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  • čas přidán 23. 11. 2017
  • Extreme Nerdy Horror Trivia! The history of the Psycho house, its many changes, and debating if the house that still stands on the Universal Studios backlot is really the original Pyscho house or not. Also discussing its relationship to the Munsters and Elvira Mistress of the Dark house. #retro #retrogaming #nes #snes #jamesrolfe #mikematei #atari #playthrough #gameplay #gamereview

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  • @Brozilla2002
    @Brozilla2002 Před 4 lety +656

    i swear you need to make a series called 'cinematically confused' and just talk about the history of small confusing stuff in famous films.

    • @63artemisia63
      @63artemisia63 Před 3 lety +7

      Brodie Zilla You think this is “SMALL”? How dare you! Wars have started over less!

    • @paulschultz169
      @paulschultz169 Před 3 lety +6

      Facts! More like this my nerd!

  • @HenrikoMagnifico
    @HenrikoMagnifico Před 6 lety +2358

    *I just watched a 10 minute video about the history of a house facade and I enjoyed it*

    • @e11aguru
      @e11aguru Před 6 lety +81

      It still wasn't as thrilling as the video about the piece of cardboard.

    • @BlindBabeBeth
      @BlindBabeBeth Před 6 lety +1

      +Henriko Magnifico
      I'd enjoy your comment more if your grammar was consistent.
      ...enjoyed it.*

    • @Chaos89P
      @Chaos89P Před 6 lety +2

      Redmen A No. This, talking about cinematic history, even if it's just about a façade, is not strange. I mean, isn't this one reason we're subbed to Cinemassacre (the other being AVGN)?

    • @Rheinmetall1
      @Rheinmetall1 Před 6 lety +2

      Good for you, but why type it in bold?

    • @LianRozen
      @LianRozen Před 6 lety

      Henriko Magnifico \ (👁 w 👁) /

  • @razieltalos
    @razieltalos Před 5 lety +397

    Note: the interior of the Phantom stage was dismantled and placed in storage, so only the building is gone, everything else still exists

    • @connor48880
      @connor48880 Před 4 lety +29

      Thank GOD!!

    • @LetsGoGetThem
      @LetsGoGetThem Před 4 lety +27

      Yap and they kind of had to do that since it was built with asbestos which could've killed a lot of people in the theme park there.

    • @technerdbird
      @technerdbird Před 4 lety +2

      they're moving it to a new part in the lot

    • @razieltalos
      @razieltalos Před 4 lety +2

      lemonbemon id love to check it out when its moved

    • @theduchyofmilanball3157
      @theduchyofmilanball3157 Před 4 lety +8

      @@LetsGoGetThem Ah, Asbestos, smells like the 1930s

  • @leahv5892
    @leahv5892 Před 5 lety +530

    I always knew “Desperate Housewives” was evil.

    • @barkboingfloom
      @barkboingfloom Před 4 lety +23

      They seemed really desperate to shoot right there!

    • @trentonfowler4169
      @trentonfowler4169 Před 4 lety +32

      The fact that the show fucked up some of the most iconic horror/film houses just cements my hatred for that damned show

    • @placeholdername3206
      @placeholdername3206 Před 4 lety +5

      @@trentonfowler4169 It was actually a decent show when you look past the title and get over the fact that it's about housewives in some upper middleclass suburb. Kind of a sinister vibe to it in places as well.

    • @lShadowdark
      @lShadowdark Před 4 lety +12

      @@placeholdername3206 It's not so good if you have to remove the most important parts to be "decent"

    • @63artemisia63
      @63artemisia63 Před 3 lety +1

      lShadowdark Exactly.

  • @dougtunnels6503
    @dougtunnels6503 Před 6 lety +590

    Desperate housewives are the real monster's

    • @ordinaryJeff
      @ordinaryJeff Před 6 lety +26

      A movie could be made about the changes(destruction) to that street. Now THAT would be a horror movie.

    • @dragonballsoundeffects5991
      @dragonballsoundeffects5991 Před 6 lety +14

      "Munsters"

    • @lynntaylor9681
      @lynntaylor9681 Před 6 lety +27

      Definitely. How could they just destroy the Munster's house for a stupid reality show?
      Such a waste.

    • @handsomebrick
      @handsomebrick Před 6 lety +6

      So that's why Dale Cooper was there.

    • @sebastianmunozochoa1485
      @sebastianmunozochoa1485 Před 5 lety +12

      @@lynntaylor9681 it was a dramedy show not a reality show. I think you mean the real housewives of

  • @ParadoxdesignsOrg
    @ParadoxdesignsOrg Před 6 lety +384

    Damn those Desperate Housewives!

    • @gabrieleriva651
      @gabrieleriva651 Před 5 lety +5

      "Ellie, we truly are The Desperate Housewives".

    • @frogwart2298
      @frogwart2298 Před 5 lety +3

      paradoxdesigns I call the show the extremely desperate house wives lmao 😂

    • @thalia7104
      @thalia7104 Před 5 lety +1

      IKR?? I was really happy I never watched that series, now more than ever!

    • @ambercrombie789
      @ambercrombie789 Před 5 lety +3

      I cannot escape the irony here of "Desperate Housewives" being filmed in "Psycho House". :)

    • @billsye5703
      @billsye5703 Před 5 lety

      paradoxdesigns there so desperate

  • @kristinsaur
    @kristinsaur Před 6 lety +363

    I did not know that Desperate Housewives ruined all of that. I'm pretty happy I got to do the lot tour back in 2001 before they totally screwed it up.

