"a cult following, perhaps due to its directorial and aesthetic indulgences, its early 1980s new wave soundtrack, and the use of iconic Los Angeles locations. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 78% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The movie's trailer won a Clio Award in 1984. ""Body Double"" is referenced repeatedly throughout the Bret Easton Ellis novel ""American Psycho"" as the favorite film of the protagonist serial killer Patrick Bateman. He mentions that he has seen the film 37 times and rents the tape of it"
"the 11th floor of the American Gardens Building (where he is a neighbor of actor Tom Cruise). In his secret life, however, Bateman is a serial killer murdering a variety of people, from colleagues to the homeless to prostitutes. His crimes—including rape, torture, necrophilia, and cannibalism—are described in graphic detail in the novel. Bateman comes from a wealthy family. His parents have a house on Long Island, and he mentions a summer house in Newport. His parents divorced sometime earlier, while his mother became sick and now resides at a sanatorium. His father, who first appeared in Ellis' preceding novel"
"the novel to appear on Broadway. The musical premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in December 2013. Ellis researched murders at the New York Public Library. His first draft of ""American Psycho"" left all the grisly scenes until last, to be added in later. In 2010, in conversation with Jeff Baker, Ellis commented: Set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the late 1980s, ""American Psycho"" follows the life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman. Bateman, in his mid-20s when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his recreational life among the Wall Street elite of New"
"reason at all) and having no consideration for other people. He attempts suicide at multiple points in the book, first by hanging, then by slashing his wrist with a dull razor, and then by overdose after a falling out with Lauren. A major subplot in the novel is Sean's debt to Rupert, a violent townie drug dealer who often threatens to kill him. The character is the brother of the notorious Patrick Bateman and has also appeared in Ellis's other novels, ""American Psycho"", ""The Informers"" and ""Glamorama"". Lauren is a painter and poet who has sexual relations with several boys"
"patterning himself on Bateman. Toward the novel's end, Ellis writes the 'last' Bateman story as a way of confronting and controlling the character, as well as the issues Ellis created Bateman as a means of countering. Bateman, for all intents and purposes, dies in a fire on a boat dock. In the Showtime series ""Dexter"", protagonist Dexter Morgan, himself a serial killer, uses the alias ""Dr. Patrick Bateman"" to acquire M-99 for the use of incapacitating his victims. There is a recurring character in the video game Criminal Case named Christian Bateman (a combination of the names Christian Bale and"
"also a serial killer. Garner concludes that the film was a ""coal-black satire"" in which ""dire comedy mixes with Grand Guignol. There's demented opera in some of its scenes."" The book, meanwhile, has acquired ""grudging respect"" and is ""seen as a transgressive bag of broken glass that can be talked about alongside plasma-soaked trips like Anthony Burgess's ""A Clockwork Orange"""". Garner claims that the novel's author, Bret Easton Ellis, ""was racing ahead of the culture"" and that his book ""was ahead of its time"": ""The culture has shifted to make room for Bateman. We've developed a taste for barbaric libertines"
"March 1999 in Toronto, Canada. As promotion, one could register to receive e-mails ""from"" Patrick Bateman, supposedly to his therapist. The e-mails, written by a writer attached to the film and approved by the book's author Bret Easton Ellis, follow Bateman's life since the events of the film. He discusses such developments as his marriage to (and impending divorce settlement with) his former secretary, Jean, his complete adoration of his son, Patrick Jr., and his efforts to triumph over his business rivals. The e-mails also describe or mention interactions with other characters from the novel, including Timothy Price (Bryce in"
"he imagined ""a psychotic who worked on Wall Street"" would describe such incidents. Some commentary, including in scientific journals, has suggested the Bateman character appears to be a psychopath. However, Bateman also exhibits signs of psychosis such as hallucinations, and as such appears to be an unreliable narrator; it is left ambiguous whether Bateman is actually a serial killer, or is merely hallucinating about committing murder. In Ellis' 1998 novel ""Glamorama"" which features models-turned-terrorists a character also remarks ""basically, everyone was a sociopath...and all the girls' hair was chignoned."" In the 1993 book ""Girl, Interrupted"" and its 1999 film adaptation,"
