American Psycho: The Complete History of Patrick Bateman | Horror History

Real.

I think it’s funny that in the novel Tom Cruise and Patrick Bateman meet When in real life Christian Bale actually says he got his inspiration to act as he did as Bateman because he saw an interview with Tom Cruise where he was friendly but he had nothing behind his eyes

That's impressive. Let's see Paul Allen's complete history.

The fact that Nolan never has Bruce Wayne use the excuse, "I need to return some video tapes," in his Batman movies is just a big missed opportunity.

William Defoe was told to do three takes of the interview scene. One where he knew Bateman was the killer, one where he suspected he was and one where he had no idea. The three takes were then spliced together.

My take is, Bateman actually killed all those people but the lawyer got it all fixed up and kept hinting at Bateman to just shut up and "fit in".

"he goes home, changes suits, gives himself a pedicure and tortures a dog to death" Well that's a sentence I never thought I'd hear

Personally as an incredible fan of the novel I’ve found every theory of the film to be extremely believable, however my favorite is that every murder that Patrick commits is real, but anything absurd that we see happen is a side effect of his heavy drug usage. Patrick is genuinely murdering people however because he’s so bland and boring he cant get caught, because simply no one cares what he’s doing.

Bateman's hatred for live music is actually easy. He loves the studio over produced top 40 hits and what is deemed popular. Live music often deviates and sometimes is improvisational amd experimental even from top 40 artists, its not controlled, conformed, its changing, chaotic even from tje same 80s stars such as huey lewis and phil collins both chapters in the book. Its why he likes "Sports" and "Fore" from Huey and not "Picture This" he mentions their earlier work and how its too new wavish

A 2 hour long CZ video is more then we deserve lol

Fun fact. In the Dexter books (and show) Dexter uses Patrick Bateman as his veterinarian alias to get the tranquilizer he uses

Something i noticed in the novel was how patrick seemed to always eat sugary foods outside of his normal diet whenever he performed certain kills, like with the dog walker where he shoveled cereal into his mouth by the handful or when he would buy dove bars and other foods. I haven't read it in a while but I think it could be used as a clue as to whether or not some of what he did was real or not. I think I thought he ate after real incidents but i can't remember what made me conclude that.

I don't know what's scarier; a book about a wealthy serial killer, or the knowledge that the author acted out his fantasies through the book.

Damn, didn't know Bateman had this much lore... let's see Paul Allen's horror history

CZsWorld's first feature length film omg I wasn't expecting a 2 hour video and I am HERE FOR IT!

the movie: 1hr 43m the lore: 2hr 10m my apparent attention span for american psycho: ♾️

In NYC in the 80's there weren't cameras everywhere & people were violently assaulted in public (streets, subway stations & trains, toilets, parks) my Aunt was assaulted in public twice - people just looked away - NYC had long run as "murder capital of the world", it was only just starting to clean up & was still very dangerous. Also it was not common, but expected that limo & taxi drivers would take you get drugs & sex-workers, hell some drivers used it as a side hustle. So all those things could have absolutely happened.

I never actually put it together in my mind that Sean is Patrick Bateman's brother. It all makes perfect sense now.

Something I love pointing out to help the theory it was all in Patrick's head was when he was dragging the body through the lobby there was a blood trail but when you get outside and the camera shows the lobby behind him there's no blood trail. Couple that with the fact at the end the lawyer says he never got a call from him drives it home

The laugh Patrick gets after trying to get a reservation at Dorsia is chilling because you know Patrick's whole life just flipped upside down. Probably the first time in awhile or maybe ever someone didnt say yes to him. No connections or wealth can get that table for 2!...but it can buy a nice overnight bag