As Norman Bates is eating his toasted cheese sandwich , at night in the kitchen, a knock is heard at the back door. Miss Spool comes in and says, "I guess you were expecting me." Norman says, "I was expecting someone but I didn't know when." Miss Spool and Norma Bates were sisters and Norma stole Mr. Bates away from her and became Norman's father. When Norman was a baby Miss Spool killed Mr. Bates and kidnapped Norman. She was caught and put in a mental hospital. When they let her out she killed anyone who pestered Norman. This accounts for some or most of the murders in the former movie (Psycho).
Norman offers her tea, milk and sugar while she explains all of this to him. While in the kitchen, Norman kills her with a coal shovel. (Back of the head). He then starts to call her mother, actually thinking she was his mother, and carries the corpse upstairs to his mother's bedroom. She says she's not tired and to put her close to the window so she can keep an eye on him to make sure he's not playing with any nasty girls. Norman comes out and stands in front of the house. End of Psycho II.
In the first paragraph the last line should read (Psycho II).
To be continued as Psycho III.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Psycho II
This time as Norman is on the phone, he's either talking to "mother" in his mind or Miss Spool because she tells him to get rid of Mary Loomis for good. He says, "No mother! Mary has been kind to me. I can't kill her," and Mary hears the conversation. She tells him to hang up the phone and goes upstairs to the extension. While she is telling Norman to hang up, Dr. Raymond comes out of Norman's room and grabs her. She turns around and shoves a butcher knife in the left side of his chest. He falls over the banister to the hall floor below. Norman says, "that's alright, I'll take care of you 'cause your my loving mother." Mary argues with him and she stabs him in the stomach, chest and both hands. They fight all the way to the furnace cellar where Mary discovers her mother in the coal pile, dead. Sheriff Hunt comes in with a deputy and just as Mary is about to fatally stab Norman in the back, the deputy shoots Mary dead.
The next scene is the police station where an officer from Bakersfield has come down to Fairdale to sit in on the proceedings. Sheriff Hunt says Mary killed her own mother over Norman. The desk man of the Fairdale Hotel is there signing papers as to what Mary said to her mother the day before. Somebody says, "everybody seems to be drinking coffee." Sheriff Hunt says, "Ready to go home now Norman?" Norman Nods a yes.
When Norman goes home, he goes down cellar and replaces the flagstone in the cellar floor where the knife, dress and wig were. He then throws three shovels full of coal into the furnace and looks at his bandaged hands that are bleeding a little. He then goes up to the kitchen. This is where the whole plot of the movie changes. ......con't
The next scene is the police station where an officer from Bakersfield has come down to Fairdale to sit in on the proceedings. Sheriff Hunt says Mary killed her own mother over Norman. The desk man of the Fairdale Hotel is there signing papers as to what Mary said to her mother the day before. Somebody says, "everybody seems to be drinking coffee." Sheriff Hunt says, "Ready to go home now Norman?" Norman Nods a yes.
When Norman goes home, he goes down cellar and replaces the flagstone in the cellar floor where the knife, dress and wig were. He then throws three shovels full of coal into the furnace and looks at his bandaged hands that are bleeding a little. He then goes up to the kitchen. This is where the whole plot of the movie changes. ......con't
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Psycho II
Miss Spool was Norman's aunt - his mother's sister.
Vera Miles gets into an argument with Mary at the hotel in town where she's staying. Mary tells her not to come out to the motel or she'll be sorry. Nevertheless Lila comes out to the motel and she is followed by Dr. Raymond to the mansion. Lila enters the house through the storm cellar doors on the side and goes into the furnace room. A loose tile in the floor holds a dress, butcher knife and cheap wig. As she lifts the tile she hears a sound like footsteps and looks up just in time to see a tall woman dressed in black shove a butcher knife down her throat which protrudes an inch out the back of her neck. She is then buried in the coal pile next to the furnace.
