10 Horror Movies You MUST Watch On The Big Screen

A dastardly experiment by Gus Van Sant, the Vince Vaughn-starring remake of Psycho had a rocky reception on release. Vaughn is an unlikely leading monster as Norman Bates, and yet there really is something unsettling to his performance when his leering closeups are projected 30-feet high. 

But so few have had the chance to see Psycho '98 on the big screen, especially compared against the swathes of audiences who have seen - and continue to see - Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 original regularly. This is precisely where it comes into its own. No matter how good Hitchcock's Psycho is, it is somewhat limited by the technology of the time. It is presented in black and white, in 1.37:1 aspect ratio (or reworked into 1:85 in some cases), and it features a mono soundtrack (that, again, has been digitally altered for multichannel presentation).

Psycho '98 has a native multichannel mix and 1.85 ratio, in glorious technicolour, designed to perform in modern cinema auditoriums. Black and white is by no means worse than colour, but it is the possibilities of Van Sant's colour palette here that really come to life in the cinema. When viewed on the big screen, it is all-encompassing, and while comparisons to the original don't disappear, it does become an experience of its own, layering up sound and visual elements while capturing some of the core vibe of its forebear.