How did Norman die
I don't mind asking cause I can't ever see myself watching this. I'm a big horror fan but in the UK these sort of things are not going to be asy to get hold of.
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It's been years since I saw this one, so I can't really say. However, it was most likely a faked death as Norman turns up alive, well, and married in Psycho IV, where he reveals his childhood to a radio DJ, including how his mother died.
shareThe Bates Motel television pilot is not acknowledged as fitting into the movie franchise. Anything that happened on the show (Normans death) is not canon for the films. On the show the death was real. In the movies there was no death of Norman, faked or real. I don't think they say on the pilot how he died. He died in the asylum, so likely natural causes as it was stated that he new he would never again experience freedom.
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Ah I see, well thanks for replying guys. Do you think he deserved to be forgiven? After all he may of been a psycho but could he really help it? Was it not more a mental illness?
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Can't tell if you're asking or making a statement, but Bates Motel was in 1987, Psycho IV in 1990. It's not acknowledged within the Psycho universe, and was just sort of an experiment that flopped.
shareThis can't have come after "Psycho IV" since at the end of that movie the house burns to the ground.
shareThis movie isn't canon to the Psycho universe.
Think of this as a bit of "fanfiction"- it's out there & happened because of someone's love for the series, but it doesn't fit into the Psycho universe at all.
While the movie states "natural causes", who knows what the ultimate goal of the script writers was? Maybe he was to show up later, having faked his death?
shareHis body was examined for an autopsy & cremated, with his remains being left in an urn for his friend to talk to throughout this pilot. I don't think Norman was gonna come back.
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