Psycho (1998) *

Gus Van Sant fails miserably in this pointless attempt to create a carbon-copy of the immortal horror classic. He only manages to prove that Alfred Hitchcock's genius wasn't just in shot compositions and editing (reproduced here in minute detail), but also in directing actors (or cattle, as he affectionately called them). And the attempts to "improve" on the original (with inserts during Arbogast's murder, and a shot of Norman Bates masturbating) might not be sacrilegious, but they're certainly misguided.