![]() This is the big question mark in Norman’s bloody career. Bobbi Evors plays Gloria in Psycho IV, where she’s first named and her death shown. Like Holly, Gloria is mentioned as a missing person in Psycho whom Norman confesses to murdering. Gloria, still not dead from the double strangulation (Norman should stick to knives), finally drowns. Mother takes over and strangles Gloria with a rope twice, then drops her body into the trunk of her car and sinks it. Gloria is an older woman who seduces Norman in her car parked before the Bates Motel. The second person Norman kills in the Mother persona. Holly is first named and her murder shown in Psycho IV, where she is played by Sharen Camille. Holly’s murder is mentioned in the coda to Psycho, where she is one of two unnamed missing girls whom Norman confesses to killing when in the Mother persona. Norman’s arousal triggers Mother’s emergence, and he stabs Holly to death when she enters Mother’s room searching for him. (A radio identifies that the Korean War was happening.) Holly attempts to seduce Norman and convinces him to go up to the house to have sex. HollyĪ young women around Norman’s age who is his first post-matricide victim, slain some time in the early 1950s. The rest of the time she’s a taxidermied corpse, with various actresses (most notably Virginia Gregg) supplying her “voice.” 3. Norma Bates is first seen alive in Psycho IV (played by Olivia Hussey), where her murder is depicted. Norma’s murder is first mentioned in Psycho, where it’s the final shock revelation, and is a touchstone for the whole series. Norma survives long enough after the initial poisoning to chase Norman downstairs to the fruit cellar, where she dies in the rocking chair that Norman would later use as the main resting place for her mummified corpse. Norman poisons her with strychnine mixed into her tea during a hot summer evening. Norman’s infamous mother, and the future identity and personality that would drive him to murder the majority of his victims. His death is shown and name revealed in Psycho IV, where he is played by Thomas Schuster. ![]() Chet’s death is first mentioned in Psycho, although he’s unnamed. ![]() He dies a few minutes before Norma, expiring on the floor of the fruit cellar of the Bates house after assaulting Norman. Norman poisons him with strychnine poured in the tea that he and Norma drink. The victims are listed below chronologically by film universe order, not film release order. Yes, a Psycho franchise project where nobody is killed. (It’s alternate canon and nobody dies in it anyway. You can purchase the three sequels in a DVD pack that includes the 1987 TV pilot Bates Motel, which you should watch only if you want to hate life. Psycho III is enjoyable schlock, but primarily it will interest horror aficionados, and Psycho IV: The Beginning is completist-only territory. But only Psycho II is really “spoilerable” because 1) you may not have seen it already, and 2) it’s absolutely worth seeing, and the twists are solid. The recent Bates Motel Showtime series takes place in an alternate Psycho-verse. For the purposes of this list, I’m only including these movies, because they form a coherent single chronology featuring Anthony Perkins’s version of Norman Bates. Norman Bates kills eleven people over the course of the events of the original series of films: Psycho (1960), Psycho II (1983), Psycho III (1986), and Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990). Since I recently did a write up on the original Halloween, it became imperative… imperative … that I chronicle the killing spree of the grandfather of the screen slashers, Norman Bates. Its sequels, however, were released when the slasher film was a firmly established genre. It was one of the critical building blocks of what slasher films would become. The original Alfred Hitchcock Psycho is a masterpiece, obviously, but it wasn’t a slasher horror film in the way we define these movies now (i.e. The only “slasher” franchise that I’m actually a fan of is Psycho. However, Halloween III is ultra-bizarre and it has the benefit of making the best use of the holiday. ![]() The only other film in the Halloween series that interests me is Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which has no connection to any other series installment. ![]() Okay, legit now: Happy Valentine’s Day Weekend.īeyond the 1978 original, I have close to zero interest in the Halloween franchise filled with numerous sequels, a partial reboot, a remake, a sequel to the re-make, and now another partial reboot sequel (I think details on the new film remain unclear at this point). ![]()
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