Sheriff Hunt wanted Mary and Norman at the swamp so it must be the work of Miss Spool. Sheriff Hunt tells Mary and her mother, (now dead), to leave the area. Back at the mansion Norman is playing the piano when Mary rushes in and tells Norman they have to leave. Norman convinces Mary they'd be caught so they decide not to run. In the meantime the phone rings and Dr. Raymond is calling from the motel office but Norman answers, "yes mother", which infuriates Mary and she goes upstairs to the other phone and tells Norman to hang up and he does. They then sit and talk in the living room. The phone rings once more and this time Norman talks to his mother, probably Miss Spool. This infuriates Mary all the more. The plot is very convoluted.
Vera Miles gets into an argument with Mary at the hotel in town where she's staying. Mary tells her not to come out to the motel or she'll be sorry. Nevertheless Lila comes out to the motel and she is followed by Dr. Raymond to the mansion. Lila enters the house through the storm cellar doors on the side and goes into the furnace room. A loose tile in the floor holds a dress, butcher knife and cheap wig. As she lifts the tile she hears a sound like footsteps and looks up just in time to see a tall woman dressed in black shove a butcher knife down her throat which protrudes an inch out the back of her neck. She is then buried in the coal pile next to the furnace.
Sheriff Hunt wanted Mary and Norman at the swamp so it must be the work of Miss Spool. Sheriff Hunt tells Mary and her mother, (now dead), to leave the area. Back at the mansion Norman is playing the piano when Mary rushes in and tells Norman they have to leave. Norman convinces Mary they'd be caught so they decide not to run. In the meantime the phone rings and Dr. Raymond is calling from the motel office but Norman answers, "yes mother", which infuriates Mary and she goes upstairs to the other phone and tells Norman to hang up and he does. They then sit and talk in the living room. The phone rings once more and this time Norman talks to his mother, probably Miss Spool. This infuriates Mary all the more. The plot is very convoluted.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Psycho II (1983)
They later find Toomey's car in Falls Lake, the swamp, locked in the trunk.
Norman quit his job at the diner and decides to recondition Bates Motel by painting it a light yellow. While painting one afternoon he sees a figure up in mother's bedroom window. It's actually Mary Loomis dressed up to look like Norman's mother. Norman then goes up to the house and is locked in for hours. A moaning voice calling Norman is heard and finally Mary opens the door and lets Norman out. Mary actually did this so she could take all the furnishings out of "mother' room" down the back stairway.
In the meantime, two young teenagers enter the fruit cellar through a window and spread an old mattress out and start to smoke and fool around with each other. The girl suddenly hears a thump and freezes. Her boyfriend says she's just high and not to pay attention. A minute later she hears another thump and this time her boyfriend hears it too. They look through a opening in the fruit cellar door and see a woman in a black dress with a butcher knife. She exits through the cellar window but he's not fast enough and is stabbed to death while his fingers squeak a vertical pattern down the cellar window. She runs, falls down, and continues to run away as fast as she can. She actually tells Sheriff Hunt about the incident. The killer was probably Miss Spool.
A while later, Sheriff Hunt comes to the front door and tells Norman and Mary about the girl who is in the squad car down by the motel. The body of the boy is gone and the fruit cellar cleaned up. Mary covers for Norman.
Upstairs Norman is washing his face when the toilet gives a burping noise. Norman flushes it and blood spills over the floor. Mary comes up and is mad. A rag is found in the toilet but nobody knows how it got there. After this Mary gets her pistol her mother gave her. Norman comes up from downstairs and says his mother is down there. They decide to sleep there for the night but Norman can't sleep. There now is sort of a romantic scene between the two and she holds Norman's head in her lap. There's small talk but it's obvious there is something between them when he tells her she smells like a toasted cheese sandwich like his mother used to give him when he was in bed with a fever.