    • @karenbavington1870
      @karenbavington1870 Před 5 lety +9

      Me too. I toured in 2002 and photographed the house when I did the tour of the backlots. I am happy too.😀

    • @fw1421
      @fw1421 Před 5 lety +6

      Karen Bavington I did the tour in 1977 when it was still on the hill. Was still in so so shape back then.

    • @seanmcmeown1992
      @seanmcmeown1992 Před 5 lety +2

      I saw the psycho house on a tour in 1990

    • @cordeliachase601
      @cordeliachase601 Před 4 lety +4

      Kristin Terrana So? Desperate Housewives has a very good following too. Many people come to see the street because of that show.

    • @M50A1
      @M50A1 Před 4 lety +12

      @@cordeliachase601 Its a shit show though.

  • @incognitoburrito7458
    @incognitoburrito7458 Před 5 lety +131

    The Stanley hotel, which was the hotel where the Shining took place, is still a real life functioning hotel in Estes park Colorado.

    • @MrRuhu77
      @MrRuhu77 Před 5 lety +13

      Griffisuuu They did use the Stanley Hotel in television miniseries remake of The Shinning that happened in 97. It was based more on the book than the Kubrick version, but interesting that it was used for some of the shoot.

    • @mrbrown2186
      @mrbrown2186 Před 4 lety +2

      The Stanley Kubrick 'The Shining' movie was, other than a few Arial shots, filmed entirely in Britain (just like a few of his other movies - it's said that Stanley was afraid of flying, so preferred not to travel for his movies) even the movie 'Full Metal Jacket' was filmed in its entirety in England, including the Vietnam scenes (my wife got to visit the set for FMJ when she was about 12, as her uncle was an electrician on set and it was the Vietnam set, and only filmed about 5 miles from her house in Dagenham, aswell as a clockwork orange being filmed about 5 miles from this location too). You tend to find a lot of movies/TV are not filmed at the actual locations that they are set in.

    • @samuelbarber4154
      @samuelbarber4154 Před 4 lety +1

      Funny story, they actually had to change the room number where all the creepy sh*t goes down. I think in the novel it was 217 and in the Kubrick film it was 237, they did this so that future guests who visited wouldn't feel frightened or superstitious about staying in the room, although I'd feel frightened by just staying in the Hotel to begin with.

    • @caviar_dreamz
      @caviar_dreamz Před 4 lety

      Dumb and Dumber has parts of the film filmed at the actual Stanley, but the Shinning wasn’t. I visited it a few months ago it was really neat.

    • @legodroideka5505
      @legodroideka5505 Před 3 lety

      Well actually the hotel they use for the aerial shots of timberline lodge in Colorado

  • @logankerr8090
    @logankerr8090 Před 5 lety +59

    Bates Motel was filmed in my childhood hometown of Aldergrove,BC. when the township decided to tear it down(about 3 yrs after they finished filming the series), i knew it was a mistake. they should've turned the front into a diner and kept the hose in the background. that would've brought so many tourists to that small town

    • @brent7787
      @brent7787 Před 4 lety +1

      Agreed, I drove by it several times. It was really cool.

    • @63artemisia63
      @63artemisia63 Před 3 lety +1

      logan kerr A “hose”? There was a hose in the background? The Munsters did it. They were probably too busy bickering to notice that they left it.

    • @ingurlund9657
      @ingurlund9657 Před 3 lety +2

      The town council was just plain dumb. Any life or inventiveness to them and you're quite right they could have turned the motel part below into something for tourists and left the house as the backdrop.

  • @oldyellerschannel4676
    @oldyellerschannel4676 Před 5 lety +106

    The Whoville Town all around, makes the Psycho House WAAAAAY creepier.
    That movie was so weird.

    • @Courier_333
      @Courier_333 Před 5 lety +10

      Lmfao the fact that they took down the original psycho house but are in no rush to change whoville

    • @user-mv9tt4st9k
      @user-mv9tt4st9k Před 5 lety +1

      Agreed...

    • @barkboingfloom
      @barkboingfloom Před 4 lety +1

      I think The Grinch might be moving into that house, where he can lord over The Whos and scowl down at them!

    • @nicolsr2922
      @nicolsr2922 Před 3 lety +1

      The Whoville set was dismantled recently

  • @RyderDavis
    @RyderDavis Před 6 lety +194

    I own one of the pickets from the front porch of the house. I worked on the backlot in 1999, when Universal was doing repairs on the house, and took one home with me. They were being thrown out anyway. But yes, who knows if that one piece is even an original?

    • @technoman9000
      @technoman9000 Před 5 lety +8

      LOL why do you hold on to an old piece of wood you swiped from a movie lot?Live in the moment, man!

    • @bobdigi500
      @bobdigi500 Před 5 lety +18

      @@technoman9000 Spoken like a true millennial!!!!!

    • @mickesmanymovies
      @mickesmanymovies Před 5 lety +20

      @@technoman9000 It’s simply memorials and keepsakes, not understanding that - laughing at it even, makes you incredibly naïve.
      Besides, if you don't remember the past you are bound to repeat stupid mistakes and dangerous patterns.
      Live in the moment, but don't forget that the past is what brought you to that moment you're now living in.

