Psycho (1998) on Netflix
R19981h 44mHorrorMysteryThriller
A real-estate secretary in Phoenix takes $400,000 meant for the bank and drives toward her boyfriend in Fairvale, California. Bad weather brings her to the Bates Motel, kept by Norman Bates.
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- IMDb4.6/1053,163 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes39%
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Plot summary
Marion Crane is a real-estate secretary in Phoenix. She spends a Friday afternoon at a hotel with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis. The two want to marry, but his debts stand in the way. Back at work, she is handed a cash payment of $400,000 to deposit at the bank. She takes the money and drives toward Sam's home in Fairvale, California. On the road she trades in her car, which draws attention. Bad weather forces her to stop at the Bates Motel, where she signs in under an alias. The owner, Norman Bates, asks her to have dinner with him.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Psycho (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Nicole Kidman was initially going to play Marion Crane but was forced to leave the role over scheduling problems; Drew Barrymore was also considered before Anne Heche was ultimately cast.
- Gus Van Sant set out to remake Psycho entirely shot-for-shot, but early in filming he and his crew could not work out how Hitchcock had blocked the scenes, so those scenes were only loosely based on the original.
- Because the film was shot in color, fake blood was used for the famous shower murder scene instead of the chocolate syrup used for the same scene in the original film.
- While a film student, Gus Van Sant shot a parody commercial for a fictional "Psycho Shampoo" brand that featured a recreation of the shower murder from Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho.
- Costume designer Beatrix Aruna Pasztor believed the film would be a period piece and bought period clothing for the cast, and the costumes ended up being used in the finished film.
