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- DreamWorks Land merchandise arrives at Universal Studios Florida
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- Whoville Sets from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” demolished on Universal backlot
- New and Upcoming Horror
- Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood extends Butterbeer Season until June...
- Sally Field roles that range from iconic to obscure
The “Bates Motel” project picked up more steam when Vera Farmiga, a best supporting actress Oscar nominee for the 2009 film “Up in the Air,” signed on to play Norma. Ms. Farmiga, fragile looking but with pale blue eyes that bore a hole in whatever they’re focused on, brings a subtle, edge-of-sanity determination to a role that easily could have been a cartoon. Norma is a character all moviegoers think they know — she’s a batty harridan, right? — though, discounting the various “Psycho” sequels, none have ever seen her alive.
DreamWorks Land merchandise arrives at Universal Studios Florida
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He even went through strict security measures such as a closed set, no advanced screenings for critics, and no late entrance into the theatre once the film was released. In 1960, the movie shocked the world by pushing the limits both in violence and sexuality. What was originally thought to be too inappropriate for film went on to be a widely recognized classic much appreciated throughout generations of movie-lovers. Marilyn Monroe with her skirts being fluttered by the train vent, Jackie Kennedy’s box coat and pillbox silhouette, or the fins on a 1959 Cadillac to name just a few.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Robert Vaughn, Patty Duke and Jane Seymour also appeared along with the Bates house, which got its own rags-to-riches makeover. In between its two appearances on Thriller, the house showed up in the classic Western Wagon Train. “The Eleanor Culhane Story” revolves around an old flame of Flint McCullough who lives in a crumbling mansion, shunned by everyone in town.
Whoville Sets from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” demolished on Universal backlot
The lake is named for the artificial falls built in the studio’s early days and you can still see it on the tour. Briefly during filming for the movie’s flashback sequences of a teenage Norman and young Norma Bates, the house was given a fresh yellow coat of paint, and the motel was spruced up to be lively and inviting. For the majority of production, the house and motel were heavily distressed as scenes took place about 30 years after the events in the original Psycho movie. With the movie’s adjusted production schedule, the new theme park opened with a hot set for guests to enjoy.
New and Upcoming Horror
The hotel in which Marion and Sam Loomis (John Gavin) spend their illicit lunchbreak was the Jefferson Hotel, but has been renovated to become the Barrister Place Building, 101 South Central Avenue at the southeast corner of Jefferson Street. From 1990, the building housed the Phoenix Police Museum but in 2014 it was sold by the City Council to private developers. In 1943, MCA (Music Corporation of America) founded Revue Productions to broadcast radio programmes for troops overseas during WWII. When Revue branched out into television in the 1950s, the outfit needed its own production facilities and, in 1958, MCA bought the Universal Studios film lot in North Hollywood and renamed it Revue Studios. Ten years after Norman Bates' death, a local entrepreneur has rebuilt the Bates Motel in Fairvale as a tourist attraction.
Complete digital access plus the FT newspaper delivered Monday-Saturday. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Thus, in 1998, the Psycho house—this time the victim—was slain in favor of a new kids’ play area, Curious George Goes to Town. This article was originally written in February 2021 and was updated in September 2022. In 1962 MCA bought out Universal Pictures and the one-time Revue lot is now part of the vast Universal spread. Originally it consisted of just the left wall and the front of the house.
The Bates Motel is a fictional motel situated approximately 20 miles from the town of Fairvale, California, on an old highway and first seen in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. The motel has an adjoining house set on higher ground behind the main office and cabins, where Norman Bates lives in solitude with his mother, Norma Bates. With the park expanding, the house and motel were now on borrowed time. It got the ax to make room for a new children’s attraction, A Day in the Park with Barney. The Psycho house, now unaccompanied by its infamous motel, remained standing.
The full motel was built in its current location for the filming of Psycho III in 1985, which was directed by Anthony Perkins. During filming, park guests were given the opportunity to drive by the set during breaks in production and were greeted by Anthony Perkins. As a huge Anthony Perkins fan, I desperately wish I was one of those guests that got to see the production of this movie.
In 1982 the Psycho House appeared in ‘Coming Soon’ with Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by John Landis, looking back at 50 years of Universal horror movies. The house set appeared to be setup outside the Studio Mill building (above). The house set has been moved three times since it was originally built. Built in 1960 for the filming of Psycho, the original Psycho House was placed on the hill where the Chicken Ranch now sits overlooking the Bates Motel, which sat where Cabot Cove is today. The large mansion, said to be designed after an Edward Hopper painting titled “House by the Railroad,” set the perfect atmosphere of creepy as it loomed in the background of the motel. All day the cast and crew were punking me about the impending sleepover.
It all looks startlingly like the original set, except that the house — really just a facade — has no roof. (That is added digitally for the show.) It has to conjure the “Psycho” version because “Bates Motel” is a prequel to that story. It’s about the lives of Norma Bates and her son Norman before mommy became mummy. The Bates mansion and its large hill took up a large, valuable plot of land in the park. The fraught car drive of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) was, of course, done with rear projection. These road shots used were filmed on I-99 between Fresno and Bakersfield, California.
The Origins of a SetWith the show aiming to pay homage to Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock, Universal graciously provided the blueprints from the 1960 movie, which was filmed on the backlot. However, the Bates team discovered that the drawings for the infamous house on the hill were under scale, so they were forced to start over. They’d end up building two versions — an interior on a soundstage in Vancouver and an exterior shell of the house and motel 45 minutes southeast from downtown — both of which went through some major changes.
The newly constructed motel and mansion structures, like many movie sets, were nothing more than facades with bare, unfinished interiors. Essentially, the buildings had nothing inside—only being used for exterior shots. Being a risky production, Psycho was shot on a tiny budget at Revue Studios, where the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series was filmed, using a television crew.
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And the used car lot where Marion changes her vehicle is still in operation. It’s now Century West BMW, 4270 Lankershim Boulevard at Whipple Street and Valley Spring, just north of the studio. In 1960 it was Harry Maher’s Used Car Lot, well stocked with Edsels, Fairlanes and Mercurys – one of the sponsors of Hitchcock’s TV show was Ford Motors. The shot was supposed to have been a ‘fly’s eye view’, buzzing over the city and into the hotel window (tying up to the fly on Norman’s hand at the end of the film), but the logistics of the complex helicopter shot were too much for the modestly-budgeted film. Kaley is a Southern California native who grew up within miles of all the greatest theme parks. As a nursing student, Kaley finds her peace and sanity by visiting Universal Studios whenever she gets the chance.
In the excerpt, she called her dog “untrainable” after she ruined a pheasant hunt and broke into a neighbor’s chicken coop. In response, Noem said she shot and killed Cricket in a gravel pit in front of a group of construction workers. Her daughter tragically asked the South Dakota governor “Hey, where’s Cricket? Noem defended her actions in a post on X, claiming “we love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Universal kept the house and motel set intact after production finished. The facades, still with aged and yellow paint, stood as relics of the park’s cinematic history.
