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“Bates Motel” Just Cleverly Recreated the Infamous ‘Psycho’ Shower Scene
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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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.

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