Psycho (DVD)

...though…….. The original Psycho is perhaps the most powerful, intriguing, scary, engrossing and just plain excellent thriller of all time, from the get go of the black and white classic the audience is catapulted into a terrifying and intricate world of psychological torture and escalating tension. Even now in 2004 it manages to remain horrifying even with the lack of gore that horror movie audiences expect these days, Psycho the remake is an almost ...
...long glaring stares and incoherent psycho babble you are all the time expecting Vaughn to soar in a role that he seems quite well suited to, but he never reaches truly terrifying or even very believable and his domineering presence undermines the gentle and twisty character development that is drafted so neatly into the screenplay. Not extremely impressive or scary. Anne Heche is -in my humble opinion- one of the most god awful actresses on the ...

JayHall1991 29.09.2005 · Read full review
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...this is why the 1998 Psycho largely fails – it simply isn’t scary or particularly suspenseful. As I watched the film, I could easily identify which plot elements were intended to frighten or make the viewer uneasy, and I can easily accept that in 1960 they would have worked. Today, however, they simply do not. The few murder scenes are slightly comical – there can’t be many people who will have never seen the infamous shower ...
...film in its own right, Psycho will have little impact on modern audiences, and you can’t help asking yourself “What was the point?” I suspect that many viewers would have been more intrigued if the makers had taken the bold decision to change a key plot element completely and work out a completely different conclusion. This film was never going to survive as a stand alone movie – and as a tribute, I suspect it probably fails. ...

LostWitness 19.06.2002 (17.02.2004) · Read full review
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...of the plot of ' Psycho ' as i guess nearly everyone knows it! So this is just a brief review of my thoughts of this film which i just recently saw for the first time. One undoubtedly has to compare Gus Van Sants version with Hitchcocks orignal and as such falls flat on it's face. Maybe this would have been a far better movie if wasn't so hell bent on copying the original shot for shot, which ultimately makes for a decidedly less interesting viewing ...
...and only lessens the visual impact, including the famous shower scene. Anne Heche fairs pretty well in place of Janet Leigh but is really no substitute. As i found almost every other actor to be in comparison. The exception on the other hand would be Viggo Mortenson as Sam Loomis replacing John Gavin, who i believe Hitchcock branded stiff. He was! He is far better characterised here by the lord of the rings man himself ......... much more animated ...

zeroid 01.07.2007 · Read full review
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