Last week, Steven Soderbergh—retired from filmmaking, but still with many tricks up his sleeve—posted, on his Web site, a feature-length mashup version of “Psycho” that splices together the Hitchcock classic and Gus Van Sant’s shot-by-shot remake. Soderbergh mostly alternates scene by scene between the two versions: Janet Leigh absconds with her stolen bundle of cash, and then Anne Heche packs her suitcase and skips town. Leigh and Anthony Perkins chat among the stuffed birds in the Bates Motel parlor, and then Vince Vaughn peeps on Heche undressing next door. (The explicit lewdness of Vaughn’s voyeurism is one of Van Sant’s few departures from the original.) At the film’s violent junctures, including the lurid climax of the famous shower scene, embedded below, Soderbergh overlays the two versions, creating a disorienting blur of Hitchcock’s horror and its latter-day identical twin.
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