Bates Motel
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Directed by	Richard Rothstein
Produced by	George Linder Ken Topolsky
Written by	Richard Rothstein
Music by	J. Peter Robinson
Editing by	Dann Cahn
Distributed by	NBC
Release date(s)	1987
Running time	90 minutes

Bates Motel is a 1987 television movie about Alex West, a mentally disturbed youth who was committed to an asylum after killing his abusive stepfather. There he befriends Norman Bates and ends up inheriting the infamous Bates Motel. In this televised spin-off of Psycho, Norman Bates is portrayed by Kurt Paul, who previously stood in as a stunt double for Anthony Perkins in Psycho II and Psycho III. Perkins declined involvement in the project. The film was made as a pilot for a television series, but the series was never picked up.

[edit] Sypnosis

Alex West (Bud Cort) is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After the death of Bates, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since the time of Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Fairvale, California and with a little help from a teenage runaway, named Willie (Lori Petty), Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?

[edit] Cast

• Bud Cort as Alex West
• Lori Petty as Willie
• Moses Gunn as Henry Watson
• Gregg Henry as Tom Fuller
• Khrystyne Haje as Sally
• Jason Bateman as Tony Scotti
• Kerrie Keane as Barbara Peters
• Robert Picardo as Dr. Goodman
• Andy Albin as Mr. Yokes
• Dolores Albin as Mrs. Fisher
• Kelly Ames as Beth
• Robert Axelrod as Sheepskin Salesman
• Gary Ballard as Pastor
• Nat Bernstein as Salesman
• Peter Dobson as Billy Parks
• Timothy Fall as Terry Miller
• Carmen Filpi as Buddy
• Greg Finley as Attorney
• Kurt Paul as Norman Bates
• Chelsea Peak as Herself

[edit] External links

• Bates Motel at the Internet Movie Database
• Bates Motel review
• Psycho House & Bates Motel Timeline

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