What is the horror movie that Roddy Mcdowell was in dressed as his mother and did someone in?

Question

The one just like psycho, the name of the movie?

Answer 1

I'm not a 100% sure but i think it might have been the Frighteners. Also starred Michael J. Fox.

Answer 2

It may be "it!" aa 1966 horror movie in which critics compared McDowell's character to Anthony Perkin's in Psycho.
McDowell plays a character whose mother is dead but....


After one of their store houses burnt down, museum director Groof and his assistant Pimm find everything destroyed - only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Groof is lying dead on the ground - killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage

Answer 3

the golem: it!

plot summary: The film begins by showing five people standing on the rubble of a London museum warehouse that has just burned down. Three are police from Scotland Yard, and the remaining two are the curator Grove and his assistant Arthur Pimm. They are left by the police to inspect the cairn for any art objects that are salvageable. Standing undamaged in the smoldering ruins is a large rough hewn stone statue that Grove observes is made in the style of "Mid-European Primitive." He examines it, but carelessly places his umbrella onto the statue's arms that are partially outstretched, parallel to each other (see image above). Pimm timidly keeps his distance, but provides Grove his magnifying glass. As Pimm goes back to the car for a flashlight to aid in Grove's investigation he is stopped by Groves's death cry. Pimm returns to find him dead at the foot of the statue with the statue's right arm now somewhat lower than the other. Pimm suspiciously removes Grove's keys from his pocket and calls the police. The beginning credits are then shown.

Pimm is then seen entering his apartment in conversation with his mother, who is seen from the back in her rocking chair. He tells her that he believes he is sure to be chosen the new curator by the museum's board of trustees. He brings out a necklace with a jewel pendant, which he has borrowed from the museum for his mother to wear to indulge her. As he puts the necklace on his mother we see that she is a decaying corpse, revealing Pimm to be a Norman Bates character reminiscent of Psycho. The imagined rivalry in Pimm's mind between his dead mother and his personal attraction for Ellen Grove, the dead curator's daughter, is a minor subplot, which saves her life in the end. This aspect of Pimm's character is also similar to Norman Bates of Psycho.

Answer 4

It! (1966). He played a Norman Bates character reminiscent of Psycho.

Answer 5

IT. did not like to see Roddy playing that kind of a roll . always loved his work until I saw this movie and then I didnt want to see him act again. dont know why .