    • @tiko5876
      @tiko5876 Před 5 lety +16

      Mikael Karlsson I say fuck that guy. That’s a cool story and a nice bit of memorabilia for you to hold onto. I’m 19 and know full well how important remembering shit can be to people, guy talking down on you must be 12.

    • @Ram-2112
      @Ram-2112 Před 5 lety +6

      I am a millenial and I'd cherish that piece of wood like the piece of history that it is

  • @sed6
    @sed6 Před 5 lety +6

    I met Anthony Perkins on a Universal Studios tour back the early 80's. He was at the Psycho house and the tram stopped and we all got to say hi.

  • @Untouchaable
    @Untouchaable Před 6 lety +363

    They made a replica of the house for the show "Bates Motel" but then took it down when the show was over.

    • @Charles-qh3yw
      @Charles-qh3yw Před 6 lety +25

      I'm sad it finished :(

    • @Miadaskate
      @Miadaskate Před 6 lety +8

      The show just ended.

    • @The_RedVIII
      @The_RedVIII Před 6 lety +8

      The show ended in April 2017, so how can they have taken it down 5 years after the show ended, when it just ended this year?

    • @OfficialEDC
      @OfficialEDC Před 6 lety +7

      RedVIII They started shooting in 2013 and ended in 2017.

    • @Miadaskate
      @Miadaskate Před 6 lety +1

      RedVIII My point exactly.

  • @SageofSorrow
    @SageofSorrow Před 6 lety +55

    I love when James gets all deep and philosophical at the end lol. He’s really an intelligent guy

  • @shaunclifton5281
    @shaunclifton5281 Před 5 lety +69

    The Myers house being moved down the street, painted, and turned into a chiropractor office was a bigger bummer.

    • @hamburgerdan101
      @hamburgerdan101 Před 5 lety +16

      at least it’s not demolished as long as people are allowed to go in and see I guess

    • @randomdude-4353
      @randomdude-4353 Před 4 lety +6

      At least the second story wasn't completely destroyed and replaced to make a dumb reality show

  • @DLaichtm
    @DLaichtm Před 6 lety +26

    HOPPER. The artist's name is Hopper. Influential American artist perhaps most well known for Nighthawks. Not everybody shares a name with a Jaws character XD

  • @Boojakascha
    @Boojakascha Před 6 lety +45

    Another fun fact: In 1987 the WOW ActionMax game "The Rescue of Pops Ghostly" was shot in the Psycho House =) This was revealed in my interview with Ron Brody in episode 46 of Light Gun Reviews.

    • @Mukjus
      @Mukjus Před 6 lety +3

      That's really intriguing, I guess the house got used quite a lot over the years.

    • @krankbomb
      @krankbomb Před 6 lety +5

      Not that I'm important to the discussion, but that game is also my namesake ;)

  • @Deadwolf27
    @Deadwolf27 Před 6 lety +727

    Why would universal destroy the phantom of the Opera set in 2014? A time when preservation is well understood. I don't get it. How could you make the decision to destroy film history?

    • @notghostpunk
      @notghostpunk Před 6 lety +99

      Deadwolf Harry Potter 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @Psyteth
      @Psyteth Před 6 lety +40

      Deadwolf asbestos.

    • @Henk14789
      @Henk14789 Před 6 lety +109

      That's fun and all, but I bet there was some pretty good decay going on. And fully restoring something that is only important for being the original doesn't make sense either.

    • @aidanlynn
      @aidanlynn Před 6 lety +116

      They only demolished the sound stage, the set was placed into storage.

    • @Hromovlad1
      @Hromovlad1 Před 6 lety +14

      Corporations

  • @RubeeRoja
    @RubeeRoja Před 5 lety +11

    I just always found it pretty fascinating that it's possible to pick up and move an entire house.

  • @markoutwithmark
    @markoutwithmark Před 5 lety +609

    Universal has no love for film history, even the parts they've created.

    • @johngurnhill4633
      @johngurnhill4633 Před 5 lety +31

      Defo true there its just pisses me off what there did to those classic films

    • @robertmartinez1645
      @robertmartinez1645 Před 5 lety +10

      Yep, and now the Tora, Tora, Tora battleships are gone.

    • @TECfan1
      @TECfan1 Před 5 lety +46

      Who cares? 🤷‍♂️ What are they supposed to do? Keep every single set from every classic movie ever? Do you know how much space that would start taking up? Most studios do this. Old Disney ride carts are destroyed, the Harry Potter sets were destroyed by Warner Bros after Deathly Hallows was done. Saving these sets is the equivalent of saving old junk in your basement just soley based on emotional connection. Even if it's never touched.

    • @anonymoushuman8443
      @anonymoushuman8443 Před 5 lety +5

      That's show business baby

    • @1979mattant
      @1979mattant Před 5 lety +10

      I agree, look at what they did to the orca from Jaws? Spielberg has spoken about how they got rid of it, they could have easily kept it and looked after it, It's a classic part of film history.

  • @thatguyontheright1
    @thatguyontheright1 Před 6 lety +29

    I've always been obsessed with the look of the Psycho house and said that if I got the money, I'd build a real one.

