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“Bates Motel” Just Cleverly Recreated the Infamous ‘Psycho’ Shower Scene

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Spoiler warning. You know the drill.

The fifth and final season of A&E’s “Bates Motel” finally arrived at the iconic events of Psycho last night, with Marion Crane (played by Rihanna) arriving at the titular locale and, of course, taking a shower. But what fun would it be if everything turned out exactly as we all expected?

Playing around with horror history, “Bates Motel” spared Marion’s life in a fun scene that initially seemed to be recreating Hitchcock’s most memorable murder. After getting spooked in the shower, Rihanna’s Marion Crane humorously quipped “screw this shit,” before heading for the hills. Later in the episode, it was Sam Loomis who Norman killed in the shower.

You can watch Rihanna’s shower scene below.

Speaking with THR, “Bates Motel” director Phil Abraham talked rewriting history:

I didn’t want to just copy it, but yet it’s such a specific piece of celluloid history that you’ve got to be very careful with it. You’ve got to honor it and you’ve got to deviate from it and it’s got to be specific. People are priming themselves. The minute they see and hear about a character named Marion Crane and she’s checking into the hotel and everyone is saying, “OK, here we go!” It’s really a very purposeful thing for Bates to lean as heavily into that storyline as they did, it being a prequel of sorts. We finally are catching up to where the movie was and then to deviate from it again, beyond it, so it’s an interesting thing that the show did in terms of having its identity with Psycho and yet a separate identity as well.

From what we gather, Marion Crane will not be appearing again in the series.

On the next episode, titled ‘Inseparable’…

Norman and Mother are brought together as trouble looms large; Romero convalesces with the aid of an old friend; Dylan returns home.

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‘Alien Hunt’ – It’s an ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ Mockbuster Rolled into One! [Trailer]

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While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.

This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.

You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!

In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?

“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.

“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”

Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.

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