Two particularly horrible, recent examples leap to mind: the American versions of The Vanishing and Diabolique. However, for every good remake, there are probably ten bad ones. One could even argue a case for Dino DeLaurentiis' 1976 King Kong, which, while lacking the creativity of the original, performed an update by injecting an element of campy comedy. Examples include Sommersby, which re-worked the French classic, The Return of Martin Guerre The Magnificent Seven, a Western version of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai and High Society, which turned The Philadelphia Story into a musical.
Successful remakes take older material and do something new, interesting, and intelligent with it.
A rare few manage to eclipse their inspirations, but most are, to one degree or another, inferior. Remakes come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. As far as I can tell, there are two audiences for this film: those who have seen Hitchcock's classic thriller and are curious about the remake, and those who haven't previously seen Psycho but are willing to give this new edition a shot because it features actors they "know" and is in color. Redundant and unnecessary as it is, it will likely make money for Universal Pictures (a studio in dire need of a box office success). There's no secret why this new version of Psycho exists.
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