Psycho (1960) (60th Anniversary Edition) (Uncut)

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Yep, same thing happened with the early James Bond movies when they were redone. These remixes they do today often sound NOTHING like the originals. They try to make them "sexy" and "hip" for young audiences, and add effects that were never there and worst of all they often bury the music, because the modern taste is for score to be almost unnoticeable.

I always make a point of listening to original mixes.

There was a funny moment with the restored Roman Holiday that comes out today. The announcement video has the Paramount lady saying sadly that they couldn't find the original separate audio elements, so they couldn't remix it. I was practically jumping out of my chair cheering when I heard her say that, knowing that they would be unable to ruin the original mix.

It was never super clear, but you can barely (if at all) make out Norman screaming

[Show spoiler]"I'm Norma Bates" at the climax when he runs into the cellar with the knife

in the new mix. If it weren't for the subtitles, you'd never know he says it.