Psycho 1998 rotten tomatoes update#

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.

Psycho 1998 rotten tomatoes update#

Arbogast calls Lila to update her and tells her he will contact her again in an hour after he questions Norman's mother.Р”Р„rbogast 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.

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 trooper 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. 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 recorded in stereo. That set off the 'jealous mother' and 'mother killed the girl'! Now after the murder, Norman returned as if from a deep sleep.Although 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. Fred Simon: When he met your sister, he was touched by her. Therefore, if he felt a strong attraction to any other woman, the mother side of him would go wild.Р”Вr. And because he was so pathologically jealous of her, he assumed that she was jealous of him. Now he was never all Norman, but he was often only mother. At other times, the mother half took over completely. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. So he began to think and speak for her, give her half his time, so to speak. Even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep.

So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind. most unbearable to the son who commits it. Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all. Now that pushed him over the line and he killed 'em both. and it seemed to Norman that she 'threw him over' for this man. His mother was a clinging, demanding woman, and for years the two of them lived as if there was no one else in the world. Now he was already dangerously disturbed, had been ever since his father died. you have to go back ten years, to the time when Norman murdered his mother and her lover.

that is, from the mother half of Norman's mind. Now to understand it the way I understood it, hearing it from the mother.