The film was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Actress for Anne Heche (but lost to Mel B (Scary Spice), Mel C (Sporty Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice), and Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) in Spice World), but was awarded two awards for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel (tied with Godzilla and The Avengers), and another award for Worst Director. Overall, the film made $37 million worldwide against its $60 million budget, making it a box office bomb. In foreign territories, the film made $15,685,000. It later made a total domestic gross of $21,456,130. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) > IMDb average rating: 8.4/10 (917,818 votes) > Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 96 (827,087 votes) > Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen. The film opened up at #2 on its opening weekend with a gross of $10 million at the box office. The film holds a 38% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a critic consensus that states, "Van Sant's pointless remake neither improves nor illuminates Hitchcock's original." Film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film one and a half out of four stars and stated in his review of the film that it "demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless genius apparently resides between or beneath the shots, or in chemistry that cannot be timed or counted. Universal included the opening shot - an uninterrupted pan across the city skyline going into Marion and Sam's room - that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to include in the original, but was unable to film due to budgetary and technological limitations.Julianne Moore is pretty good as Lila Crane, Marion's sister.Also one of the few shot-for-shot remakes of a horror film, as most horror film reboots are cheap re-imaginings. Seeing a color version of Psycho was pretty interesting.Bates' corpse is discovered, a spider comes out of her mouth. While Anthony Perkins at least made Norman Bates look innocent, Vince Vaughn makes it obvious that he's messed up in the head, right from the first time we see him on screen.Also, these brief image cutaways during the two murder scenes, make no sense, whatsoever. The same could be said about the second murder scene, which cuts to someone who looks like Lady Gaga and a baby cow/goat in the middle of a foggy road. The infamous shower murder scene is badly remade delayed scream from Marion, delayed violin cue, extra gore, Marion, saying "What?!" after getting stabbed a few times, cutting to cloudy skies in between stabs.In fact, it feels like a parody film at times (à la Scary Movie). It's not even remotely as scary as the original 1960 classic.Cringeworthy tongue-in-cheek dialogue and every line in the film are the same lines from the original, with some slight differences.The only way it would look even more obvious is that if someone else like Paul Rudd was playing Norman Bates, instead of Vaughn. Vince Vaughn was a terrible choice to play Norman Bates.It's a shot for shot remake, only colorized and set in the late '90s, instead of the late '50s/early '60s, unlike the original, making some scenes look very outdated.Also, the extra scene was unnecessary and just plain gross. The joke "Norman Master Bates" wouldn't have made it any funnier, even if the said line was in the film. This includes Norman Bates masturbating to Marion through a large peephole in his motel before she gets in the shower and meets her demise. It's really just the original film, only in color, with unwanted extended scenes, different performers that didn't really need to be in the film, and bad acting.
#Psycho 1998 rotten tomatoes movie#
The movie was the first motion picture to feature a toilet flushing.Marion Crane (Anne Heche, originally played by Janet Leigh) stays in a rundown motel run by psychopath Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn, originally played by Anthony Perkins). The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director.
#Psycho 1998 rotten tomatoes serial#
This was inspired by the real life crimes of Wisconsin serial killer, Ed Gein. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Robert Bloch. It is now known as the first " Slasher movie" and one of Hitchcock's greatest movies. The movie is famous for the unexpected death of Leigh's character early in the movie in the 'Shower Scene' which has in turn become very famous in popular culture.
The owner has dissociative identity disorder and is obsessed with his dead mother. When she stops at a motel for the night she is murdered by the hotel's owner, played by Perkins. It tells the story of a young woman, played by Janet Leigh, who steals money from her workplace and runs away.