31 days of horror Year 3 day 31 tenth film

American Psycho
2000
Lionsgate Killer Collection edition DVD

Based on the controversial book,American Psycho is a film that tries to push the envelope. I misses this when it came out in theaters. So I rushed out and rented the DVD the day it came out. Having had read the book years ago I really enjoyed the film.

Patrick Bateman is a upper class yuppie. He works for a business that his father owns. He seems semi-normal,but we quickly realize that he is a sociopath. He has no problem with killing people that bother him. Patrick gets pissed off when someone has a better business card than he does. So he leaves and goes out and kills a bum and a dog.

Later on  Patrick meets up at a party with Paul. Patrick invites him back to his apartment. He puts on some music and comes up behind Paul and kills him with an ax. So Patrick disposes of the body. And then starts taking hookers back to the Paul's apartment. We get a great scene with Patrick buck naked chasing a hooker around the apartment complex with a chainsaw.

After killing a bunch of people.Patrick calls his lawyer to confess to all the killing he has done. He goes back to the dead guy's apartment. Where he has been storing most of the dead bodies. But when he gets there the apartment is cleaned up and a Realtor is showing it to some people interested in renting it. The next day Patrick runs into his lawyer at a bar. The lawyer seems to think that Patrick's phone call was a joke. And the lawyer claims that he saw Paul 10 days ago. So we are left wondering if Patrick has really been killing people,or was it all in his head.

Now the film is very different from the book. But the film is still pretty damn good.The acting is amazing. And all of the kills are well done. American Psycho gets a A-.