Psycho IV: The Beginning - Trailer (HD)

Before The Terror Can End, See How It All Began
Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas and Olivia Hussey star in this chilling prequel to the classic Hitchcock thriller.
A seemingly rehabilitated Norman Bates (Perkins, The Black Hole) is drawn to a late night radio show where the host (CCH Pounder, Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight) encourages him to share his views on the topic of matricide. Reliving his childhood, Norman recounts his trials of a young boy (Henry Thomas, Ouija 2) living with his widowed schizophrenic mother (Hussey, the original Black Christmas). These haunting memories are more than just disturbing visions of the past; they threaten to rekindle his killing urge in this spine-tingling thriller directed by Mick Garris (The Stand, Masters of Horror, The Fly 2).

[@JayKhwaja]

Anthony Perkins will always be missed 😢

[@JCStorm76]

This is a forgotten movie

[@KevinJohnson-hy4oc]

My favorite part of this movie was towards the end, where Norman has his wife alone and helpless with him inside the old house, and he's about to try to kill her to prevent his offspring from being born, and possibly ending up a deadly aberration like him. But then he hesitates at the site of his demented expression in the knifes reflection, and the wife uses that moment to tearfully talk him out of it, and help him connect once again to his true goodness and mercy. And finally, the humanity in him wins out, and he drops the knife, and they both tearfully embrace. . And then he sets the entire house afire to try to vanquish the hold his awful past has over him, and exorcise the demons of his mind once and for all, but in the process stirs up imaginary ghosts of some of his past victims, who return to torment him one last time, before he manages to just barely escape the conflagration with his own life. Frankly, up till that point, I thought the movie was kind of wishy-washy, especially the way it just recycles the music from the original "Psycho" instead of coming up with a unique score of its own (like the previous two sequels had). If only the rest of the movie could have been as brilliant as the ending (which actually DID have original music), I think this would have likely been the best of the "Psycho" sequels. As it is, "Psycho II" is still my favorite.

[@ActivistBatonVI]

This movie had one of if not the most satisfying end to a franchise i've seen, not counting the remake and Bates Motel, while not great, Psycho 4's ending was so much worth it, Norman is finally free from his demons that cost him a good portion of his life and sanity.

[@igorkarelians-wpskins846]

This was good movie and I loved storyline. Great end this saga and Anthony too (rip)

[@ColdNumbzThePain]

the movie would be alot better if Norman was still in the asylum and was telling this story to a doctor.. he gets put away for 22 years after Psycho1 but only put away for 5-10 after Psycho3?? the logic makes absolutely no sense! also the sheriff at the end of Psycho3 even says to Norman that "He will never get out again" so to have Norman free in Psycho4 is just dumb and isnt logically possible. if Psycho4 was about Norman telling the story while still in the asylum and talking about his childhood and killing his mother along with a few victims and have the movie end with the doctors taking norman back to his room after documenting the story and have him sit on his bed look into the camera smile at it ends. im not a filmmaker by any means but i am a massive Psycho fan and have been since i was young and to me i feel this would have been a better plot than what we got.

[@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans]

Despite the title it's a direct sequel to pt 1.

[@ColdNumbzThePain]

@@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans how can it be a sequel to part 1 if norman got put in an asylum at the end of part 1, no its not its based years after part 3 "the old norman talking on the phone in the kitchen scenes anyway" the flashback scenes are before part 1 hense why you see his mother alive... man actually use your brain 😂😂

[@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans]

@@ColdNumbzThePain It's what the writer, Josef Stefano, said in an interview in 2008.

[@ColdNumbzThePain]

@@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans well then he was clearly on crack during the interview because anyone with a brain knows 4 is based after 3 and the flashbacks are before 1

[@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans]

@@ColdNumbzThePain Ok, if you ever meet the writer you can tell him you know what the story is about better than he does.

[@marthaschafer9367]

I've had a bit of a crush on Anthony for YEARS...! Sorry that he passed away..

