Coffee, tea, ax, or chainsaw?. . .

Rating: 1/10 (14 November 2000)

...which is your preference?
Norman Bates has graduated from that seedy, rundown motel off the beaten path, to the trendy American Gardens Apartments in chick Manhattan. Norm's got everything needed for an unusal evening of cocktails, banter and bloodletting.
Just don't bother to make plans too far in the future. Chances are, they might have to be cancelled. Rather indefinitely.
We've moved up from the conventional quick jab in the gut to multiple maxi-whollops with an ax, s/m play with coathangers and specially selected surgical instruments, and a penultimate life-and-death nude race through the hall before the final deathblow.
Welcome to "Intro to Horror Genre-101," twenty-first-century-style. If this makes 1960's "Psycho" seem like a child's bedtime tale, what's 2040's product going to be that'll make "American Psycho" play like "Harry Potter?"