    • @synthtoaster
      @synthtoaster Před 5 lety

      I absolutely love the caricatures of the original syico

    • @harryfishback8173
      @harryfishback8173 Před 5 lety

      @@synthtoaster Pehaps u shood uze yr splchk so yu dontlook so stoopid

    • @synthtoaster
      @synthtoaster Před 5 lety

      Harry Fishback hahaha I know your joking 🙃 have fun idc

    • @WakingDuck
      @WakingDuck Před 2 lety

      @@synthtoaster I love your profile picture haha

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 Před rokem

      Me too.

  • @derekconnors4128
    @derekconnors4128 Před 3 lety +5

    I love how this started as some harmless horror trivia and turned into the Ship of Theseus debate.

  • @CoinOpTV
    @CoinOpTV Před 6 lety +34

    was just at universal two weeks ago and didnt see the house next to the motel

    • @mothstradamus1183
      @mothstradamus1183 Před 6 lety +1

      CoinOpTV it's up the hill from the motel, right before War of the Worlds, at the Hollywood location.

  • @Osborne4Life
    @Osborne4Life Před 6 lety +161

    I love these weekly mystery old movie videos you're doing. Keep it up.

    • @adelynbravenec
      @adelynbravenec Před 6 lety +1

      i can watch these all day.

    • @eggboi8475
      @eggboi8475 Před 6 lety

      These aren’t old films tho

    • @tapitparanormal202
      @tapitparanormal202 Před 6 lety

      yes, its awesome

    • @benson7498
      @benson7498 Před 4 lety

      @@eggboi8475 well, Psycho is 60 years old. Dracula is 90 years old and The Phantom of the Opera is nearly 100 years old.

  • @doctorhandsome
    @doctorhandsome Před 6 lety +85

    If it was next door on the same side of the street, it would be 1315 Mockingbird Lane.

    • @doctorhandsome
      @doctorhandsome Před 6 lety +8

      Good point. I was looking at it left-to-right, but it could be going either way.

    • @Acrophobia1981
      @Acrophobia1981 Před 6 lety +2

      Does it really matter?

    • @triattackambipom1961
      @triattackambipom1961 Před 6 lety +19

      @@Acrophobia1981 Yes it does

    • @Dougn57
      @Dougn57 Před 5 lety +4

      Exactly... 1314 is ACROSS the street. And we definitely don't live on a spinning ball covered with water. Lmao.

    • @robertmartinez1645
      @robertmartinez1645 Před 5 lety +2

      That's what I was going to say.

  • @hamstrungharry259
    @hamstrungharry259 Před 6 lety +765

    War though, it never changes.

    • @bradoozy
      @bradoozy Před 6 lety +10

      Hamstrung Harry LOVE ME SOME FALLOUT REFERENCES 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @lostnotyetfound6013
      @lostnotyetfound6013 Před 6 lety +37

      Some Random CZcams Commenter stop

    • @nik700
      @nik700 Před 6 lety +46

      Well, according to Old Snake, war has changed

    • @TheFettuck
      @TheFettuck Před 6 lety +22

      War, it never changes.
      Or does it?
      The war has changed.
      Did it?
      The answer is No, unless it is Yes.
      No, of course it is, is it war.
      Yes.. No.. Yes?

    • @McBummly
      @McBummly Před 6 lety +8

      war.. war never chan- (snake) WAR HAS CHANGED!

  • @seangentry2943
    @seangentry2943 Před 6 lety +6

    For added fun, there's a fan-built replica of Munster Mansion in Waxahachie, Texas that's open for tours every October.
    It's such a perfect recreation that it almost makes up for the fact that the original was remodeled so heavily.

  • @humbertojimmy
    @humbertojimmy Před 5 lety +33

    "Everything changes, man!" - No stoner hippie's t-shirt could have said it better ;-)

  • @Esatzu
    @Esatzu Před 6 lety +5

    Keep these videos coming James, i'm not a horror movie fan myself but all these "historical" videos are very interesting and fun to watch.

  • @MakNCheese88
    @MakNCheese88 Před 6 lety +70

    The gold old Ship of Thesius debate. A ship goes to battle, gets damaged, is repaired with new parts, and it continues until none of the parts are original. So is this ship still the same, or is it new? At what point does it become new? Our cells and atoms are replaced each year, so are we still us? Am I overthinking a video about a movie from the sixties?

    • @kenny-dreadful
      @kenny-dreadful Před 6 lety +3

      Adam Mathis I was trying to remember the name of the paradox! Cheers for that. Happens at the end of Wall•E too. :)

    • @cookieface80
      @cookieface80 Před 6 lety

      It was mentioned in Doctor Who as well, series 8.

    • @tbb033
      @tbb033 Před 6 lety +4

      "Our cells and atoms are replaced each year"
      WRONG, it takes something like 7 years

    • @MakNCheese88
      @MakNCheese88 Před 6 lety

      Cheers to you too Ken. Cookie love the DH reference I'm a big fan. tbb033 yeah we're not 100% replaced each year, but like the ship our parts are gradually changed out.

    • @TakaG
      @TakaG Před 6 lety +2

      You forgot the part where the old parts are used to rebuilt the ship, so you have the same ship twice. That may be a newer addition to the paradox though. ^^

  • @ExcelsiorElectric
    @ExcelsiorElectric Před 2 lety +2

    I think what makes things confusing is that both the physco house, and the Allison/Harvey house were both fashioned after a very specific type of architecture. The name of the architecture is called Second Empire. Second Empire architecture is synonymous with your typical "spooky" "haunted" house. I would say it was just a coincidence that there were just two structures fashioned in a Second Empire, architecture. Since both are similar, we're just confusing them both to be one .

