Psycho IV

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Green</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Rick Jones</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Norman Bates.........Anthony Perkins (Edge of Sanity, Psycho, II, III,)</B></div> <div> <B>Young Norman........Henry Thomas (Cloak and Dagger, E.T., The Quest)</B></div> <div> <B>Norma Bates...........Olivia Hussey (Black Christmas, Distortions, Virus)</B></div> <div> <B>Fran Ambrose.........C.C.H. Pounder (Bagdad Caf‚, Benny & Joon, Sliver)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Leo Richmond...Warren Frost</B></div> <div> <B>Connie Bates...........Donna Mitchell</B></div> <div> <B>Chet Raudolph........Thomas Schuster</B></div> <div> <B>Molly.......................Sharen Camille</B></div> <div> <B>Clara.......................Bobbi Evors</B></div> <div> <B>Mike Calvaccio........John Landis (Schlock)</B></div> <div> <B>Raymond Linette......Kurt Paul</B></div> <div> <B>George Emeric.........Louis Crume</B></div> <div> <B>Ellen Stevens...........Cynthia Garris</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: This would indeed be quite a radio show. Nice effect when Norman's father is in the coffin and he hears a knocking on the door. Nice to know that the onslaught against psychologists continues. The psychologist in this one is just a nincompoop. Norman remains an alluring character after all these years. He is surely the paradigmatic psycho-slasher. As Norman descends into the basement it is not unlike Virgil and Dante's descent. Watch for Cameo by director John Landis. Original score from </B><I><B>Psycho</B></I><B> by Bernard Hermann.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: On the Fran Ambrose radio show, they are discussing matricide. They have been letting out criminals at a great rate at Cedonia. Their guest is Raymond Lenett, a mother killer. THe psyche, Dr. Richmond, wrote "Boys who kill their mothers'. He doesn't like Cedonia's "therapeutic" attitude. It doesn't work. Richmond describes how thirty years ago, a young man killed his mother and then became her. Matricide is the most unbearable of crimes particularly for the man who commits it. A man named Ed calls. He admits he was in a place like Cedonia. He won't say where he's from. He's married now with a wife, Connie, who had been his therapist. He admits he's killed before and that he's going to have to do it again. He killed a girl who wanted to have sex with him. In his mother's eyes that was enough. We turn to a flashback of circa fifteen year old Norman having a talk with a sexy young girl. After she pushes enough he suggests they go into the office. When he goes off to run an errand the girl goes up to the Bates house. When he goes up to look for her, she comes near his mother's room and that seems to disturb him. She goes to his room and undresses. He leaves and she goes into mother's room. Mother seems already to be dead. He dons the wig and one of his mother's dresses. Mother! Oh God, mother! Ed allows that his mother started speaking to him soon after he killed  her but her voice wasn't as sweet. When the doctor asks where this happened, he hangs up. A woman calls Norman and mentions some good news. He seems to be disturbed. He calls again. The psyche tries to find out where he is. He offers that his mother was the product of repressed times. Ed admits that a boy's best friend is his mother. Ed says his father was stung to death by bees. Norman admits that he killed his mother's boyfriend as well. Norman's mother used to make him come and hold her in bed when it rained. When his mother finds a smutty comic she is very angry. She makes him run out and throw it away with his underwear on. Norman wonders whether his problem is genetics. He notes that he once saw his mother go into one of the cabins and lose her mind. Norman relates how he had been told to rub water on his mother. Suddenly his mother puts a dress on him, rubs lipstick on his face and locks him in the closet. The radio show people have decided he's Norman and he's dangerous. His mother told him that he damaged her bladder when he was born and that she should have killed him when he was born. What drove him to murder was the coming of the boyfriend. Norman noticed that his mother hadn't been home all night. A man drove up with her and they disappeared into apartment one. Norman came down and watched through the peep hole. She announces that she and Chet Rudolf would be getting married and he would be living in the house. Chet comes down in a bathrobe and says hi there Normie. He's a lout. Chet invites Norman out for some boxing but humiliates him. He notes his mother's bad seed is in him. Norman notes that after the last murders he wanted to die. Norman talks about the second murder while he was still a boy--murdering an older woman who had picked him up. he strangles her. When he saw his mother at the wake he snuck her out. The striknine had made her hair sparse. He had already been involved in taxidermy. Norman says that his wife got pregnant and that's why she must die. Norman is convinced in genetics but his wife believes that must be from upbringing. Norman notes this time it'll be him not his mother, just like when the stricnine went in the iced tea. His mother died in the rocking chair. We end with the climax at the old Bates house.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>