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Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.
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CCH Pounder
- Fran Ambrose
- (as C C H Pounder)
Tom Schuster
- Chet Rudolph
- (as Thomas Schuster)
Alice Hirson
- Mother
- (voice)
Ryan Finnegan
- Child Norman
- (as Ryan Finnigan)
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- TriviaAnthony Perkins and Psycho III (1986) screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue originally pitched an idea for Psycho IV that had Norman's house and motel getting turned into a tourist attraction for horror weekends. Norman then escapes from the mental institution with a mute patient and the actor who was set to play Norman Bates for the horror weekend quits and Norman comes home and gets hired to play himself. Pogue claims that it was meant to be a black comedy but Universal opposed the idea.
- GoofsNorman uses strychnine to poison his mother and her lover. The lethal dose of strychnine is around 10mg and Norman's bottle reads 1.5mg/oz. He puts a maximum of 4oz into the ice-tea. Even if his mother and her lover drank the whole pitcher, it would have hardly killed them. Furthermore, strychnine is one of the most bitter substances known to man, it's highly unlikely to be swallowed by accident, even in very small doses.
- ConnectionsEdited into Psychos (2021)
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Dial N For Norman...
PSYCHO IV has a now-married (!) Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) calling in to a radio program, and telling the increasingly concerned host (CCH Pounder) about his tragically twisted early life with his mother (Olivia Hussey). Her behavior helps us to understand how / why her son turned out the way he did. Henry Thomas plays young Norman as a tormented ball of sexual confusion.
P4 is an informative, sometimes shocking backstory, as well as a satisfying conclusion to the saga. It also offers a rather expected opportunity for Norman to be up to his old tricks once more...
P4 is an informative, sometimes shocking backstory, as well as a satisfying conclusion to the saga. It also offers a rather expected opportunity for Norman to be up to his old tricks once more...
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- azathothpwiggins
- May 10, 2020
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By what name was Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) officially released in Canada in English?
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