Diagonaldi Very well executed

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Michael O'Keefe First of all, this has nothing to do with Norman Bates or the hotel in Hitchcock's classic. The title is to get your attention and it is advised to store up some of that attention. Agnes Rickover(Jean Louis O'Sullivan)is probably your average teen, although her dad is the local sheriff(Robert Haag). Agnes is in attendance like many others at opening night of the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride. Agnes will witness her best friend's death caused by a fiery spectacle gone awry. A year has gone by and Agnes as spent the time obsessing what happened. A murder investigation found no foul play and even her father thought the case was open and shut. The troubled teen decides to take a job at the Haunt to search for the truth before more victims die "by accident".Also in the cast: D'Arcy Webb, Zachary Fletcher, Dante Zucca, Dawn Sobolewski, Bam Margera and Randy Bates.

One_slice_of_pizza What's worse than a bad movie? Writing fake rave reviews. I am not surprised to see this habit from the crew, considering the deceitful marketing of this cheap horror flick.The movie actually, HAS NOTHING TO DO with the Bates family from the movie Psycho or the recently made TV show. When you see the film cover and read the synopsis, you think there's a ghost haunting the Bates motel or something. WRONG!They are just using the Bates' name to attract a wider audience. I repeat, the movie HAS NOTHING to do with Norman Bates or a haunting, ever. Now how deceitful is that?? This is just a movie about a stupid hayride show and the family's name is Bates. That's it. There's not even a motel. Besides the lies and fake reviews, there's really nothing much to talk about. Very low budget and poorly executed movie with really bad acting, non existent story line and awful directing. The movie gets worse and worse by the minute and the killings are either off the screen or very amateurish because of non existent budget.Byron Turk should stick with Storm Chasers, obviously directing a horror movie is way over his current skills. Save your money and watch a rerun if you have nothing better to do.1/10

Joe This movie has nothing to do with the actual Bates Motel used in the original "Psycho". It's about the haunted attraction which is located in Pennsylvania. Furthermore, we have a movie mocking the original in a haunted attraction form.Acting was bad. Story wasn't anything special, but only kind of fun. Not scary at all. While it was entertaining enough to make it to the end, that's not saying much. I'd say only watch if your a die hard for anything Bates and interested in the attraction located in Pennsylvania. Almost seems like a movie made to gain recognition for the haunted attraction and also cashing in on the success of the recent "Bates Motel" show.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Right, already at the opening of the movie, when Bam Margera appeared, I was ready to turn off the movie. I just knew right there and then that this was going to be bad. And then you see Ryan Dunn (who can't act even if his life depended on it) is listed to be in the movie, and it seems it would go from bad to worse.Right, well "The Bates Haunting" is a slasher movie, but ultimately not in the higher end of the scale. The movie wasn't particularly interesting, and the story was just so-so. And the fact that the acting throughout most of the movie was amateurish and staggering, really didn't help elevate the movie out of the gutter of mediocrity.The story is about Agnes Rickover (played by Jean Louise O'Sullivan) who sees her friend burnt to death at a local haunting attraction. And she ends up working at the very same attraction later on as all of her job possibilities are bled dry (no pun intended here). But things are escalating at the attraction and the make-believe deaths of various people to scare people turns out to be real killings. Someone or something is after Agnes, and wants her blood.Alright, well fairly average slasher storyline here, but it was just badly acted, badly scripted and executed on the screen. The movie was anything but scary and there weren't any shocks throughout the movie.The movie's poster/DVD cover makes the movie seem far better than it actually is, and also insinuates a much higher level of production value. Guess you can't judge a movie by its cover, eh?If you are looking for some slasher entertainment, I would recommend that you get your kicks elsewhere. This movie was not really worth spending about an hour and a half on.