robinson |
| camera | Bill Butler |
| cut | Then Cahn |
| occupation | |
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Bates Motel is an American television film directed by Richard Rothstein from 1987. It is a production by Universal TV distributed by the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) and had its television premiere in the USA on July 5, 1987. In Germany , the Film released on VHS by CIC Video in November 1987 . It only had its television premiere in Germany on October 29, 2005.
action
Norman Bates meets the younger Alex West at the mental institution and bequeaths his motel to him. Alex invests a lot of time and effort to restore the now very dilapidated motel. He gets help from the young and attractive Willie. During construction, Mrs. Bates' body is found and buried. Alex is now plagued by nightmares in which he sees corpses that do not exist. Mrs. Bates' rocking chair also begins to move as if by magic. Ultimately, it turns out that Alex is to be evicted from the Bates estate, but this fails thanks to the support of Willie and Henry Watson.
Action info
- The film makes reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho . Here is Bates Motel not affiliated with the psychological sequels II , III and IV , but builds on Hitchcock's original from 1960 on. The film also falls outside the scope of psychological films because of its happy ending.
- Also unlike in the psychological films, Bates Motel is limited to horror and shock scenes and contains neither the density of the originals nor their psychological framework.
backgrounds
- Filming took place in Burbank , Los Angeles and Universal City Studios California , USA .
- A series of the same name was planned, the open ending and Alex's final dialogue with the viewer himself make this clear. In fact, the final film was seen to have the basic structure of two episodes. Ultimately, however, Bates Motel was a flop, and a series never came off.
- Was produced Bates Motel for A & E , which has been successful for the story of Norman Bates later with a prequel series. The television series was produced in the USA from 2013 to 2017 in five seasons. The series Bates Motel tells the story of Norman Bates and his mother Norma based on the classic by Bloch and Hitchcock from a contemporary perspective.
Web links
- Bates Motel in the Internet Movie Database (English)