  • @zacharyk.2180
    @zacharyk.2180 Před 6 lety +729

    Anyone else triggered at the destruction of cinema history?

    • @ooTina00
      @ooTina00 Před 5 lety +5

      Zachary K. Yes! 😖🙁🙁🙁

    • @KaoVamp
      @KaoVamp Před 5 lety +40

      Why would anyone do that to a 90 year old priceless relic, is what boggles my mind.

    • @riggs20
      @riggs20 Před 5 lety +9

      It's just a facade. It's not like they destroyed a real house.

    • @philip_si
      @philip_si Před 5 lety +15

      @SPAZE PARANOIDS !!!! !
      Pissed off?
      That's for pussies!
      I'm fucking outraged!!
      Who the hell tears down something with such a long history?

    • @harryfishback8173
      @harryfishback8173 Před 5 lety +3

      Itr is not real it never was it was a grand illusion a fantasy if it were actually something real in my opinion it would lose the whole concept of being a dream it would lose the sense of something we long for but cannot obtain something we knew for only a moment but remembered for a lifetime......

  • @AcidGlow
    @AcidGlow Před 6 lety +32

    *That was a nice history lesson ✅🙂*

  • @cheeseburgerops2501
    @cheeseburgerops2501 Před 6 lety +12

    Videos like this and the cardboard one are amazing I learn such interesting things from these keep making them

  • @kelsowins
    @kelsowins Před 5 lety +2

    I am giving you an A+ for your relentless persistence in searching out this part of cinematic history! I am so impressed -- you left no stone unturned. Thanks for this master class and excellent presentation!

  • @richardbinder9662
    @richardbinder9662 Před 5 lety +1

    I was 6 years old when my family drove from Illinois to California for a trip in 1970. The Psycho house was the most memorable sight. 20 years later I moved to the Valley and formed a band. Our drummer's father worked for Universal and aquired a Gibson SG guitar that was used by Michael Nesmith on a Monkees episode. I tried to trade a Les Paul and a Marshall amp for it with zero luck. Had documentation.

  • @1emerican
    @1emerican Před 6 lety +165

    That last part sounds like something from Vsauce.

  • @CommissarMitch
    @CommissarMitch Před 6 lety +34

    You could say Desperate Housewives was... quite desperate.

    • @volcanope
      @volcanope Před 6 lety +1

      Mike Fluff *CSI Miami theme plays*

  • @MikelisFeelinit
    @MikelisFeelinit Před 5 lety +16

    I love these kind of videos and your knowledge of cinema is impressive!! Also love avgn of course, but keep up the great content.

  • @superMrstylo
    @superMrstylo Před 4 lety +1

    James I loved when you were making videos of this nature (Frankenstein's brain, the Dracula cardboard one) and I must say they were by far some of the most interesting and captivating videos you've made in a while. Please bring this series back! They were honestly all such a joy to watch and I'd love if you continued it.

  • @ZekeAxel
    @ZekeAxel Před 6 lety +110

    Ah... the Ship of Theseus paradox? Surprised it wasn't name dropped.

    • @handsomebrick
      @handsomebrick Před 6 lety +2

      Except this is a next level Ship of Theseus. Is it still the same ship if it gets repurposed into a house?

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil Před 6 lety

      Just what I was going to post. Good old paradox that have confounded people for for ages.

    • @handsomebrick
      @handsomebrick Před 6 lety

      In Eastern cultures it doesn't confound anyone, they never have any doubt that it is the same ship.

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil Před 6 lety +3

      I am pretty sure you can set up a scenario where it would confound even eastern philosophers. If you do not do away with the whole concept of identity all together that is. Which some do.

    • @RottenDoctorGonzo
      @RottenDoctorGonzo Před 6 lety

      StarTsurugi
      You're so clever.

  • @ryanwilhite
    @ryanwilhite Před 6 lety +65

    Nobody came running out with a knife when I took the Universal Studios tour a couple years ago

    • @michaelprimiani9181
      @michaelprimiani9181 Před 6 lety +21

      Norman Bates was in the window (an effect, not an actor) when I went in 2012

    • @lo1bo2
      @lo1bo2 Před 6 lety +32

      When I took the tour twice in the last 10 years, "Norman" came out of the hotel (not the house) carrying Marion, put her in the trunk of his car, and approached the last car in the tram to make people scream. It was fun.

    • @ryanwilhite
      @ryanwilhite Před 6 lety

      There may have been a Norman cutout but I'm pretty sure the tram we were in never even stopped in front of the house when I went. I remember struggling to get a good picture of it.

    • @Derkman96
      @Derkman96 Před 6 lety +34

      Maybe it wasn't part of the tour... just some dude with a knife that James thought was supposed to be Norman

    • @jsw4227
      @jsw4227 Před 6 lety +4

      There is a story about jim Carrey going out there with a knife and he wasn't supposed to be there

  • @verybigkittens7550
    @verybigkittens7550 Před 5 lety +18

    It was still there on the universal studios back lot in 1991. went for a tour round it.

    • @boborrahood
      @boborrahood Před 4 lety

      But if you saw this video and you're also a Hitchcok fan and movie history buff this is just a pale imitation in a third location marred by large sets from other movies hovering over and around it. Exisiting for the casual tourist.

