Horror Franchise

Psycho

Norman Bates across the original films, remake and Bates Motel television retelling.

6Titles
5Films
1TV series
1960–2013Years
Alfred HitchcockOriginal director

Franchise Overview

5Films
1TV series
Psycho (1960) First title
54 yearsRelease span
Alfred HitchcockOriginal director
2 Sequels1 Prequel1 Remake1 TV Adaptation

Psycho Movies & TV Series in Release Order

Release order
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Psycho(1960)

Director Alfred Hitchcock

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Original
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Psycho II(1983)

Director Richard Franklin

After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself torm...

Sequel
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Director Anthony Perkins

Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls 'mother'. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.

Sequel
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Director Mick Garris

When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story.

Prequel
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Psycho(1998)

Director Gus Van Sant

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Remake
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Director Tucker Gates, Ed Bianchi, Tim Southam, Phil Abraham, Sarah Boyd, Nestor Carbonell, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Roxann Dawson, Christopher Nelson, David Straiton, Stephen Surjik, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Johan Renck, Steph Green, Lodge Kerrigan, John David Coles, S.J. Clarkson, Paul A. Edwards, T.J. Scott

TV Series · 5 seasons · 50 episodes

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. T...

TV SERIESTV Adaptation
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