Get ready to check back into the bates motel. Bates motel is an american psychological horror drama television series that aired from march 18 2013 to april 24 2017.
When talking about the bates motel people often get the image of being stabbed to death in the shower by norman bates.
Bates motel real location. On a hill behind the motel there is the bates family house. The motel has 12 rooms which form an l shape. According to guests and employees of the motel there is constant ghostly activity there.
Blog posts forum. Outside there is a parking area and a large bates motel sign which tells passing drivers if there are any available vacancies. Like the original it sets its bates motel in a fictional location this time in coastal town white pine bay oregon.
Created by anthony cipriano carlton cuse kerry ehrin. The film crew happened to put up the motel s infamous sign and left it behind when production wrapped. While the locations of the original bates motel is found at universal studios in l a the series built a replica of it out in aldergrove british columbia.
However we are not talking about the bates motel from the movie psycho but the real bates motel in coeur d alene in idaho. The series a contemporary prequel to alfred hitchcock s 1960 film psycho based on robert bloch s 1959 novel of the. The set itself remained up for all five seasons and was eventually torn down after the show wrapped for good.
A cgi roof had to be placed on the motel for season 1 due to time constraints. Eastern for its fifth and final season and things will never be the same. The bates motel is now a budget motel drawing fans and paranormal investigators alike.
Bates motel wiki is a fandom tv community. It was developed by carlton cuse kerry ehrin and anthony cipriano and is produced by universal television and american genre for the cable network a e. The replica was built five weeks under a tight budget.
This bates motel wasn t just for show it s a real functioning motel complete with front desk staff housekeeping and everything that ll be on site until sxsw wraps up this weekend. The bates motel was located in fairvale california in the novel as well as the film. White pine bay bates motel bates family house pineview institute sheriff s dept community.
The psycho prequel series returns to a e monday at 10 p m. The most recent adaptation is the bates motel television series. However the set itself was built in aldergrove british columbia on 272 nd street.
A contemporary prequel to psycho giving a portrayal of how norman bates psyche unravels through his teenage years and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother norma truly is. With vera farmiga freddie highmore max thieriot nicola peltz. While the original psycho movie and bates motel tv series were not filmed on location another film was in the 1980 s.