It's quite possible that Miss Spool did most of the killing, including Toomey. She gives it away at the end of Psycho II when she says, "when I saw what they were trying to do to my poor little boy I couldn't stand it so one by one.........." Miss Spool was Norman's aunt his mother.
Norman quit his job at the diner and decides to recondition Bates Motel by painting it a light yellow. While painting one afternoon he sees a figure up in mother's bedroom window. It's actually Mary Loomis dressed up to look like Norman's mother. Norman then goes up to the house and is locked in for hours. A moaning voice calling Norman is heard and finally Mary opens the door and lets Norman out. Mary actually did this so she could take all the furnishings out of "mother' room" down the back stairway.
In the meantime, two young teenagers enter the fruit cellar through a window and spread an old mattress out and start to smoke and fool around with each other. The girl suddenly hears a thump and freezes. Her boyfriend says she's just high and not to pay attention. A minute later she hears another thump and this time her boyfriend hears it too. They look through a opening in the fruit cellar door and see a woman in a black dress with a butcher knife. She exits through the cellar window but he's not fast enough and is stabbed to death while his fingers squeak a vertical pattern down the cellar window. She runs, falls down, and continues to run away as fast as she can. She actually tells Sheriff Hunt about the incident. The killer was probably Miss Spool.
A while later, Sheriff Hunt comes to the front door and tells Norman and Mary about the girl who is in the squad car down by the motel. The body of the boy is gone and the fruit cellar cleaned up. Mary covers for Norman.
Upstairs Norman is washing his face when the toilet gives a burping noise. Norman flushes it and blood spills over the floor. Mary comes up and is mad. A rag is found in the toilet but nobody knows how it got there. After this Mary gets her pistol her mother gave her. Norman comes up from downstairs and says his mother is down there. They decide to sleep there for the night but Norman can't sleep. There now is sort of a romantic scene between the two and she holds Norman's head in her lap. There's small talk but it's obvious there is something between them when he tells her she smells like a toasted cheese sandwich like his mother used to give him when he was in bed with a fever.
It's quite possible that Miss Spool did most of the killing, including Toomey. She gives it away at the end of Psycho II when she says, "when I saw what they were trying to do to my poor little boy I couldn't stand it so one by one.........." Miss Spool was Norman's aunt his mother.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Psycho I and Psycho II
It should be noted that the end of Psycho I Hitchcock superimposed the skull of his mother over Norman Bates' face just for about a half second. This was done on only a few of the movies and most of the audience probably missed it.
I was talking to a psychiatrist friend of mine and it was his feeling that it's not likely that a person can have two or more distinct personalities in the same mind. Norman had two. His mother and himself.
PSYCHO II
Norman was put in an institution for twenty two years where they erased all the bad parts of his memory under the care of a psychiatrist names Doctor Raymond. In the meantime Lila Crane, Marion's sister played by Vera Miles went on a crusade getting over seven hundred names on a petition to keep Norman institutionalized. She, in the meantime, married Marion's boyfriend Sam Loomis who, a few years later, died. She also had a girl by Sam. Her name was Mary, played by Meg Tilly. Miss Spool, who works in the local diner, plays a major part in the murders in and around the Bates Motel, although it's not known until the end of the movie when she visits,(her last visit), Norman late at night in the kitchen of the house.
Norman is released under the care of Dr. Raymond in the Kern County Courthouse under the objection of Lila Loomis who is thrown out of the courtroom by the presiding judge. Dr. Raymond takes Norman to the Motel, now in need of upkeep, and while going up the stairs to the house, sees someone in his mother's window. Mary Loomis dressed up to look like his mother. Both she and her mother Lila are trying to destabilize Norman and put him back in the institution because of his murdering Marion, Lila's sister, in Psycho I. Norman also meets Warren Toomey, the man, played by Dennis Frantz, who was hired by the hospital to run the motel while Norman was away. Frantz also had a major part in the T V series NYPD years later. Frantz says he's running a motel that makes money, drugs and all, and that infuriates Norman. Norman fires his motel manager and they part with Frantz saying, "My customers have a good time. What do yours get Bates? Murdered. Murdered by you, you loony!"
