Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) Alfred Hitchcock is known for his horror, thriller, and suspense. But for this adaptation of "Psycho"? I am going to be mum on this. Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates in the 1960 version. A very quiet, but equally disturbing character. Vince Vaughn plays the same person, not quite the same way. Vivian Leigh played Marion in the 1960's version. Anne Heche, a little sexier, but not quite like her. The afternoon delight scenes are about spot on. Like them in both versions. But the updated version was silly. The voyeur scenes was too much. Norman Bates in the 1998 version was worse than the 1960 version. Perkins was decent, Vaughn pleasured himself. TOO MUCH! The shower scene is classic. Only the stab wounds in the back was the major difference. Stopping Norman Bates wasn't a team effort, but it could have been. The updated version of "Psycho" had a good cast of stars, but the end result was negative. It did honor Alfred Hitchcock though. I rather choose the 1960 version over the 1998 version. The remake was sillier than the original. 2 out of 5 stars

Sober-Friend I thought this was a good idea. Use the original screenplay from "Psycho" and we would have a great film. Well we didn't get a great film. What we got is like armature dinner theater. The performances here don't come off well. It all seems like they are rushing things. It feels forced. If you love the original then never watch this.You know one day there will be another remake. I just hope the next time around they change the sexual orientation and genders. Make Marion someone named Marty. Make Norman a repressed homosexual. Then you would make something different and most likely better!

Dave I agree that Vince Vaughan's acting is grossly inferior to that of Anthony Perkins. There are some ways in which this version is superior to the original. It's in colour, which is a huge improvement. Julianne Moore's portrayal of Lila Crane is much better than that of Vera Miles.

Desertman84 This 1998 version of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock "Psycho" was definitely a remake of the original.Or to put it wisely,it was a shot-for-shot remake of the horror classic.It stars Anne Heche as seductive Marion Crane and Vince Vaughn as the memorable psychotic Norman Bates together with Julianne Moore,Viggo Mortensen and William H. Macy. Director Gus Van Sant tries to provide the contemporary audience of a modern shot-for-shot remake based on the 1959 Robert Bloch novel and it carries practically over the original screenplay of Joseph Stefano as well as the original music of Bernard Herrmann. Too bad that this experiment would fail miserably as it carried over the troubles the 60's movie would provide to present-day viewers like the pacing that proved too slow and difficult and many other troubles.Added to that,comparison versus the original would always be considered such as the performances of the cast which does not match that of the original cast especially Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins as well as the lack of creativity or innovation that it has as the use of audience manipulation by Hitchcock has been commonly used for since the 1960 film has been released. In summary,there was basically limited improvement in this 1998 version except probably that it was shot in color and the use of stereo sound.Sad to say,the special effects used could probably be defined just as a minor improvement compared to the 1960 classic but proved obsolete for modern audiences.