Hitchcock's Psycho is a masterpiece. This isn't. Hitchcock's Psycho is timeless. This defines its era: unnecessary remakes. While I'm on the subject, a remake is made to tell a good story, perhaps even to try to make it better, but stand on its own. The 1998 Psycho failed miserably at this. It is a scene-by-scene remake, the most ridiculous concept I've ever heard. The script is the same, the music is the same, the sets are the same, the camera films at the same angles, and the actors of 1998 try to mimic the actors of 1960. So pretty much this is the exact same as Hitchcock's classic, but bad. The acting is bad and the cinematography is bad, because nobody can repeat Alfred Hitchcock. They should have just colorized 1960's Psycho. I guess the cast and crew of 1998's Psycho achieved one thing: they made something that was so good so bad. At least this film did not tarnish the original.