Mary agrees to stay in the house with Norman and they sit in the kitchen to eat. Norman loses his appetite and so does Mary. She says she learned from Myrna, a waitress, that he'd been locked away. Norman explains and they go to bed. Mary upstairs and Norman Downstairs.
The next thing you hear is a horn blowing at the office and Toomey yells up to the house, "Hey you nut cases I just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving." You hear a crow cawing and the next thing you see is Toomey being stabbed in the motel office by a woman in a long black dress.
I was talking to a psychiatrist friend of mine and it was his feeling that it's not likely that a person can have two or more distinct personalities in the same mind. Norman had two. His mother and himself.
PSYCHO II
Norman was put in an institution for twenty two years where they erased all the bad parts of his memory under the care of a psychiatrist names Doctor Raymond. In the meantime Lila Crane, Marion's sister played by Vera Miles went on a crusade getting over seven hundred names on a petition to keep Norman institutionalized. She, in the meantime, married Marion's boyfriend Sam Loomis who, a few years later, died. She also had a girl by Sam. Her name was Mary, played by Meg Tilly. Miss Spool, who works in the local diner, plays a major part in the murders in and around the Bates Motel, although it's not known until the end of the movie when she visits,(her last visit), Norman late at night in the kitchen of the house.
Norman is released under the care of Dr. Raymond in the Kern County Courthouse under the objection of Lila Loomis who is thrown out of the courtroom by the presiding judge. Dr. Raymond takes Norman to the Motel, now in need of upkeep, and while going up the stairs to the house, sees someone in his mother's window. Mary Loomis dressed up to look like his mother. Both she and her mother Lila are trying to destabilize Norman and put him back in the institution because of his murdering Marion, Lila's sister, in Psycho I. Norman also meets Warren Toomey, the man, played by Dennis Frantz, who was hired by the hospital to run the motel while Norman was away. Frantz also had a major part in the T V series NYPD years later. Frantz says he's running a motel that makes money, drugs and all, and that infuriates Norman. Norman fires his motel manager and they part with Frantz saying, "My customers have a good time. What do yours get Bates? Murdered. Murdered by you, you loony!"
Mary agrees to stay in the house with Norman and they sit in the kitchen to eat. Norman loses his appetite and so does Mary. She says she learned from Myrna, a waitress, that he'd been locked away. Norman explains and they go to bed. Mary upstairs and Norman Downstairs.
The next thing you hear is a horn blowing at the office and Toomey yells up to the house, "Hey you nut cases I just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving." You hear a crow cawing and the next thing you see is Toomey being stabbed in the motel office by a woman in a long black dress.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Psycho I & Zodiac
It seems strange that the tape of the Zodiac calling the police was lost. It seems that maybe someone that worked at the VPD might have taken it but this is only an assumption. More than one person had heard that tape. The tape would have given the police a voice graph of the killer which would be very, very helpful. Maybe it's still around.
Psycho:
Lila Crane then, after she had gone through the upstairs rooms, went back downstairs. In the meantime the conversation between Sam Loomis and Norman Bates in the office had become more abrasive. Finally, Norman said,"where's the woman you came here with ?" Norman hits Sam over the head and starts up the steps towards the mansion. Lila sees him coming and hurries around to the steps in the hall leading to the cellar. Norman comes in, stops, and goes upstairs. Lila looks toward the cellar, then looks up, and then looks again toward the cellar. She then goes down cellar. Then she goes into the next room which is the fruit cellar and sees Mrs. Bates in a chair. She taps her on the right shoulder and Mrs. bates slowly turns around. Lila sees a skeleton that has been dead many years. She screams. It's then that Norman comes rushing in with his mothers clothes on with a butcher knife in his hand shouting "I'm Norma Bates." There's so much screaming in the movie houses that most don't hear Norman at all. Sam Loomis comes in and wrestles Norman to the floor.
