What cost $800,000 in 1960 would cost $2,229,890.92 in 1980. Why the hell should you care about that?
I don't know, but look at the picture on the right. Any film connoisseur could tell which movies those stills are taken from. One is a well respected, "low budget"($800,000) thriller movie made by Alfred Hitchcock, the other is a campy 1980's slasher film (also a low-budget, $550,000) with tits and Kevin Bacon having an arrowhead shoved through his throat. What people seem to miss is that there is a connection between these two movies more obvious than Condoleeza Rice's adam's apple.
Let's start with the obvious. Both films are about a boy's (or a man if you consider Norman Bates an adult) mother committing murders. But the catch is, in Psycho, it is not the mother committing these murders (or is it?), but it is her son, Norman, doing the killing "in her name", taking on the personality of his mother while doing these crimes. As well with Friday the 13th, there isn't any real clues as to who the killer is in the film, with the exception of the town crazy, Ralph, and his warnings. As well as the man who gives the Annie a ride to Camp Crystal Lake (well, halfway there). He warns that there have been murders there, and the place is "jinxed" and tells of the boy who drowned in the lake who was given the name Jason by his loving mother.
We find out in the end of these two films that we have been deceived, that the killer is not the mother/son but the other way around. In Psycho, Norman takes on the persona of his mother and kills vicariously through her. As well as Mrs.Voorhees (what a great way of introducing this character I may say) killing through the memory of her child, Jason, who drowned because the camp counselors were too busy playing "hide the salami" to keep an eye on this boy who was a poor swimmer (so what was he doing swimming alone in the first place?).
Let's start with the obvious. Both films are about a boy's (or a man if you consider Norman Bates an adult) mother committing murders. But the catch is, in Psycho, it is not the mother committing these murders (or is it?), but it is her son, Norman, doing the killing "in her name", taking on the personality of his mother while doing these crimes. As well with Friday the 13th, there isn't any real clues as to who the killer is in the film, with the exception of the town crazy, Ralph, and his warnings. As well as the man who gives the Annie a ride to Camp Crystal Lake (well, halfway there). He warns that there have been murders there, and the place is "jinxed" and tells of the boy who drowned in the lake who was given the name Jason by his loving mother.
We find out in the end of these two films that we have been deceived, that the killer is not the mother/son but the other way around. In Psycho, Norman takes on the persona of his mother and kills vicariously through her. As well as Mrs.Voorhees (what a great way of introducing this character I may say) killing through the memory of her child, Jason, who drowned because the camp counselors were too busy playing "hide the salami" to keep an eye on this boy who was a poor swimmer (so what was he doing swimming alone in the first place?).
(listen to the score in the video above,Psycho anyone?)"Kill her mommy, kill her" Mrs. Voorhees keeps repeating throughout the painstakingly long cat-mouse chase sequence that takes up the last 15-20 minutes of Friday the 13th. Now, in Psycho, Norman basically "becomes" his mother, by having this split-personality going on, with the mother eventually taking over his brain. In Friday the 13th, it seems more of the mother killing in vengeance of what happened to her child, something she obviously can't get over. But then again, when we first are introduced to Mrs. Voorhees, she seems completely ignorant to what is going on at the camp. There's no explanation as to why she is there, but she doesn't seem to know why she is there either. So it might be possible that she has this same complex as Norman Bates does, and she just becomes Mrs.Voorhees. Like when she first enters the house and sees the dead body in the kitchen, she says " Oh, good Lord! So young. So pretty. Oh, what monster could have done this?". But after a few moments of talking with Alice, Mrs. Voorhees snaps and then goes on a rant about Jason and teenage fornication. Which then sparks the almost gratuitous chase scene.
I am done writing this for now, I forgot what point I was trying to make. I'll get back to you next year.
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