A year prior to Psycho, though, Van Sant was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for his film Good Will Hunting. Gus Van Sant directed the remake in 1998 but, while not new to the film industry, he didn’t quite have the reputation that Hitchcock had. Moving away from movies featuring classic creatures like the Wolfman, Frankenstein, or Dracula, Hitchcock thought to make a film where the antagonist–in this case, Norman Bates–was more terrifyingly real and believable in a genre that could be easily labeled today as a psychological thriller. He built up quite a resume of well-known films under his direction by this time, but Psycho stands out as a breakthrough film by showing the mass audience a different kind of horror film. The original movie was directed in 1960 by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, famously recognized for his superb story-telling, particularly in the murder mystery genre…as well as for his famously rotund profile. SYNOPSIS: A Phoenix secretary steals a large sum of money from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. This couldn’t be more true than for the first entry in our list, Psycho. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” You could tag this famous phrase on just about everything to describe why you didn’t change a thing from the original concept.
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