The next scene is the sheriff's office in Fairvale City Hall. All involved are there. Simon Oakland plays the psychiatrist. He comes in and says the following. "I got the information but not from Norman, I got it from his mother, that is the mother portion of Norman's mind. Norman doesn't exist. He only half existed to begin with." Lila says, "Did he kill my sister?" The psychiatrist says, "Yes..........and no." He explains that there were two people in Norman's mind, Norman and his overbearing mother. The guilt caused this and there was a constant conflict in his mind. Norman was often both personalities. He could speak in his mother's voice, Virginia Gregg & Jeannette Nolan, and answer in his own. He was never all Norman but he was often only "mother." "When the mind houses two personalities, there is always a battle. Norman stole the corpse from the grave. A weighted coffin was buried. Norman stuffed her full of sawdust and treated her body with chemicals so she would keep as best she would. He was jealous of her so he assumed she was as jealous of him. But, when reality came too close he dressed up as mother with a cheap wig he bought, a dress and a butcher knife and killed whomever was in the way. She was there but she was a corpse.
Psycho:
Lila Crane then, after she had gone through the upstairs rooms, went back downstairs. In the meantime the conversation between Sam Loomis and Norman Bates in the office had become more abrasive. Finally, Norman said,"where's the woman you came here with ?" Norman hits Sam over the head and starts up the steps towards the mansion. Lila sees him coming and hurries around to the steps in the hall leading to the cellar. Norman comes in, stops, and goes upstairs. Lila looks toward the cellar, then looks up, and then looks again toward the cellar. She then goes down cellar. Then she goes into the next room which is the fruit cellar and sees Mrs. Bates in a chair. She taps her on the right shoulder and Mrs. bates slowly turns around. Lila sees a skeleton that has been dead many years. She screams. It's then that Norman comes rushing in with his mothers clothes on with a butcher knife in his hand shouting "I'm Norma Bates." There's so much screaming in the movie houses that most don't hear Norman at all. Sam Loomis comes in and wrestles Norman to the floor.
The next scene is the sheriff's office in Fairvale City Hall. All involved are there. Simon Oakland plays the psychiatrist. He comes in and says the following. "I got the information but not from Norman, I got it from his mother, that is the mother portion of Norman's mind. Norman doesn't exist. He only half existed to begin with." Lila says, "Did he kill my sister?" The psychiatrist says, "Yes..........and no." He explains that there were two people in Norman's mind, Norman and his overbearing mother. The guilt caused this and there was a constant conflict in his mind. Norman was often both personalities. He could speak in his mother's voice, Virginia Gregg & Jeannette Nolan, and answer in his own. He was never all Norman but he was often only "mother." "When the mind houses two personalities, there is always a battle. Norman stole the corpse from the grave. A weighted coffin was buried. Norman stuffed her full of sawdust and treated her body with chemicals so she would keep as best she would. He was jealous of her so he assumed she was as jealous of him. But, when reality came too close he dressed up as mother with a cheap wig he bought, a dress and a butcher knife and killed whomever was in the way. She was there but she was a corpse.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Psycho I
Arbogast walks into the motel office and then into the parlor and notices the stuffed birds on the wall. He then starts up the three tiers ofd stone stairs towards the Bates mansion. He slowly opens the main door and goes in. He then starts the slow climb to the second floor. As he gets to the top a tall person in a dark dress with a butcher knife meets him and stabs him in the face and he falls down the stairs hitting the bottom with a crash. The killer then begins to stab him numerous times and that's the end of the Private Investigator.
Sam and Lila are still waiting at the hardware store. Sam decides to go out to the Bates Motel and does so and finds nothing except "mother" sitting in the bedroom window, not answering the door. He comes back to the store and he and Lila decide to go to see Sheriff Chambers.
