A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
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- 4 wins & 6 nominations
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- TriviaIn Psycho (1960), Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted his opening shot to be a long, complete pan and zoom over the city into Marion's hotel room. Sadly, the technology was not yet perfected, and he achieved his effect through a series of pans and dissolves. The remake does a complete travelling shot, as Hitchcock had intended.
- GoofsSome continuity errors were deliberately included, being copied from the original Psycho (1960).
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Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
- Crazy creditsThanks to John Woo for use of his kitchen knife.
- ConnectionsEdited into Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
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What was the point?
This is easily the worst remake in film history. I have never understood the idea of a remake at all. If a film, like Psycho, is so good to start with why on earth do you want to try and improve on it? If you insist on tampering with perfection, why then do you have to try to recreate it in it's whole? There is nothing original here. Gus Van Sant put nothing of himself into this film. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but this is ridiculous. There are a lot of sides to a character as complex as Norman Bates, and I suspect that Vaughn may have wanted to explore them. Instead Van Sant forced him into sticking to a cheap imitation of Anthony Perkins. Perkins turned in a performance that lead to one of the most memorable characters in film history and it would have been impossible for any actor, no matter how good to recreate that. The rest of the characters are stuck just as tight to similarly wooden imitations of the originals. It is almost painful to watch very talented actors (namely William H Macy) have that talent stifled. In the end, Gus Van Sant set out to pay homage to a great film. Instead he cheapened it, and created a movie that is not worthy of late night cable.
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Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,485,655
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,031,850
- Dec 6, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $37,170,655
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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