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. Alex West (Bud Cort) is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Fairvale, California and with a little help from a teenage runaway, 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?
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
Fullscreen
Release Year: 1987
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
Video/Audio Quality: B-
DVD is NTSC format, Region 0 (region free) and playable world wide.
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