American Psycho (USA: Mary Harron, 2000: 102 mins)
Christian Bale's performance as the killer yuppie Patrick Bateman in Mary Harron's 2000 version of American Psycho would, for some, usher in an entire world of uncaring yuppies who would carve up the bodies of innocents, not with power drills, but with mortgages at unsustainable rates. But the movie's most unsettling moment belongs not to Bateman, whose own descent into madness render him an intentional caricature. ("Try getting a reservation at Dorsia's now, you fucking stupid bastard!" he shouts as he ax-murders Jared Leto's financier ... to the beat of Huey Lewis and the News' "Hip to Be Square.") It comes a moment later in the movie, when he revisits the apartment that is the site of several of his kills. The apartment has been repainted, and a real estate agent is showing it off and, encountering him, firmly and calmly asks him to leave. She is clearly aware of the murders. She is almost certainly aware of who she is talking to. She doesn't care. She just wants the commission. That, Harron says, is the face of American capitalism (412). -- Dauber, Jeremy. American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
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Rabin, Nathan. "American Psycho put Patrick Bateman, and the world he called home, under a microscope." The Dissolve (April 15, 2014)
Gross, Anisse. "Mary Harron [SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR]." Believer (March/April 2014)
Guthat, Paula. "Special Report: American Psycho (2000)." The Projection Booth (June 20, 2017) ["Based on the controversial book by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (2000) tells the tale of Wall Street's Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), his murderous rampage, and the world of the late 1980s Manhattan."]
Holden, Stephen. "American Psycho (2000) FILM REVIEW; Murderer! Fiend! (But Well Dressed)." The New York Times (April 14, 2000)
Kapica, Stephen S. "The multivalent feminism of The Notorious Bettie Page." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Kooijman, Jaap. "Teaching American Psycho." The Cine-Files #9 (2016)
"Margot Robbie’s Beauty Routine Is Psychotically Perfect." Vogue (May 13, 2016)
Morton, Drew. "The American Dream in Film: As the man said, ‘America’s not a country. It’s just a business.’" Keyframe (May 30, 2016)
Phipps, Keith, et al. "American Psycho: Materialism, Misogyny, and Machismo." The Dissolve (April 16, 2014)
Rabin, Nathan. "American Psycho put Patrick Bateman, and the world he called home, under a microscope." The Dissolve (April 15, 2014)
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