Bates Motel reinvented the Psycho movie series as an emotional family drama starring Freddie Highmore. Here's where the A&E series was filmed.

Here's where A&E's Bates Motel series was filmed. The original Psycho movie was based on the novel by Robert Bloch and was intended to be a low-budget experiment by director Alfred Hitchcock. In addition to its infamous shower sequence, the film broke various taboos including - bizarrely - a shot of a toilet flushing. The film soon became a worldwide smash and is one of the most influential horror movies of all time. Being made in the 1960s, an era where sequels weren't really a thing, it took decades for a follow-up to arrive.

The first came with 1982's Psycho II, which found Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates being released after 22 years in an asylum. It was originally a TV movie that was given an upgrade when audience interest was much stronger than Universal anticipated. The sequel explored the question of whether or not Norman is cured, and if he is, then who is committing the new murders? It's a surprisingly great thriller in its own right and Perkins' himself took the helm for Psycho III. While it's easily the odd man out of the franchise, it still has got a great score and a unique Giallo inspired tone. Perkins returned one last time for Psycho IV: The Beginning in 1990, where modern-day Norman recalls the events that led his younger self (Henry Thomas, Doctor Sleep) to kill his mother Norma.

Gus Van Sant later directed 1998's Psycho remake starring Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore, which was lambasted for being a self-indulgent, shot-for-shot recreation of the 1960 original. A much more successful reimaging came in the form of Bates Motel, which retold Norman and Norma's complex relationship in modern-day. The series was grounded by Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga's (Godzilla: King Of The Monsters) performances and its fresh take on a well-travelled story.

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. A CGI roof had to be placed on the motel for season 1 due to time constraints. The set itself remained up for all five seasons and was eventually torn down after the show wrapped for good. While Bates Motel is set in the town of White Pine Bay in Oregon, most of it was filmed in British Columbia, with Norman's school being the Seycove Secondary School in North Vancouver. Other key locations include Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver, which doubled for White Pine Bay.

Given the way Bates Motel ended a revival is very unlikely, and it feels like there's little story left to cover regardless. The final season acted as a loose remake of Psycho and provided a sad ending to Norman's saga, so it feels only fitting that the motel set was torn down once filming was complete.

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