工作和感情都陷入低潮的瑪麗安（珍妮李飾）一時起了貪念，將老闆交代她存入銀行的鉅款全數佔為己有，並且打算遠走高飛…。 她在大雨中來到了「貝茲汽車旅館」，接待她的是生性害羞的老闆諾曼貝茲（安東尼柏金斯飾），貝茲對瑪麗安一見鍾情，因此引起控制狂媽媽的嫉妒與不滿…。 旅館內鳥類的標本、母子倆激烈的爭吵，還有種種令人心生畏懼的徵兆，在深夜的時候，讓人恐懼的真相將一步步向瑪麗安逼近…。到了隔天，瑪麗安竟然消失了，到底這間人煙稀少的旅社、害羞內向的老闆以及脾氣暴躁的母親，隱藏著什麼驚人的秘密？
全片劇情圍繞70年代美國，一位高智商連續殺手傑克的視角，跨長時間12年的作案歷程，在他視為藝術的殺人過程，和警方逐步調查逼近的同時，去探討謀殺背後的詭譎人性。傑克認為他的每一位受害者都是一件的藝術品，而現在，他將冒著更大的風險完成他創作生涯的終極之作。
Grotesquely surreal offering charting three male generations of the same bizarre family, including a pervert who constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater, and a passionate embalmer.
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…
Peppino is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio, a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino's work. Peppino, in turn, becomes entranced by Valerio and offers him a large salary to come work as his assistant. But when Valerio meets Deborah, their fledgling romance is threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.
A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is an odd puppet theater the couple operate in their basement that re-creates the Nazi era using stuffed creatures.
Amateur taxidermist, Walter Potter, became an unlikely success by putting his creatures in human positions and scenarios, referred to as anthropomorphic taxidermy. Potter's Museum, filled with his creations and collection of oddities and curiosities dazzled millions for over a hundred years until the collection's unfortunate separation in 2003. While largely about the man and his creations, the film also takes a look at the obsessive nature of collecting, as well as the controversial history of stuffing dead animals.
What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would have been much easier to replace if they had picked the all-back one. Now, they will have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget's dead. Unless..
An inside look into the world of taxidermy and the passionate artists from all over the world who work on the animals.
A lonely isolated taxidermist suffers from false sense of reality, mental illness and control issues. He has an obsession with a waitress that turns into murder, he uses taxidermy to keep her around forever.
Paris interdit follows the pattern of the Italian mondo style documentaries which began in 1962 with MONDO CANE. The film jumps from one strange scenario to the next, including a woman who goes publicly nude on a bet, a family man wearing an anti-radiation suit in fear of the end of the world, a orgy-indulging cult with a kissing fetish, a role-reversal wedding of performing transvestites, a middle-aged man who gives striptease lessons to housewives, a self-absorbed loner who believes he’s a vampire, a ritualistic funeral procession involving the burning of a mannequin, a mass swimming pool baptism, etc. Probably the most fascinatingly grotesque bit, which at the same time is strangely touching, is when a woman has her beloved deceased medium sized dog stuffed by a pipe-smoking taxidermist (shown in graphic detail) and installed with an electronic barking device!
Stuffed is a short musical about a taxidermist who dreams of stuffing a human and the man she meets online, so afraid of aging he volunteers to be her specimen. An unexpected romantic spark between them complicates their plans.
Not having bitten anyone at the age of 25 makes the young vampire Victor feel quite inadequate. New hope blooms, however, when he meets Sophia, a young doctor.
After the sudden death of her parents, a young girl finds a portal to an alternate world in which they are still alive and must choose whether to stay with them or go back to her brother in reality.
An aging woman attempts to regain her youth through her taxidermy and spell books.
When 12-year-old Rosie and Miles encounter a strange man on the 4th of July, their journey to watch the fireworks on the outskirts of town becomes an unexpected fight for survival.
A man decides to house sit for his old war buddy.