Steven Soderbergh’s post-“retirement” projects keep getting more interesting. First, he was selling t-shirts based on obscure references to fictional companies in film; now, he’s cutting together Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of same into one mashed-up über-thriller. Says Soderbergh: “This…comes from a place of total affection, openness, and honey bought directly from a beekeeper.”
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The director nullified the most striking difference between the two films, converting Van Sant’s color to black and white, except for the infamous shower scene, which gets appropriately blood-red.
Van Sant’s masturbation sound effects during Norman’s peeping Tom episode — another notable addition — remain intact.