[@alwayssnape4707]

...same with me..I was about13, when Psycho 2 came out. I was interested in the "Norman Bates Character", as he made me feel so sorry for him...I checked out the young Anthony Perkins and I was instantly in love 🥰🥰😉

[@shahidawan6601]

Are u alive now

[@greentorm5467]

There's always Christian Bale

[@marshastapleton1148]

@@greentorm5467 Not in the same class

[@basketcas3717]

​@marshastapleton1148 your right. Anthony perkins was gay. That's why he got aids

[@catsantiago8284]

Ay! Olivia Hussey is so gorgeous! Juliet!

[@crepesoftime]

She was also in that well known TV remake of "Ivanhoe" in 1982.

[@Joelikesmoviesnstuff]

Henry Thomas looks surprising convincing as a young Norman Bates / Anthony Perkins.

[@tombovitale2597]

Olivia Hussey was great for Norma Bates his mother she played a great part everybody was shocked that Olivia Hussey played the mother according to the movie Psycho the mother supposed to be old and shriveled up but they didn't know she was young at one time and they picked the best actress to play the part Olivia Hussey is beautiful gorgeous and a great actress I remember her and black Christmas she was great in that also.

[@keonta81]

No she was young when her killed her around 30s maybe 40.Norman mentioned in his mind she had aged

[@mckymcobvious3043]

I can't believe how SCARY she was, she's usually the 'final girl', the one even the narrative wants to protect!

[@KevinJohnson-hy4oc]

My opinion was that they never should have fleshed out the character of Mrs. Bates like that, by showing an actual actress playing her in flashbacks, because it demystified her too much. But they at least got an actress who did a superb job of playing her! The mania and enthusiasm with which she plays the character is just the right compliment to Anthony Perkin's performance of Norman, without upstaging him.

[@youtuber5669]

funny how you mentioned black Christmas in this comment i just watched it last week

[@dobmaster4412]

fun fact: this movie was filmed in Florida at universal studios Orlando

[@danielshoemaker5487]

Psycho ranking 1 PSYCHO (1960) 2 PSYCHO IV: the beginning 3 PSYCHO ll 4 PSYCHO lll 5 Bates Motel (1987 TV movie) 6 PSYCHO (1998)

[@TTundragrizzly]

Have you seen “ bates motel” the series? With Verna Fleming? Pretty good. I think there are 5 seasons??

[@danielshoemaker5487]

@@TTundragrizzly I seen the first 5 episodes before they took off Netflix.

[@aoccza7]

What are you talking about dude? This better than 2?

[@danielshoemaker5487]

@@aoccza7 They flip flop. It just depends on how feel that day.

[@myopia2893]

I prefer psycho lV over Bates Motel. I hoped for the show to be a horrific reimagining of the movie in a tv medium, as has been done by shows like ''Hannibal'' '' The exorcist'' and '' Ju on origins'' However bates motel wasn't even a real horror show. It honestly felt much more like ''Twin peaks'' ''Gotham'' and ''Riverdale'' in terms of being a cheesy unrealistic soap. And it wound up being a major let down for me.

[@deker8363]

Bates Motel was a good show but they made so many changes it barely felt connected to psycho

[@Sabiliwisely8315]

I agree with you

[@TomSaviniFan7]

I liked the show, but they made so many changes by the last season, that the original Hitchcock movie never could have happened.

[@CynthiaPeacock]

Bates Motel was my favorite, even over Psycho I, the original. By the time we were finished with Bates Motel, we understood Norman and his family dynamic. Albeit macabre, it had a very happy, satisfying ending.

[@johngbx88]

....slowly

[@jyriii]

whoever prefers the sequels or Bates Motel over the original from 1960 is an actual psycho

[@youtuber5669]

call me a psycho then but ever since i first time done listening to audiobook i prefer the real original which is of course 1959 novel by Robert Bloch

[@robertriley1569]

3 & 4 you are correct, but Psycho II is excellent.

[@JCStorm76]

@@robertriley15693 is good. This was unnecessary

[@Flux799]

Bates Motel was fantastic.

[@loayprettyboy9032]

I liked this sequel a lot it hasn't the quality of the first 2 but it's good for what it is I loved this one. Its a good one Rip Anthony you were great

[@derekseven1647]

Henry Thomas was a great Norman Bates.

