A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.
Unusual drama insinuating or rather imagining the possibility of reincarnation skillfully holds its protagonists - and the audience - in a suspended, disquieting state of doubt and belief.
Maltin***: "Eerie, riveting drama is remarkably effective in building and sustaining a mood of unease - and uncertainty."
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
Curious experiment - copying a cinema classic shot-by-shot (with an occasional minimal aberration) and offering a star cast and some magnificent color cinematography - never achieves, in any aspect, the mastery of the original - which in itself is an interesting result.
Halliwell (no star): "A genuine curiosity, though, unfortunately, not a very interesting one: a remake of Hitchcock's thriller that hardly deviates from the original, except that it is in colour, the acting is inferior, and the content is a little tired."
Maltin BOMB: "Slow, stilted, completely pointless scene-for-scene remake...(with a few awkward new touches to taint its claim as an exact replica). The result is an insult, rather than a tribute, to a landmark film."
