It remains the most structurally elegant and sneakily playful of thrillers!
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Psycho (1998)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:23
Rotten:46
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Van Sant's pointless remake neither improves or illuminates Hitchcock's original.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: A remake of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller about a young woman, who, while on the run after stealing $40,000 from her boss, is brutally murdered in the shower of a motel she is staying... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Reviews for Psycho
Top CriticIt retains little of the frights and the material feels surprisingly dated.
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It is only because of a few elements of original creativity that Van Sant and the rest should be saved from eternal film damnation.
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Fans of the original will protest the remake, while today's teen audience will find the proceedings decidedly less than frightening than what's been available in the past decade or so.
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The one actor who stood out from the pack was definitely the rising star of the year, Vince Vaughn, who took Anthony Perkins' superb original performance, and added his own macabre touch of surrealism.
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Es mejor que las nuevas generaciones vayan a la tienda de videos y renten la versión original
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On the whole, the remake is just about, but not quite as good as the original Psycho.
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What scared audiences then will almost certainly strike kids raised on the unholy trinity of Michael, Jason and Freddy as quaint and slow.
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Academically interesting, entertaining in a perverse sort of way, but in the end feels rather pointless.
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As Norman Bates, Vince Vaughn makes us better appreciate how much Anthony Perkins brought to the original project.
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Though some hard-core fans of the original may scoff at anything that tries to compete, Van Sant’s version of Psycho is actually pretty good.
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Van Sant clearly knows that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and his own smooth touch is neatly sympathetic with his predecessor's.
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Maybe in 50 years, Gus Van Sant's Psycho will be the classic that needs protection from upstart filmmakers.
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Even with its surreal shot-for-shot sense of recreation, what we wind up with here is hubris meshed with an affront to every genre fan's sense of propriety.
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Having all of this distinctly '60s material played out by '90s performers in living color makes for a film that feels jarringly anachronistic...
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The film is polished when it should be edgy and impersonal when it should be seductive.
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Top CriticThis gutsy cinematic experiment is more than just a curiosity. It's an intelligent homage (at times even a spoof) and still a bit of a hand-wringer, even though pop culture has spoiled all the surprises.
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