[@CMONCMON007]

I had no idea there was a fourth movie wow

[@JCStorm76]

They made one too many in my opinion

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@@JCStorm76 Of course we would get the A&E prequel series Bates Motel years actually decades later.

[@TheLastLineLive]

Pretty good. Not as good as Psycho 1-3. But it had a cool idea behind it. Plus Anthony Perkins was great as always as well as Olivia Hussey. still don't feel this would be canon though since there is no way they would have let him out of the institution this time. So I consider it an alternative end to the story whereas 3 would be the canon ending.

[@amazingtheatre1262]

Have you watched it to the end?

[@bruceballygar4880]

I’d believe that the State of California would release Norman Bates. They’re so woke that they don’t know how to enforce laws anymore. Just released one of the Manson family murderers too.

[@KevinJohnson-hy4oc]

The movie could have been so much better if it was more respectful to the mythology already established for Norman's past in the previous two sequels, and had also gone into Mrs. Spool's back story. I consider "Psycho III" to be the true conclusion to this series myself, but I still grudgingly keep this one on my DVD shelf as well, because it still has some merits to it.

[@BlackLotus2]

Psycho 5 was planned for release but unfortunately Anthony passed away before production. It would have been titled "Son of Psycho" after the ending of the 4th.

[@MrBird2007]

​@@BlackLotus2I wonder what that plot line would have been like

[@rayunited2010foryou]

Man, I was so creeped out when Norma told Norman to massage her feet first and rub the liquid all over her body. That's extremely sick stuff.

[@KevinJohnson-hy4oc]

I thought that kind of thing was wrong for this movie. I never had the impression from the previous "Psycho" movies that incestuous feelings toward his mother had anything to do with Norman's psychological complex at all. It was like they threw it into this sequel just for sleaziness.

[@rayunited2010foryou]

@@KevinJohnson-hy4oc Maybe this was another side of Norman's terrible childhood. Plus it was the mother that was shown as the mentally unstable one. She really screwed up Norman's life.

[@JohnSmith-fm3pn]

I thought it fit like the tickling at the funeral just to slap his face when he giggled . She initiated that scene with the lotion aswell just to punish Norman for it by locking him in the closet . it Helped show what a bi polar psycho she really was and give a little more back story to the whole dress wearing thing

[@kait.5437]

@@KevinJohnson-hy4ocI think it came into play for Norma. I think it’s possible she had incestual feelings or the kind of obsessive boy mom behavior where women will hate any girl their son dates. I don’t think Norman has incestual feelings towards his mother, rather that he’s haunted by how he treated her.

[@imbatman9845]

great prequil !!! .......... then i watched bates motel...............…………………3 times

[@TothanCrawk]

Love this movie, gotta say though Norman's wife is extremely problematic.

[@shacks29]

I remember being in 1988 in Univeral Studios Florida and there was the Bates Motel and the new painted House with 2 Frontsides one side in brandnew painted look and the other in old and rotten....I had no idea what tha had suppose to mean till I saw Pyscho 4

[@sandiego2380]

I was at universal studios Hollywood in 2017 for the first time when I was 22 and we took the Psycho ride though I knew nothing of the movie. But it had the motel in the background and the actor playing Norman disposing the body in the car and then slowly come at us with his knife. I thought it was hilarious.

[@jamescampion7880]

I recall this film was made for cable or network tv. Not a theatrical release.

[@kkitten8183]

Pleased to see Olivia Hussey in this version. Always have liked her, but the image of her character is not a good one, and when we learned his Aunt raised him as her own, because her sister was young and crazy as him, revealed in P2, interesting choice for her role. Yes I thought Norman would never be a free man again , after P3. All interesting, but hard for me to watch sometimes, but a classic.

[@KevinJohnson-hy4oc]

One thing I didn't like about the mother's portrayal in this movie is you never get much of a sense of a good side to this woman. I keep remembering the scene in "Psycho II" where Norman was tearfully talking about the nice things his mother used to do for him, but almost everytime you see her in "Psycho IV", she's screaming and yelling at him and making his life miserable! There had to have been a significant good side to this woman, too, for Norman to have loved her so much despite all the mental abuse she was inflicting on him, that he felt so guilty and tormented over killing her, but you just don't get a sense of that from this movie. It's problems like that that make me wish Tom Holland had written this screenplay.

