I was always a bit afraid about watching the PSYCHO remake because it has an appalling score of 4,6 and mostly bad reviews, and as nearly everyone else, I loved the 1960 original by Hitchcock. However being some sort of masochist I left my fears and last May I finally saw it.
There is no need to talk about the plot as it's a frame to frame remake of the original. Suffice to say that the new cast (the late Anne Heche as Marion Crane, Julianne Moore as her sister, Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, Viggo Mortensen as Sam Loomis, William Macy as Milton Arbogast) is fine and some of the moments that were scary in the original were a bit gorier since it's from the 1990s. Gus Van Sant's direction was focused and the soundtrack too on par with that of the original.
Needless to say, it's a remake that is best to be seen without reading the reviews first. I think that if Hitchcock wouldn't have made PSYCHO in 1960, this would have been liked better as a standalone movie.
There is no need to talk about the plot as it's a frame to frame remake of the original. Suffice to say that the new cast (the late Anne Heche as Marion Crane, Julianne Moore as her sister, Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, Viggo Mortensen as Sam Loomis, William Macy as Milton Arbogast) is fine and some of the moments that were scary in the original were a bit gorier since it's from the 1990s. Gus Van Sant's direction was focused and the soundtrack too on par with that of the original.
Needless to say, it's a remake that is best to be seen without reading the reviews first. I think that if Hitchcock wouldn't have made PSYCHO in 1960, this would have been liked better as a standalone movie.