Bates Motel

Bates Motel

95 mins | Drama, Comedy, Horror, TV Movie | July 5, 1987

Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is 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 and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?

Bates Motel

95 mins | Drama, Comedy, Horror, TV Movie | July 5, 1987

Bates Motel
Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is 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 and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?
IMDb rating 3.8
Producers Universal Television
Original title Bates Motel
Directors Richard Rothstein
Writers Richard Rothstein

Cast

Bud Cort

as Alex West

Lori Petty

as Willie

Moses Gunn

as Henry Watson

Gregg Henry

as Tom Fuller

Khrystyne Haje

as Sally

Jason Bateman

as Tony Scotti

Kerrie Keane

as Barbara Peters

Robert Picardo

as Dr. Goodman

Kurt Paul

as Norman Bates

Lee de Broux

as Sheriff

Peter Dobson

as Billy Parks

Paula Irvine

as Rebecca

George Buck Flower

as Vagrant

Craig Richard Nelson

as Funeral Director (uncredited)