If you recall, this take didn’t focus on Norman Bates so much as it introduced us to his roomie from the mental hospital! The ’87 Bates Motel was meant to be a television pilot, but a series never quite took off.
We’re now learning this version of Bates Motel is coming to DVD in a four-film presentation from Universal Home Entertainment. It will include Psycho II, Psycho III, Psycho IV: The Beginning and Bates Motel.
The street date is September 2nd.
Of course, you can also buy this title on its own on DVD under Universal’s “vault series” banner.
Here’s the synopsis of Bates Motel from Wikipedia:
Alex West (Bud Cort) roomed with and became close friends with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates’ death, Alex finds that he is named in Norman’s will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman’s arrest. Alex travels to Bates’ California hometown (which this film has renamed Fairville from the original film’s Fairvale) and with a little help from teenage runaway Willie (Lori Petty) and local handyman Henry Watson (Moses Gunn), Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen.
