Part of Shocktober
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father’s firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie — obsessed with success, fashion and style. He is also a serial killer who murders and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances alike without provocation or reason.
Bret Easton Ellis’s dark and violent satire of 1980s America is brought to the screen in this unsettling adaptation by director Mary Harron.
“A comedy of murders…. The carnage, like the sex scenes, is shot so pristinely that it becomes a nouvelle-cuisine feast; this is a splatter film Martha Stewart could love.” —Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine (Apr 17, 2000)
“Watching AMERICAN PSYCHO is like witnessing a bravura sleight-of-hand feat. In adapting Bret Easton Ellis's turgid, gory 1991 novel to the screen, the director Mary Harron has boiled a bloated stew of brand names and butchery into a lean and mean horror comedy classic.” —Stephen Holden, NYT Critic’s Pick, New York Times (Apr 14, 2000)