Psycho

(Universal)

This remake from Gus Van Sant doesn't offer enough wit and wisdom to warrant its $20 million price tag. Anne Heche provides more depth and spirit as Marion Crane than did Janet Leigh. But as Norman Bates, the towering Vince Vaughn lacks any of Anthony Perkins's innocence and vulnerability. Julianne Moore is campily butch and pluckily resourceful as Marion's sister; William H. Macy sports weird headgear as the private investigator. As for the direction, Van Sant makes a number of puzzling changes; any explanation would probably be as perfunctory and anti-climactic as the Oedipal accounting that the psychiatrist -- here dutifully played by Robert Forster -- offers for Norman's behavior. The lights may be on in this Bates Motel, but there's nobody home.