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Release year: 1998

Storyline

In Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic, young female bank employee Marion Crane steals money from her boss in Phoenix, flees town, and arrives at Fairvale, California's rundown Bates Motel, which has secrets of its own.

Top credits

Directors

Gus Van Sant

Writers

Cast

Vince Vaughn — Norman Bates
Anne Heche — Marion Crane
Julianne Moore — Lila Crane
Viggo Mortensen — Sam Loomis

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Did you know

• In 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.

• During filming, Gus Van Sant brought along a DVD player and played the original Psycho (1960), and they used this for reference. When he spotted a mistake (a door opening without a key), Van Sant decided to put the same mistake into his film.

• The last frame in the film is a skull that is superimposed over Vince Vaughn's face. This is the same skull used in the last frame of Psycho (1960), superimposed over Anthony Perkins' face.