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PSYCHO

1998 US HMDB
December 4, 1998

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

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Production: Gus Van Sant (Producer)Brian Grazer (Producer)Dany Wolf (Executive Producer)
Screenplay: Joseph Stefano (Screenplay)
Music: Bernard Herrmann (Original Music Composer)
Cinematography: Christopher Doyle (Director of Photography)

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Marco Castellini
The story is the same as that of Hitchcock's masterpiece, with the young employee Marion who runs away with forty thousand dollars only to be murdered in the "Bates' Motel", and her fiancé who runs to look for her helped by a private investigator. It was logical to expect that in a decade where horror cinema no longer manages to find inspiration and new ideas to create truly original "nightmares" one would end up drawing heavily from the "classics" of the genre and among these the "classic" par excellence of the master of suspense. But as was inevitably to be expected, no actor, however good and "committed" like Vince Vaughn, could repeat the perfect performance of Anthony Perkins, and above all no director (and even less Gus Van Sant) could equal the genius demonstrated by Hitchcock in that sublime work that was the original "Psycho". Therefore, the result could only be useless and untimely. In the role that was Janet Leigh's we find Anne Heche, while Viggo Mortensen plays the character of Sam Loomis.
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2 /10

Horror fans really should thank Gus Van Sant for his experimental "copy exactly" approach to re-making the horror classic Psycho. Filmmakers have learned that just modernizing the original with a bigger budget takes no creativity and falls into tedium and redundancy which most horror fan's hate. Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake, where nearly every scene is "copied exactly," is a perfect example of this.

It was simply BORING. Even for those that never saw this first, the pacing is just too slow for the high-octane generations of the 90's and beyond. For a re-make to resonate with an audience that knows the original by heart, it has to deliver a new and different version while staying within the bounds of the original framework. We should be thankful because no director will try this again. For the secret formula to successful horror re-makes, watch 2012's The Evil Dead, 2004's Dawn of the Dead or David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986).

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