Psycho - (Alfred Hitchcock;1960;USA)
A woman steals money from her boss and drives away, spending the night at a motel run by a psychopath.
Not Hitchcock's best film but it is still a masterwork of the thriller genre. It has one of the greatest shock moments in cinema and has a great performance from Anthony Perkins. Hitchcock's direction is taut and Bernard Herrmann's score is classic itself.

Psycho - (Gus Van Sant;1998;USA)
A woman steals money from her boss and drives away, spending the night at a motel run by a psychopath. (nearly shot by shot remake)
There's only one thing to enjoy, and that is the opening shot the way Hitchcock wanted going from the air into the window without cuts. That's it, otherwise it's nearly the same thing as the original, only updated. Even Van Sant supposedly hates it from what I've heard. Vaughn is interesting, but not nearly as good as Perkins. The opening shot and the cast are the only good things about it. See the original, and watch Van Sant's other films.