The queerest 'horror' movie I've ever seen.

Rating: 7/10 (27 January 2017)

**Extra Spoiler Warning**
It's hard to describe American Psycho exactly... it's just as psychotic as the main character Patrick Bateman would have you believe. This film is an 80s nostalgia piece, a comedy-horror, a psychological film and the film that shot Christian Bale into Hollywood stardom pre-Batman Begins era. Bale's performance is great in this thing; he's a knockout, but it's unfortunate that the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Then again, maybe that's the whole point of the story.
Adapting a book is hard. I never read the book American Psycho, but I can tell that a lot of the satirical nature of the book would have been incredibly difficult to capture on film. It does a nice satire of American capitalist life and we can sort of see why Bateman turns out the way he is. The thing that really sells this movie is Bale's performance as Bateman, which I think is probably one of the best performances in the last quarter-century of cinema. The story though? It's implied that it's all COMPLETELY in his head.
I thought it was fun, but it was quite easily the weirdest film I've ever seen. I've seen quirky films before like Bran Nue Dae and Rock & Rule, and those films had simpler concepts to explore. American Psycho on the other hand is a story about a man trying to find his 'super-ego' in a world that he's grown sick and tired of. He f###s girls to Phil Collins music, kills a colleague while listening to Huey Lewis and The News' Hip to be Square; and he kills one of his female colleagues by DROPPING AN ACTIVE CHAINSAW down a staircase.
If you want a film that is oddly colourful yet has the gruesomeness of slasher films, have characters look like they were ripped out of Dr Seuss stories whilst seeing its main character on killing sprees played to pop-music of the 80s, then this is the movie for you.
Also, it is unusually funny, like humorous funny. I'm not kidding.
This is probably what smoking LSD feels like for a serial killer.