History Film / AmericanPsycho

!!Tropes present in the film adaptation:

->''There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing...''

* HateSink: Patrick's coworkers, given that they spend their entire pagetime talking about superficial nonsense while spewing sexist remarks.

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-->'''Carnes:''' ...I had dinner with Paul Allen... twice... in London... just ten days ago.

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Happens during Patrick's date with Jean. During the whole date Patrick is going back and forth if he should kill Jean, ultimatly he uses an unexpected phone call from Evelyn as an excuse to send Jean on her way. He tells Jean that he can't control himself and that he might hurt Jean. Jean thinks he's talking about them having sex and him hurting her emotionally by returning to Evelyn. To the audience it's clear he will kill her if she stays.

The film also stars Creator/ChloeSevigny, Creator/JoshLucas, Creator/JustinTheroux, Creator/MattRoss, Bill Sage, Anthony Lemke, and Creator/SamanthaMathis. The soundtrack is loaded with '80s music, including songs by Music/DavidBowie, Music/PhilCollins, Music/NewOrder, Music/TheCure and -- [[SignatureScene of course]] -- Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews.

A movie sequel InNameOnly was released in 2002; tropes related to it can be found [[Film/AmericanPsycho2AllAmericanGirl here]].

Sumerian published a ''ComicBook/AmericanPsycho'' sequel series with two intertwining plots about Bateman and a millennial killer, Charlene "Charlie" Carruthers.

* HateSink:
** Patrick Bateman, a soulless corporatist who butchers people for both fun and to vent his own superiority complex. [[spoiler:Even if he isn't actually killing anybody, he's fantasizing about it, and he's still a bigoted asshole whose idea of relieving his "misery" is being an asshole.]]
** Patrick's coworkers aren't much better, given that they spend their entire pagetime talking about superficial nonsense while spewing sexist remarks.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "I have to return some videotapes."

-->-- '''Patrick Bateman''', [[{{Catchphrase}} throughout the film]]

* PopCulturedBadass: Deconstructed. In place of an authentic, cultivated human personality, Patrick Bateman constantly strives to be recognized by his peers (as well as the reader/audience) for his knowledge and appreciation of music, art, and pop culture, but his grasp and understanding of the art and media that he consumes is reduced to what material is made the most appealing to the widest audiences and LowestCommonDenominator[[note]]In-universe[[/note]], such as dismissing early Music/{{Genesis|Band}} albums with Music/PeterGabriel (and his "lame solo career") as being "too artsy, too intellectual" and favoring the more commercially-driven direction of the group after Music/PhilCollins became the group's frontman. All of this only serves to further demonstrate Patrick's emptiness, shallowness, and delusions about having "good taste."

''American Psycho'' is a 2000 satirical black comedy film directed by Creator/MaryHarron and co-written by her and Creator/GuinevereTurner, adapted from Creator/BretEastonEllis' [[Literature/AmericanPsycho 1991 novel of the same name]] and starring Creator/ChristianBale.

Like the book, the film follows Patrick Bateman (Bale), a handsome, charming, and wealthy investment banker based in New York City during [[TheEighties the late 1980's]]. Unbeknownst to his circle of fancy associates, including his girlfriend Evelyn (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon), Bateman is also a psychotic SerialKiller.

* FanDisservice: When Bateman is running around with nothing but shoes and socks on... [[ChainsawGood and a chainsaw]] intended for another murder. Also the sex scenes really aren't that sexy, and very intentionally so. (The scene with the streetwalker and the call girl should be sexy, since all three actors are very attractive, but Bateman's overwhelming egoism and gross instructions to the girls make it most unsexy indeed.)

* GagPenis: While chasing Christie with a chainsaw, Bateman positions it at crotch-level and at an angle resembling a cartoonishly massive erection, adding a tone of BlackComedy to the scene.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Apart from being a sadistic {{serial killer}}, Patrick is also racist, antisemitic, misogynistic, elitist and homophobic (though so are most of his associates, except the serial killer part).

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Patrick's very cold dumping of Evelyn was cruel, no doubt about that, but it's difficult to imagine anyone wanting to commit to a lifetime of Evelyn's company.

* SignificantSketchbook: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Patrick Bateman's secretary finds his planner, which is filled with horrifying sketches of women being tortured, maimed and dismembered.]]

* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Patrick rents out ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'' every time he visits the video store. His inner monologue worries that the clerk is starting to get suspicious with how often he's borrowing it.

* SeenStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Patrick rents out ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'' every time he visits the video store. His inner monologue worries that the clerk is starting to get suspicious with how often he's borrowing it.