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Psycho (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 55 Fresh: 20  Rotten:35 Average Rating: 5.2/10
 
Consensus: Van Sant's pointless remake neither improves or illuminates Hitchcock's original.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs

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 in one night. As police investigate her disappearance, we learn more about the motel's psychotic... 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 in one night. As police investigate her disappearance, we learn more about the motel's psychotic owner, Norman Bates. Director Gus Van Zant's film is a shot-for-shot remake of the original. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen

Director: Gus Van Sant
Story: Robert Bloch
Producer: Brian Grazer
Composer: Bernard Herrmann

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May 8, 2002

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Gavin Smith
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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Psycho doesn't do much for Van Sant, and he doesn't do much for Psycho.

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09/22/07
Rob Gonsalves
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Vaughn's Norman Bates is much inferior because he lacks the natural neurosis of Anthony Perkins.

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08/13/07
Chuck O'Leary
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Deserves closer consideration than it received.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Eugene Novikov
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franky it sucks

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Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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A Psycho that functions perfectly on its own terms while polishing this jewel of a thriller into its own bright new gleam.

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Nick Davis
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Mike Kerrigan
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