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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts) Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:23 PM Apr 2019

Would you stay at the Bates Motel (Psycho, 1960)?

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Would you stay at the Bates Motel (Psycho, 1960)? (Original Post) yellowcanine Apr 2019 OP

Yes! especially if they have no cable delisen Apr 2019 #1

No. It looks like all the rooms are taken... Aristus Apr 2019 #2

Place kinda looks like a dump Blue Owl Apr 2019 #3

Fun fact... jmowreader Apr 2019 #4

It was Hitchcock at his finest but it scared the crap out of me. yellowcanine Apr 2019 #5

The Birds scared me more happybird Apr 2019 #6

Sure. Norman Bates is only a little more creepy than my roommate. IrishEyes Apr 2019 #7

That was one of the movies I walked out of ...1960...Scared me...and I walked out 2/3 of the Stuart G Apr 2019 #8

delisen

(6,044 posts)

1. Yes! especially if they have no cable

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:25 PM

Apr 2019

Aristus

(66,380 posts)

2. No. It looks like all the rooms are taken...

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:30 PM

Apr 2019

n/t

Blue Owl

(50,393 posts)

3. Place kinda looks like a dump

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Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:32 PM

Apr 2019

n/t

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)

4. Fun fact...

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:40 PM

Apr 2019

The motel was a movie set, and where it was is now on Universal’s back lot. (The House is still there, and is one of the big stops on the studio tour.) There’s a scene at a car lot where Marion bullies a car dealer into selling her a car right fucking now...that car lot is now a BMW dealer.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)

5. It was Hitchcock at his finest but it scared the crap out of me.

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:45 PM

Apr 2019

The shower scene was bad enough. But I darn near had a heart attack over the stuffed old lady in the rocking chair.

happybird

(4,608 posts)

6. The Birds scared me more

Reply to yellowcanine (Reply #5)

Mon Apr 15, 2019, 01:12 PM

Apr 2019

and gave me a deep, lifelong distrust of birds. That movie freaked me the hell out. Beaks and feet, man. They give me the willies.

My bird issue has gotten a lot better. Having goofy (and flightless, lol!) chickens helped immensely, but it did take me a while to warm up to them. It's still a big oh, hell no on parrots and macaws, though. And hearing a large group of birds cawing and chattering still makes me freeze up for a split second.

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)

7. Sure. Norman Bates is only a little more creepy than my roommate.

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Tue Apr 16, 2019, 04:25 PM

Apr 2019

Yeah, I need to move.

Stuart G

(38,428 posts)

8. That was one of the movies I walked out of ...1960...Scared me...and I walked out 2/3 of the

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 04:53 PM

Apr 2019

way in. 28 years later I saw a video of the just the end of that movie...I am glad I left....Now, it was a terrifying film, but who was the director?..Did that director know how to make a terrifying film...

Yes, he did. And that terrifying film did not have to have monsters, or the world being blown up. It was an indoor job. With music, and light, and cinematic tricks to scare the sh*t out of you. Yes, that one is a great film. No I don't want to watch the entire thing...thank you...another time..maybe in one hundred years..ok?

..Repeat...NO, YOU CANNOT PAY ENOUGH TO GET ME TO WATCH THAT MOVIE...
...well.....maybe ten thousand dollars will do???
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