In the Psycho film franchise, the motel owned by Norman Bates is called Bates Motel. The property is the main setting of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho, where Marion Crane stops during her flight from Phoenix.
The motel appears as a group of small rooms beside an isolated Victorian house occupied by Norman and his mother. Its location and design establish the film’s atmosphere of loneliness and unease before the story reveals the truth about Norman’s identity and behavior.
The Bates Motel name became one of the most recognizable locations in horror. Later films in the Psycho franchise return to the motel, and the television series Bates Motel uses the name while presenting a prequel-style reimagining of Norman and Norma Bates.
The motel is sometimes confused with the Bates family house because both buildings stand together in the story. The house is where Norman’s mother is said to live, while the motel is the business where travelers rent rooms. The famous shower sequence takes place in Room 1.