Psycho

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Ron W Feb 23, 2019 Lovers of Hitchcock might get a kick out of seeing this almost identical shot-by-shot remake of the original horror classic. Despite the facsimile, the film feels like a forgery. See more

Theodore W Jan 28, 2019 Why was Psycho remade? Was there any need for it? Gus Van Sant is a competent filmmaker and it wasn't as though he wanted to learn the technicalities! This is a scene by scence-shot by shot remake of the much more revered Hitchcock film. Remakes come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. A rare few manage to eclipse their inspirations, but most are, to one degree or another, inferior. Successful remakes take older material and do something new, interesting, and intelligent with it. Examples include The Magnificent Seven, a Western version of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai; and High Society, which turned The Philadelphia Story into a musical. The Psycho ramake is like none of these. In fact, it is like no remake ever committed to film. Not only does Gus Van Sant's version use Joseph Stefano's screenplay, Bernard Herrmann's score, and Saul Bass' title design, but Van Sant has elected to copy Hitchcock's style scene-for-scene. I feel sad for the actors who were mauled by the critics. See more

Harry W Oct 25, 2018 Curious experiment - copying a cinema classic shot-by-shot (with an occasional minimal aberration) and offering a star cast and some magnificent color cinematography - never achieves, in any aspect, the mastery of the original - which in itself is an interesting result. See more

Finn W Oct 5, 2018 Van Sant gets points for effort on an intriguing experimental conceptual, refreshing remake of Hitchcock's superior that revives a shock and a transitioning style, and keeps you captivated with both the resurrected original music and the performances of the nice cast to see how they duplicate the characters to see how modern the story has become, which the pivotal storytelling aspect seems to affect the film when efforts were less than what the script asks for. It may be more entertaining to those who have not seen the 1960 original prior to the update, while it should be given a chance to see how the experiment went despite the inferiority, as a worthy trial to view it back-to-back to the original. (B) (Full review TBD) See more

Kylo R Jul 27, 2018 It tries to be the 1960 Hitchcock classic by attempting to replicate every scene from it, although with worse acting and no tension at all. See more

Han S Jul 21, 2018 This is one of the strangest and most unnecessary experiments I've ever come across, and it serves as unintentional proof of why some films simply MUST be shot in black-and-white to work. See more

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