  • @DavidSmith-sb2ix
    @DavidSmith-sb2ix Před 5 lety +48

    The Psycho house would be 1311 or 1315 if it was next to the Munsters.

    • @dtrainbcca
      @dtrainbcca Před 5 lety +5

      lol funny how quickly James forgot how addresses work

    • @JosephJamesScott
      @JosephJamesScott Před 5 lety +6

      I was thinking the same thing, 1314 would be across the street

    • @bytheway0416
      @bytheway0416 Před 5 lety +3

      Came here for this comment

    • @KutWrite
      @KutWrite Před 5 lety +2

      Or 1317 or 1309... Not all addresses increment or decrement by 2. It depends how many multiples of the smallest lot size a particular property is.

    • @laflaca6666
      @laflaca6666 Před 3 lety

      Butch Patrick would play in the Pshyco house when they were not filming The Munsters.

  • @pileggitech
    @pileggitech Před 6 lety +17

    Here's the coordinates to the house in Haverstraw, NY that's mentioned in this video: 41.1952772,-73.9702087

  • @zerozeroone4424
    @zerozeroone4424 Před 6 lety +20

    Psycho is still one of my favorite films of all time

  • @BubblingSyphilisSund
    @BubblingSyphilisSund Před 6 lety +4

    Words can't express how much I love these videos.

  • @ulfberht4431
    @ulfberht4431 Před 6 lety +1

    God, I really love these new kind of videos James is doing. They’re really intriguing and I love the whole mystery and analysis behind them. Just goes to show that the most tiniest bit of trivia can be very entertaining. But I wonder, what should we call these kind of videos? Trivia Tuesdays?

  • @SupesMe
    @SupesMe Před 6 lety +7

    I oddly really like Psycho IV. With Henry Thomas as young Norman. He really nailed it

  • @ZicoTops
    @ZicoTops Před 6 lety +70

    I dream of watching you on the H3 Podcast.

    • @derdingobaron
      @derdingobaron Před 6 lety +4

      I coincidentally just found out about the H3 Podcast today and was thinking the same.

  • @james_fisch
    @james_fisch Před 6 lety

    Very well done video essay, James! These are the kinds of videos I love to watch. I never thought much about the Psycho house until you began dissecting the facade and possible places it went.

  • @RicardoRibeiro2000
    @RicardoRibeiro2000 Před 6 lety +8

    The Psycho house was used on the episode Halloween Knight of 80's Knight Rider show!

  • @sweepingtime
    @sweepingtime Před 6 lety +30

    "We know that Psycho 4..." Wait what, there was more than 1 Psycho movie!?

    • @hairyson94
      @hairyson94 Před 6 lety +3

      Agreed. Psycho 2 is a shockingly good film, for what it is

    • @canto1408
      @canto1408 Před 6 lety +2

      Actually the third one was directed by Perkins, the fourth one was directed by Mick Garris.

    • @phantomzone2725
      @phantomzone2725 Před 6 lety +1

      Also don't forget the 1987 pilot to Bates Motel.

    • @DimitrisGenn
      @DimitrisGenn Před 6 lety

      Theodore Roosevelt Does it even count as a remake? It's basically a coloured version one, just with out the good acting and creepines.

    • @TheMrRuttazzo
      @TheMrRuttazzo Před 6 lety

      I pretty much felt the same way about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Didn't know there were several sequels until I watched James' review of them.

  • @MiddleAgedNerd
    @MiddleAgedNerd Před 6 lety +18

    Naw, in California the house next door to 1313 Mockingbird lane would be either 1311 or 1315.

  • @SnicketySlice
    @SnicketySlice Před 6 lety +1

    Was expecting a simple video on the Psycho house.
    Instead got deep into the ship of thesus paradox. Love these vids.

  • @tsarbutterfly663
    @tsarbutterfly663 Před 5 lety +13

    I’m surprised he didn’t bring up the _Evil Dead_ cabin-

    • @Dabajaws
      @Dabajaws Před 4 lety +2

      Don't even get me started on that one

    • @samuelchurch5124
      @samuelchurch5124 Před 4 lety +2

      Why what happened with that?

    • @theweedeater1842
      @theweedeater1842 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Dabajaws WHAT HAPPENED TO IT IT'S BEEN 7 MONTHS I NEED TO KNOW

  • @PositronPlays
    @PositronPlays Před 6 lety +105

    Ha, I never noticed that in The Burbs

    • @matmoome
      @matmoome Před 6 lety +1

      Positron scoot the burbs

  • @MrThankman360
    @MrThankman360 Před 6 lety +35

    Ugh! Desperate Housewives ruined cinematic history.

  • @Violator99
    @Violator99 Před 6 lety

    These horror movie historical mystery vids are quickly becoming my favorite Cinemassacre videos. Please keep up the great work and keep making more of these. Pleeeeeease!

  • @dondevice3342
    @dondevice3342 Před 5 lety +12

    You're running into the good old 'Ship of Theseus" paradox, my friend!

    • @im1who84u
      @im1who84u Před 5 lety +4

      So...... if you had a sledge hammer and the handle broke and you replaced it and then years later the actual hammer head cracked in half so you replaced it. Would it still be the same hammer?

    • @BadWebDiver
      @BadWebDiver Před 5 lety +2

      Exactly what I thought...

    • @dondevice3342
      @dondevice3342 Před 5 lety +1

      @@im1who84u Depends-- how hammered am I supposed to be?

