Psycho

They say no one does suspense quite like Hitchcock. Gus Van Sant's Psycho is the prime example to prove this point. Despite being practically a shot-for-shot remake, the film fails to match up to the original at every point along the way.

Where it particularly falls short is with the films' performances which mostly feel insincere, probably because, in an attempt to emulate the original as much as possible, the actors were attempting to play Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, etc, rather than simply playing the characters. And with the horrible miscasting of Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, many of the classic lines from the original ended up butchered along with Bates' victims.