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Psycho (1998)
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We all go a little mad sometimes, but Gus Van Sant must have been clinically insane when he agreed to direct this near word-for-word, scene-for-scene impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock's most celebrated movie. It simply doesn't work, because every major character is horribly miscast — Anne Heche plays Marion Crane as a kooky cutie and Vince Vaughn's Norman is an effeminate hunk. Van Sant's handling of Hitch's two stunning murder sequences is botched, too, by inserting redundant surreal flash-frames and shooting Heche in a comical final death pose. Despite the hilarious modern references (Julianne Moore's dangling earphones are a hoot), the pointlessness of this stagey, badly acted replica of one of cinema's true masterpieces cannot be ignored. It's a film whose sole merit is being the strangest remake in cinema history. JC
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Running time
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99min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Horror
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Joseph Stefano, from the 1960 film
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Theatrical distributor
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Universal
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