They get Sheriff Chambers, (John MacIntire), out of bed. The sheriff calls Norman Bates but gets nothing except the P. I. had left. Then the sheriff tells Sam and Lila that Mrs. Bates died ten years before. Actually Norman murdered his mother and her boyfriend with iced tea laced with strychnine but the sheriff said she killed her lover and then took some herself. ("Ugly way to die,) the sheriff said.
Norman's real father was really killed by Miss Spool, a waitress in Statler's nearby diner, years before. She was in love with him but her sister, Norma, stole him away from her when Norman was just a baby. Miss Spool was put in an asylum for a while. She appears again at the end of Psycho II and tells Norman her story.
Now Sam and Lila decide that they can no longer wait so they decide to go out to the old Bates Motel and try to find out what happened to Marion, Lila's sister. They are greeted by a suspicious Norman Bates who gives them cabin #10 as man and wife. At their first chance they come up to cabin #1, the late Marion's cabin, and go inside. In the bathroom they find a clue on a piece of paper which has the $40,000 less $700 on it proving Marion was there a week before. After seeing this they decide they have to go up to the mansion on the hill and talk to mother Bates.
While Sam keeps Norman busy talking in the office, Lila goes up to the mansion and goes in. It should be noted that Norman has carried his mother down to be hidden in the fruit cellar. Lila looks around and then starts to go up to mother's room. It's all very fancy like they all were in the 1800's. Mother's body imprint is in the mattress and there is even a sink in the bedroom with roses imprinted in the basin. All very typical of that period--Victorian. It should also be noted that the floors in the house are alternating colors of oak, light and dark. Lila then goes into Norman's bedroom and finds children's toys and adult items such as a record player, 33 1/3, version of Eroica, 1803. She also finds some porno books. In the 1800's porno was done up in nameless leather covered books. (to be continued)
Sam and Lila are still waiting at the hardware store. Sam decides to go out to the Bates Motel and does so and finds nothing except "mother" sitting in the bedroom window, not answering the door. He comes back to the store and he and Lila decide to go to see Sheriff Chambers.
They get Sheriff Chambers, (John MacIntire), out of bed. The sheriff calls Norman Bates but gets nothing except the P. I. had left. Then the sheriff tells Sam and Lila that Mrs. Bates died ten years before. Actually Norman murdered his mother and her boyfriend with iced tea laced with strychnine but the sheriff said she killed her lover and then took some herself. ("Ugly way to die,) the sheriff said.
Norman's real father was really killed by Miss Spool, a waitress in Statler's nearby diner, years before. She was in love with him but her sister, Norma, stole him away from her when Norman was just a baby. Miss Spool was put in an asylum for a while. She appears again at the end of Psycho II and tells Norman her story.
Now Sam and Lila decide that they can no longer wait so they decide to go out to the old Bates Motel and try to find out what happened to Marion, Lila's sister. They are greeted by a suspicious Norman Bates who gives them cabin #10 as man and wife. At their first chance they come up to cabin #1, the late Marion's cabin, and go inside. In the bathroom they find a clue on a piece of paper which has the $40,000 less $700 on it proving Marion was there a week before. After seeing this they decide they have to go up to the mansion on the hill and talk to mother Bates.
While Sam keeps Norman busy talking in the office, Lila goes up to the mansion and goes in. It should be noted that Norman has carried his mother down to be hidden in the fruit cellar. Lila looks around and then starts to go up to mother's room. It's all very fancy like they all were in the 1800's. Mother's body imprint is in the mattress and there is even a sink in the bedroom with roses imprinted in the basin. All very typical of that period--Victorian. It should also be noted that the floors in the house are alternating colors of oak, light and dark. Lila then goes into Norman's bedroom and finds children's toys and adult items such as a record player, 33 1/3, version of Eroica, 1803. She also finds some porno books. In the 1800's porno was done up in nameless leather covered books. (to be continued)
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