but how did he devolve into the mad killer of Hitchcock's Psycho? A&E explores Norman's unsettling early story in Bates Motel, a prequel that premieres Monday (10 ET/PT). There's the iconic ...

Now Williamson, of Elizabethtown, has penned a novel about, arguably, Bloch’s greatest creation: Norman Bates, the titular psycho of “Psycho.” “Psycho: Sanitarium” was released Tuesday ...

In A&E’s prequel to “Psycho,” the young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore ) and his hot smother-mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), do in fact move to that spooky house on the hill and open that ...

British cast member Freddie Highmore takes part in a panel discussion of A&E's "Bates ... that Norman has with his mother was made famous in Robert Bloch's 1959 novel "Psycho" that was adapted ...

Is it safe to say that Norman is in full Psycho descent in season four? Yeah, he’s pretty fully Psycho. There’s always room to grow, but this is a whole new Bates Motel in terms of his digression.

By Lesley Goldberg Norman Bates PSYCHO - P 2012 A&E is continuing its push into scripted programming, developing series projects based on the famed hotel featured in Psycho and a Danish format ...

Not that “Psycho” was an irredeemably negative experience for Perkins. Generations from now, people will still be talking about his performance as murderously meek Norman Bates. Geeky before ...

Two years ago, Anthony Perkins reprised his original role, in ”Psycho II,” which picked up Norman`s story after his release from an asylum. And now, the ”vacancy” sign on the Bates` lonely ...

Norman Bates is a fictional character created by novelist Robert Bloch in his 1959 novel Psycho. The novel was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1960 horror film. The character is a loner who ...

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” was released 60 years ago today ... Anthony Perkins’ stammering, bird-eyed Norman Bates, the nebbish motel clerk who thinks, at certain moments, that he ...