Marion Crane, employée modèle, cède à la tentation et vole une forte somme d'argent. Elle part pour le Texas rejoindre son amant afin de réaliser leurs rêves. Arrivée à quelques kilomètres de sa destination, harrassée, elle se réfugie dans un motel. Le propriétaire, Norman Bates, jeune homme farouche mais courtois, se montre heureux de l'accueillir. Il se laisse aller à des confidences, évoque sa solitude et son attachement à sa mère infirme et acariâtre. Marion se retire dans sa chambre. Alors qu'elle est sous la douche, une femme écarte le rideau et poignarde Marion...
Duree : 100 minutes
Date de sortie 27/01/1999
TrueBudget : $60,000,000.00
Chiffre d’affaires : $37,141,130.00
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Horror fans really should thank Gus Van Sant for his experimental "copy exactly" approach to re-making the horror classic Psycho. Filmmakers have learned that just modernizing the original with a bigger budget takes no creativity and falls into tedium and redundancy which most horror fan's hate. Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake, where nearly every scene is "copied exactly," is a perfect example of this. It was simply BORING. Even for those that never saw this first, the pacing is just too slow for the high-octane generations of the 90's and beyond. For a re-make to resonate with an audience that knows the original by heart, it has to deliver a new and different version while staying within the bounds of the original framework. We should be thankful because no director will try this again. For the secret formula to successful horror re-makes, watch 2012's The Evil Dead, 2004's Dawn of the Dead or David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986).