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What Is Norman Bates Gothic
The movie Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is a classic horror film which combines many gothic elements into a deep and intriguing story. One of the gothic elements in the film is the masculine gothic theme. The son, Norman Bates, is the perfect representation of the masculine gothic theme incorporating things such as a male being dominated by a woman and victimizing the heroine. The classic gothic theme of murder is also incorporated into the film. Norman Bates mother murders are heroin in a scene .that has gone down in cinema history as being one of the best horror scenes ever made. The whole movie has an underlying dark tone and also a mascline gothic theme. Norman Bates does what any good son would do and cleans up the mess from what
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