Psycho (1998)
Hoping for a fresh start with her broke boyfriend, Marion steals a huge sum from her boss and skips town, eventually stopping at a remote motel. Unluckily, the hotel is run by an insane killer named Norman Bates.
11 June 1937, South Bend, Indiana, USA
25 May 1969, Aurora, Ohio, USA
24 July 1952, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
13 July 1941, Rochester, New York, USA
16 October 1962, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
17 November 1928, Oklahoma, USA
4 October 1932, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
28 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
15 September 1945, Quincy, Illinois, USA
29 July 1949, West Point, New York, USA
28 March 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
4 March 1934, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
31 December 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
13 March 1950, Miami, Florida, USA
26 October 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
1969, Oregon, USA
15 August 1923, New York City, New York, USA
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
27 April 1962, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
December 01, 2012
What Van Sant's film does, tremendously well, is make the material foreign again.
February 09, 2006
Hitchcock probably wouldn't tell this story if he was making films today, and he certainly wouldn't tell it this way, with internal 'voices', back projection, minimal nudity and violence.
January 01, 2000
It remains the most structurally elegant and sneakily playful of thrillers!
October 22, 2012
a true labour of love, an homage in such deliriously infatuated thrall to its inspiration that it seems more arthouse folly than studio cashcow - or, to cite the psychiatrist near the end of Psycho, "these were crimes of passion, not profit."
October 23, 2013
The cast is fantastic, sure, but they're wasted in a sea of redundancy.
March 26, 2009
Contains nothing to outrage or offend partisans of the original, yet neither does it stand to add much to their appreciation.
January 01, 2000
The film is polished when it should be edgy and impersonal when it should be seductive.
April 25, 2013
failed project
August 21, 2009
Already my mother and I mourn the day when some AVID editor will dare to digitally tweak Vertigo, spinning it into a virtual romantic comedy starring computer-directed replicas of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
January 01, 2000
Van Sant has cranked up the realism about 20 points, but somehow what he achieves for the effort is a larger sense of banality!
August 07, 2012
A futile, soulless shot-by-shot remake of Hitchcock's masterpiece.
January 01, 2000
A lot less scary!
