In what one law enforcement source called a “reverse Psycho scene,” the remains of a man—yet to be named by police and thought to be around 50 years old—was found at the Brooklyn home of his mother, Rita Wolfensohn, a woman who is legally blind and a hoarder.
http://jezebel.com/blind-woman-who-lived-with-dead-sons-skeleton-for-20-ye-1787084232
This is a reminder, perhaps, that even the strangest elements of Psycho COULD sound in real life...just in different ways.
And a reminder that Psycho is still a reference point all these years later...they haven't really reached skull-face Mother on Bates Motel, have they?
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Another reminder:
Elsewhere on this board recently there has been evidence given that Psycho owes something to "Dead of Night," and its dummy-runs-the-ventriloquist plot, and the psychological explanation at the end. Fair enough.
But "Psycho," we are reminded , has so many OTHER elements. There's no dead skeleton body in "Dead of Night."
There's also this, in Psycho:
Norman up in Mother's room when Marion first arrives, is DRESSED like his mother(believing he is her), but his ACTUAL mother is likely nearby, lying on the bed in her corpse state.
Funny how Norman could keep BOTH versions of Mother working in his mind at the same time. As the shink says(in Psycho), Norman evidently tried to make this fantasy work just with Mother's corpse for a time but "she was THERE...but she was a corpse." And hence came the creation of "split personality" Mother even as the real mother(no longer "good enough") got to hang around as a prop to put in the fruit cellar.
Very complex.
That is just a good a story as 'Psycho' and perhaps even more unlikely. I like the comments on that page; a good read.
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