Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Desertman84 Well,Psycho has become an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.It was released back in the 1960.There were many other sequels made such as Psycho 2,Psycho 3 and Psycho 4 that were primarily based on the Hitchcock film.Then this TV movie was released entitled "Bates Motel".It takes us to the motel wherein Norman Bates stayed.It stars Bud Cort, Lori Petty and Moses Gunn in a television film directed by Richard Rothstein.Alex West is someone who has spent time with Norman Bates at the asylum for almost 20 years.After Bates died,Alex was surprised that he was inherited the Bates Motel in Norman's will.Unfortunately,it has been vacant for many years.Alex decided to renovate it with a little help from a teenager who ran with him after he went to California.Unfortunately,Alex struggles to open the place to customers due to many mysterious events that have happened.No question that this movie went into another direction which the Psycho franchise has been known for.It lacks violence and Norman Bates was missing.It was basically a new movie that featured the motel wherein Norman stayed.No question that it isn't a classic and many fans of Psycho do not approve of it.No question that most Psycho fans always relate to the 1960 Psycho movie and not to this new movie that it was presenting that is why it has low ratings.

Rainey Dawn As other reviewers have mentioned: This made for TV film is a pilot for a TV series that never materialized nor is this film in any way a part of the "Psycho" franchise. This has become a stand alone "fanboy" type of film - so I've heard.I DO NOT recommend this film to fans of the "Psycho" film series nor would I recommend this film to fans of comedy films. Watch this film ONLY out of curiosity and do not expect anything near the "Psycho" film series because this is far, far away from them. There are only very loose connections to the "Psycho" franchise.Several things wrong with this film: It's not funny (I only got a couple of laughs out of it in the beginning), irritating characters, and the story does not make any since at all - the whole "1950s" thing with the ghost saving the woman's life should have been left out of this film - would have been much better with out it.I got this film via Amazon in the "4-Movie Midnight Marathon Pack: Psychos" - a worthwhile collection even though I am not fond of "Bates Motel"... it's still worth having in a Psycho collection for the sheer novelty of it.3/10

pauls143 I don't know what a lot of these posters are bitchin' about. What the H E double hockey sticks did they expect from a pilot for a TV series? Did they really to see Norman Bates on social security still running around in drag knocking off people in the shower or something of the like? Wouldn't that get boring after an episode or two? With that being said, I thought the creative way they blended the Bates story with some new mystery and a ghost story set a pretty good stage for some decent TV. Guess it was all that closed mindedness and lack of vision from the pubic that stopped that from happening. It's bad too, we could have had another 80s cult show.

sisterdebmac I was a fan of Tony Perkins and the original "Psycho". And I loved Bud Cort from the time I saw him in "Harold & Maude" on. What I came away thinking about when I saw "Bates Motel" though was, boy would this have made a great series. Also, who is Lori Petty? This was really one of her very first jobs. I followed her to the "Booker" TV series and I've been a fan ever since. Who would've thought that a Tennessee-born Pentecostal preacher's daughter would go on to be "Tank Girl"? I will always love this goofy little TV movie for keeping the But Cort flame alive and introducing me to Lori Petty. A note of trivia: Kurt Paul, who played Norman in this movie went on to stunt double for Tony Perkins in the big screen "Psycho" sequels and to guest star as the serial killer being interviewed by CCH Pounder in the "Psycho IV" cable movie.