  • @nucleurchicken5239
    @nucleurchicken5239 Před 5 lety +7

    I live a simple life. I see James, I watch.

  • @Falconwing_01
    @Falconwing_01 Před 5 lety +3

    well done, very informative. something I never thought about, but found it fascinating. thank you.

  • @boborrahood
    @boborrahood Před 6 lety

    Thanks for the most thorough history of the iconic Psycho house and Bates Motel set. So many tourists are led to believe the one on the Universal Studios backlot tour is the original one. After being dismantled and moved from it's original location near Singapore Lake on the backlot in 1980, it has gradually lost it's original connection to Hitchcock's classic, being moved another time and compromised with other movie sets surrounding it in it's latest location. A road for the tram goes right past the front porch of the latest Psycho house model, directly next door to a massive set of plane wreckage, destroyed houses and cars from the remake of War of the Worlds.

  • @LextheRobot
    @LextheRobot Před 5 lety +2

    This is some real 'Ship of Theseus' pondering here, especially right at the end.

  • @sovietonion72
    @sovietonion72 Před 5 lety +11

    Also reminds me of the Marsden house in Salems Lot. Also a facade.

    • @dalemcnamee2427
      @dalemcnamee2427 Před 5 lety +3

      The 29 Niebolt Street house from "IT" is a facade too...

  • @FlyingKipperEh
    @FlyingKipperEh Před 6 lety +135

    Still super super angry about the whole phantom of the opera set being demolished! Fucking Harry Potter.

    • @jlimbac0
      @jlimbac0 Před 6 lety +29

      Yeah, couldn't have anything to do with epic levels of asbestos on the set. Must be Harry Potters fault.

    • @Goleon
      @Goleon Před 6 lety +13

      The stage had stuff in it that could kill everyone in the park if it got into in the air and before you ask why they had that in there to begin with, take in when the film was made. The safety measures we have now and the understanding on what's deadly wasn't really there at that time.

    • @FlyingKipperEh
      @FlyingKipperEh Před 6 lety +6

      Do not get all over defensive about it. I know why they had to demolish it, but it is still a sad thing. And fuck Harry Potter.

    • @bradoozy
      @bradoozy Před 6 lety

      Vesa Laine Cursed Child sucks ass I don’t know why they needed a fucking stage play about the shitty book

    • @bradoozy
      @bradoozy Před 6 lety

      Vesa Laine I do love HP but the fans say Cursed Child sucks ass. IM GOING TO GO MAKE AN AMINO POLL AND CHECK

  •  Před 6 lety

    I gotta say.... I have been following you since the day you uploaded the Simon's Quest video... and THIS turned out to be my favorite Cinemassacre video. Who knew.

  • @nkley1
    @nkley1 Před 5 lety

    I remember driving past the Psycho House back in the very early 1980’s at Universal. Yes, the motel was gone, but that awesome “house” was still there....up on the hill. Creeped me out, and loved it. From what I remember, the tour bus drove right down the street to the “ Leave It To Beaver” house. What a great neighborhood. I could just imagine Wally, the Beav, and Lumpy getting into real trouble when Eddie Haskell dares them to walk up the stairs and knock on the Psycho house front door. “Hey Beav....whadda ya chicken. It’s only an old lady that lives in there”.

  • @poposterous236
    @poposterous236 Před 6 lety +126

    The Angry Video Game Philosopher

  • @barrycohen311
    @barrycohen311 Před 5 lety +8

    "A boy's best friend is his Mother."

  • @Christian_from_Copenhagen

    Classic Ship of Theseus situation! Great video.

  • @Cutelatinguy2
    @Cutelatinguy2 Před 6 lety +1

    Not sure if anybody pointed this out, but Elvira's house was actually filmed on the WB lot, as was most of the movie's exterior scenes. Or at least it was, it has been torn down. I worked at WB in the early 90s and it was at the end of the neighborhood street.

  • @skepticallypwnd
    @skepticallypwnd Před 6 lety +15

    13*15* mockingbird Lane. Addresses are all odd or even on each side of the street.

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt Před 6 lety

      Err...that's how houses are numbered everywhere in the world...
      Get out more?

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 Před 6 lety +1

      teppolundgren Nope, we have a Street just up the road from us, the numbers go 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 next to each other.

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt Před 6 lety +1

      +julie Wallis Silence!

  • @jaybrooks1098
    @jaybrooks1098 Před 5 lety +6

    Pretty sure these were all sears houses. AKA “Craftsman” houses or at least plans from sears. The parts list and demential list with lengths are listed. Very easy to build and get manufactured cheap from a off site location and shipped in kit form to the stage or lot.

  • @frenchjr25
    @frenchjr25 Před 5 lety

    Most don't know that the "Psycho" house was built in 1947 for the movie "So Goes My Love" and later appeared in "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart. The front wall and a side wall were moved in 1959 from the frontlot to the backlot for “Psycho”. The walls were replaced on the original set with flat ones - and rebuilt a few years later to look like the originals. A group of studio historians which I’m a part of did research into this a few years ago.

  • @1zangelique
    @1zangelique Před 5 lety +3

    How I love this video! Especially the info on the Munsters house, which I've always liked. And you cracked me up so big time at the 4:30 min mark: "Instead of filming somewhere else they f*cked up the whole house!" Stupendous.

