A Conversation with Norman

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A Conversation with Norman
Directed by Jonathan M. Parisen
Produced byC.M. Murphy
Jonathan M. Parisen
Written byJonathan M. Parisen
StarringChristopher Englese
Grace Orosz
Tom Loggins
Michael Sean Regan
Edited byJonathan M. Parisen
Release date
  • June 16, 2005 (2005-06-16)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Conversation with Norman, produced and directed by Jonathan M. Parisen, is a horror film homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho .

Jonathan M. Parisen American filmmaker

Jonathan M. Parisen is an American filmmaker and painter who wrote, produced and directed Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center, the first dramatization of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City.

Horror film Film genre

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit fear for entertainment purposes. Initially inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley, horror has existed as a film genre for more than a century. The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction, and thriller genres.

Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic. The term is often used in the arts for where one author or artist shows respect to another by allusion or imitation; this is often pronounced like the French hommage.

It took six years on and off for the filmmaker to get the film made due to problems with sets and casting. It premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York City on June 13, 2005, just three days before the forty-fifth anniversary of the New York premiere of Psycho. Parisen announced on premiere night that the film would play that night and never be shown again. Parisen promised that the film would never make it to VHS or DVD and would never be shown on television. He said he was doing this to make the premiere night more of an event for the viewing audience. To date Parisen has kept that promise.

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Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema. The film archive and theater is located at 32 Second Avenue on the southeast corner of East 2nd Street, in a New York City historic district in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.

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