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Article: Back to the Bates Motel.(1998 remake of 'Psycho')(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 8, 1998
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GUS VAN SANT TAKES A STAB AT REMAKING THE CLASSIC HITCHCOCK THRILLER PSYCHO. BUT WHY?
When director Gus Van Sant announced he was remaking Alfred Hitchcock's suspense masterpiece Psycho, the reaction wasn't what you'd expect. Of course film historians and Hitch maniacs took umbrage at the fact that Van Sant was daring to tread on the hallowed ground of the mother of all modern suspense thrillers.
But the master's daughter, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, pays no more mind to the critical community than her famous filmmaker dad did. "He made his movies for audiences, not for critics," she says from her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. "Which is why many of ...