Psycho 1960 vs Psycho 1998
... Never has this been as painfully profound as with Gus Van Sant’s 1998 shot-by-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, starring Vince Vaughan and Anne Heche. ... The plot to Psycho is the same in both films. ... Released in 1960, Psycho was a monster success and was a career high for everyone involved; never before had such brutal murders been portrayed on camera. ... Though Psycho has timeless qualities, the film itself is dated and every bit of this shows in the remake. In 1960, the violence in Psycho was considered revolutionary and grotesque. ... In 1960, Hitchcock made the famous move of allowing no one to enter the theater after the film had started, so no one would miss the shock of the heroine’s sudden murder. ... Even people who have never seen Psycho know about the shower scene and Norman Bates, so any idea of psychological horror is destroyed.