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Name: Psycho (1998)
Released: 1998-12-4
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Viggo Mortensen

Psycho (1998)

R
1h 43m
1998

41%

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Criminal on the run, Marion Crane (Anne Heche) takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn) - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister (Julianne Moore) and a private investigator (William H. Macy). They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious "mother" at the Bates Motel. Relive the terror in acclaimed director Gus Van Sant's all new version of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of suspense… Psycho.

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Producer:

Brian Grazer, Gus Van Sant

Writer:

Joseph Stefano

Cast:

Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Viggo Mortensen, Chad Everett, Philip Baker Hall, James LeGros, James Remar, Rita Wilson, Robert Forster

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

41%

Critics Consensus: Van Sant's pointless remake neither improves nor illuminates Hitchcock's original.

Reviews

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

Noah Berlatsky

The crimes of Hitchcock's Psycho are theft and imitation. Van Sant turns those into an aesthetic and, I think, into a triumph of queer cinema.

If Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s widely celebrated thriller Psycho (1960) is not one of the most unfairly maligned features of its decade, then it must surely be one of the least-well understood.

Van Sant knows what he’s doing with the source material.

Gus Van Sant's Psycho is as it is because he knows that we have already seen Hitchcock's version, and that, despite replicating the original scene to scene, he also takes unexpected directions. [Full Review in Spanish]

Gus Van Sant's oddball, shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic...

August 6, 2018

FULL REVIEW