![]() A secretary named Marion Crane (originally Janet Leigh) has a lover who won't marry If the filmmaker is right in supposing that "Psycho" is most widely remembered as that scary shower movie, here's a brief reminder. Little from learning that Norman keeps porn magazines and toy soldiers in his once off-limits childhood bedroom. Those of us not quite ready to write off the first film will gain Real "Psycho" (1960) that it follows most faithfully but seldom diverges seriously or successfully from one of the cinema's most brilliant blueprints. His film is an artful, good-looking remake (a modest term, but it beats plagiarism) that shrewdly revitalizes the aspects of the ![]() If he isn't Hitchcock, neither is he crazy. It turns out the apparent rocks in Van Sant's head are mere pebbles. Anyway, the film's main suspense revolved around a single question: now that room rent at the Bates Motel is up to $36.50,įorget the towel: Anne Heche in a new "Psycho." Today's audiences can traipse freely, and at the theater I attended somebodyĮven made a loud cellular phone call just as the rest of us were bracing ourselves for the shower scene. There was a time when no one could enter a theater playing "Psycho" after the film had started. Some of his other, even better marketing ideas. Us Van Sant's new color replica of "Psycho" opened without advance screenings Friday, adopting Alfred Hitchcock's policy of dodging reviews but neglecting ![]() Selected Scenes and Trailer From the Film.The New York Times on the Web: Current Film. ![]() 'Psycho': The Mama's Boy, His Motel Guest and That ShowerįILM REVIEW 'Psycho': The Mama's Boy, His Motel Guest and That Shower ![]()
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