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Jan 24, 2017biffblack rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
The _longest_ 98-minute movie ever made. Bad, bad script. Crummy dialogue. Stupid narrative structure, and fantasy scenes that are utterly implausible even on the level of fantasy. So... Hitchcock imagined that the serial killer Ed Gein was his psychiatrist, and the movie's dum-de-dumb-dumb POV expects us to take this straight. The movie is an INSULT to the real-life persons it portrays. A couple of actors come off well -- Toni Collette, Danny Huston -- but basically this is amateur night stuff. Concept of Anthony Perkins is so offensive that the Perkins estate ought to have sued for defamation. The worthless ScarJo is totally wrong as Janet Leigh, although I can't imagine what the vapid ScarJo would be right for. She sucks even more than usual here. AAAAAnnnnndddd! There's a typically OVERBEARING danny elfman musical score bombastically thudding from scene to scene in souped-up glossy phony orchestrations that ought to have been _retired_ ages ago. Elfman's "music" always sounds like Franz Waxman on Olympic steroids -- never more so than here.