

Both films are adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel of the same name, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. The tropes that would define that genre (including their buttoned-up morality), can all be traced to “Psycho.” It still slays. Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about an embezzler who arrives at an old motel with an insane killer name Norman Bates who runs the Bates motel.


This was a film that not only inspired a slew of imitators but also established its own horror sub-genre - the slasher movie. Find Psycho (1998): Collectors Edition (Widescreen Collectors Edition): DVD - Movies & TV Shows Check in. The fact that Leigh was murdered in the first third of the movie was one of many brutally surprising twists Hitchcock was fearless and wanted to watch his audiences scream. Janet Leigh became an icon as Marion Crane, a determined and ultimately doomed woman who steals a ton of cash and winds up in a motel on the outskirts of town, run by a creepy mama’s boy named Norman Bates (Perkins). (Someone once described seeing it in the theater as “bedlam.”) Hitchcock, working with a television crew and in the cheaper medium of black-and-white, adapted a pulpy novel (itself inspired by the infamous crimes of serial killer and graverobber Ed Gein) and turned it into something transcendent - the world’s first A+ B-movie. When Alfred Hitchcock released “Psycho” back in 1960, nobody had seen anything like it. A Day in the Park with Barney was a live childrens stage show attraction that was located at Universal Studios Florida, located in Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida.