[@Marketoromagnolo]

you can see he was very sick Perkings in this movie, he had evident aids signs on his face

[@harsyakiarraathallah2222]

why they Never do it in Black and White Again.

[@cristianepimenta4547]

o filme, muitas pessoas me indicaram! Obrigado por disponibilizar o trailler! E a propósito, tem uma série, atual, inspirada nesse filme. O nome da série é "Bat

[@rajushing2130]

I love phsyco movie & web series' bats motal💝😍💖💓💞💕❤️💥💟⚡✨🌟👍👍👍👍

[@emmanuelfiolakis9297]

Αθάνατο έργο!

[@emmanuelfiolakis9297]

They been asking questions over 30 years!

[@johntheyank88]

this and the first are the best

[@ColdNumbzThePain]

you dont deserve to be a Psycho fan afrer that comment 😅

[@johntheyank88]

@@ColdNumbzThePain I understand the refusal to ever change and that is clearly the meaning of the first film. The last shows why the murder happened. First and last films said it all.

[@aleo1286]

2022 🎬✅

[@scudman51]

Or you could just watch Bates Motel

[@LauraVIGNON-zn3vo]

J'adore 😊

[@MANSIKKARAHKA-vr2qw]

how many they made thios.... anthony perkins was orginal norman bates

[@jgrillo638]

That is Re Animator music wtf

[@titan-tm7kl]

Actually that's what they said when Re-animator was released wtf that's the Psycho music because it was an homage to Psycho by Richard Band the composer for Re-animator

[@danzigvssartre]

"This is Fran Ambrose on K2K Talk of the Town. Today's topic: what makes boys kill their mothers. So if you happen to have killed your mother, give us a call!"😂

[@diabeticfrog338]

Underrated comment.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Nice guy....

[@janethmota1113]

Where can I watch the movie?

[@juniorpierre1926]

@@davidbolha dvd.this Fall

[@davidbolha]

YIFY Torrents or 123Movies 😉😆

[@deker8363]

You'll have to get it on DVD or Blu-ray They won't release it on any digital platforms for some reason

[@juniorpierre1926]

@@deker8363 This.fall.ok.

[@emmanuelfiolakis9297]

Υου youto once right here!

[@vShiva-bx3bi]

Indian

[@katyalobova2694]

Бред😅

[@superiorsoldier57]

Okay guys, let's get a conversation going in my section... which is better, Psycho IV or Bates Motel?

[@abdulmalikalhatmi6692]

Psycho IV was excellent, but personally Bates motel is my favorite as they gave Norma little sympathy and perspective unlike psycho IV where she is presented as villain causing Norman to lose his sanity

[@abdulmalikalhatmi6692]

@Bailey Taylor sorry I meant 4 typo mistake 🤷‍♂️

[@abdulmalikalhatmi6692]

@Bailey Taylor I wish there is part five

[@abdulmalikalhatmi6692]

@Bailey Taylor Im really sorry 😣

[@piratehunter1926]

Well ... actually the first psycho was phenomenal. and psycho II was the best too bcz it was the sequel of the first movie of the 2 sisters Lila Crane and Marion Crane . Psycho III was .... eh.... repetition and less scary (but at the end of movie when they showed norman face disguised with his mother clothes and his face expression was fantastic and creepy too). The end scene when he was in police car again and his last scary smile , they should ended right there and no more other remakes . I still didn't watched the psycho IV but obviously its going to be boring And psycho (1998) too

[@Javier23gol]

The problem with this film is that it was made for TV so they played it safe in terms of exploring deeper psychological ideas between the relationship of Norman and his mother. I like this film, just not in the same line of 1-3.

[@randycunningham7318]

Been a huge fan of Anthony Perkins since a kid. Such an interesting actor.

[@listentothenightfilms]

Decent movie, but Bates Motel buries it.