  • @ripperace
    @ripperace Před 5 lety +5

    The “Psycho House” was also used in an episode of Knight Rider, called Halloween Knight, in I believe 1985.

  • @fvg
    @fvg Před 4 lety +15

    It all burned down

  • @MussoGames
    @MussoGames Před 6 lety

    This is actually one of my favorite cinemassacre videos in a while. Loved it.

  • @dtrainbcca
    @dtrainbcca Před 5 lety +2

    I live near where they filmed Bates Motel. They took that down too. It's just not feasible to keep them because they are usually used in external shots.The inside was bare.

  • @caroleroseburgh1344
    @caroleroseburgh1344 Před 5 lety +8

    This was an interesting And informative video, I always wondered if it was in fact A real home, and if so was it occupied by real people, thank you so much for sharing the details ☺️🖐️💯 💯.

  • @Checker222
    @Checker222 Před 6 lety +3

    I love these kinds of videos James, well done! :)

  • @frenchjr25
    @frenchjr25 Před 5 lety

    The Psycho house was already standing at Universal - and had been since the 1950s. It was seen in the movies 'So Goes My Love' and 'Harvey'. A group of film and TV fans and historians researched this a few years ago. The facade of the Allison House was rebuilt about 4 years after Psycho. There are episodes of 'Leave It To Beaver' that show the house with a flat facade - around the time 'Psycho' was filmed.

  • @calessel3139
    @calessel3139 Před rokem +2

    Another odd bit of trivia about the Bates House, part of it can be seen in the 747 crash site scene in Stephen Spielberg's movie "War of the Worlds."

  • @jazztom86
    @jazztom86 Před 5 lety +5

    0:45 It's Edward Hopper. You're thinking of Tobe Hooper. No wonder, given the topic. :D

  • @42x3
    @42x3 Před 5 lety +3

    Simple: the “house” you currently see was designed solely based on admission sales with the enticement of seeing the house. It relies on your belief, it actually is what you’re seeing.

  • @ansiaaa
    @ansiaaa Před 6 lety

    James' documentaries are always so well done and insightful!

  • @DarkD112
    @DarkD112 Před 4 lety +5

    You know I used to make maps for Half Life and one of the maps I made or tried to make was a recreation of the psycho house. I went up and down those movies from every angle trying to figure out where all the windows go and how to make the house ACTUALLY WORK. It just kept ending up too damned small to work. And there were contradictions especially in the basement as I remember it. I kept thinking I was just getting turned around somewhere.
    Interesting to know the actual history vindicates me a little. I never finished the map and I think it got lost somewhere on an old hard drive.

  • @crocpuppetflowerpterodacty1647

    Damn I cant even comprehend the idea of ''relocating'' a house!

    • @darreylhenderson702
      @darreylhenderson702 Před 2 lety

      It's not as hard as it seems since it's only a shell, even the outside isn't constructed to the level that a normal house would be.

  • @padairua8129
    @padairua8129 Před 6 lety

    Absolutely loving these videos about Film History, keep them up James!

  • @Batmanguy1001
    @Batmanguy1001 Před 3 lety +2

    The ultimate Ship of Theseus argument

  • @koolmin23
    @koolmin23 Před 4 lety +3

    Start of the video: "What's up with the psycho house?"
    End of the video: "Is your perception of reality accurate?"

  • @rameyzamora1018
    @rameyzamora1018 Před 5 lety +8

    Edward HOPPER, not "Hooper." That was "Jaws."

  • @user-mv9tt4st9k
    @user-mv9tt4st9k Před 5 lety

    As a kid I remember seeing 1313 Mockingbird Lane and the Psycho houses on the Universal backlot tours (they also had the Red Sea... I digressed). It amazes me how something so iconic on celluoid/digital media can "exist" and then not. Kudos for the correct ID of the location of the Halloween house: we grew up in South Pasadena (incorporated 1888) and many commentors cite Pasadena as the location when that house (which was creepy before and after "Halloween" was filmed) was/is still pretty much smack in the middle of South Pas.

  • @FlaDechen
    @FlaDechen Před 6 lety

    I really enjoyed this video. Actually, I enjoy most of your horror movie related videos, but this one is especially fun and curious.

  • @1pcfred
    @1pcfred Před 5 lety +5

    Apparently the Psycho House has been living a crazy life. Who knew?

  • @ras6300
    @ras6300 Před 6 lety +28

    Psycho 2 is so underrated

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 Před 5 lety

      i know, right? It's not a bad movie. It's just not the original Psycho. But it doesn't have to be. It's a story about Norman Bates. And not all the people from "Psycho".

  • @ultraturbojack2926
    @ultraturbojack2926 Před 3 lety

    We need more videos like these James! They are so fascinating.

  • @donbitz2697
    @donbitz2697 Před 5 lety

    To the Cinemassacre host, there's a closed group on Facebook called Studio Backlots & Ranches. A good many of the people in the group have worked in the industry for many years and are very knowledgeable on the studio backlots and sets. The Psycho house's history has been discussed there. Some of the guys might be able to help you clear up the murky areas of the house's history. What you presented was quite thorough and enjoyable! Learned a few things that I didn't know! I've had a fascination with both the Psycho house and the Munster house for as long as I've lived in SoCal and have been visiting Universal Studios.

  • @kentkarlstrom9935
    @kentkarlstrom9935 Před 6 lety +16

    This was cool