A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
Direction
Van Sant's perverse experiment in cinematic karaoke.
Cinematography
Christopher Doyle's lurid color palette vandalizes Hitchcock's monochrome.
Acting
Vince Vaughn's Norman: all nervous giggles, zero birdlike fragility.
Director
Gus Van Sant
Vince Vaughn
Norman Bates
Anne Heche
Marion Crane
Julianne Moore
Lila Crane
Viggo Mortensen
Samuel 'Sam' Loomis
William H. Macy
Milton Arbogast
Robert Forster
Dr. Simon
Philip Baker Hall
Sheriff Chambers
Anne Haney
Mrs. Chambers
Chad Everett
Tom Cassidy
Rance Howard
Mr. Lowery
Rita Wilson
Caroline
James Remar
Patrolman
James Le Gros
California Charlie
Flea
Bob Summerfield
Gus Van Sant
Man Talking to Man in Cowboy Hat (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Universal greenlit this as a contractual loophole to retain Psycho remake rights; Van Sant famously called it 'an exercise that shouldn't exist.'
The original's $800,000 budget equals roughly $40 million adjusted—Van Sant's version cost $60 million and grossed $37 million, making it one of history's most expensive film school assignments.
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