"The Business (novel) The Business is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1999. Kate Telman is a 'level 3' executive in the Business, a vast business empire. During her sabbatical year, she comes to suspect that some of her colleagues are stealing from the organisation, and investigates. The book starts with a 4:37 a.m. phone call from Mike Daniels to Kathryn (Kate) Telman. He has been drugged, and about half of his teeth randomly and expertly extracted, just before an important meeting in Japan. The Business is a powerful (yet democratic) multinational commercial organisation, secretive (but"
"Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. At the age of 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller ""Less Than Zero"" (1985), was published by"
"""The Rules of Attraction"", grew up on an estate in Connecticut, and now owns an apartment in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. He is assumed to be dead as he is mentioned only in past tense during the novel. Bateman's younger brother Sean attends Camden College (and is a protagonist of Ellis' previous novel, ""The Rules of Attraction"", in which Patrick Bateman was first introduced). Bateman attended Phillips Exeter Academy for prep school. He graduated from Harvard College in 1984 and Harvard Business School two years later, and moved to New York City. By the end of the novel, he"
"mutilation and rape in Bateman's office journal. Bateman sees Harold at a restaurant and mentions the phone message he left the prior night. Harold mistakes Bateman for another colleague and laughs off the phone message confession as a joke, saying he had dinner with Allen in London days earlier. A confused Bateman returns to his friends. In a final voice-over narration, he realizes he will continue to escape the punishment he deserves, and that there has been no catharsis: ""This confession has meant nothing"". Producer Edward R. Pressman purchased the film rights to Bret Easton Ellis's novel ""American Psycho"" in"
"that the film's script was altered with the incorporation of the Patrick Bateman subplot. The film starts with a 12-year-old girl whose babysitter is on a date with serial killer Patrick Bateman. After Bateman kills and starts to dissect her babysitter, the girl stabs him with an ice pick. Fast forward to the present day and the girl, who is named Rachael Newman, is now a college student studying criminology under Professor Starkman, a former FBI agent. Rachael aspires to join the FBI and is determined to get the teaching assistant position under Starkman, which would make her a shoo-in"
"is a 26-year-old investment banker living in New York City at the end of the 1980s. As the show begins, Bateman documents his morning routine, which involves fastidious grooming, tanning and carefully selecting a designer suit, before travelling to Wall Street (""Opening (Morning Routine)""/""Selling Out""). He arrives at Pierce & Pierce, the elite bank for which he works, and is greeted by his doting secretary, Jean (""Everybody Wants to Rule the World""). He anxiously enquires about the Fisher account, an exclusive account that is highly sought after by Patrick and his colleagues. Later, Patrick has lunch with his coworkers, Tim"
"terrorism. As an unintelligent narrator, Victor (through his inability to comprehend his situation), underlines how ""the world of celebrity in ""Glamorama"" is inescapable"". Compared to other Ellis protagonists, Victor is less ""sensitive and insightful"" than ""Less Than Zero""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Clay, neither the ""preening psychopath"" that is ""American Psycho""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Patrick Bateman"", he is nevertheless an ""[un]sympathetic protagonist (in his own way, he's as morally bankrupt as ... Patrick Bateman)."" As narrator, ""Victor's perceptions"" sum up ""[the glamor world's] disconnection from what the rest of us consider ""real life""... [where] Everything he sees is a brand name."" CNN speculates when Victor begins speaking"
"believes he is about to be arrested for murdering a colleague named Paul Owen, and leaves a message on his lawyer's answering machine confessing to his crimes. When he runs into his lawyer at a party, however, the man mistakes him for somebody else and tells him that the message must have been a joke, as he had met with Owen only days earlier. Bateman realizes that the punishment and notoriety he desires will be forever out of his reach, and that he is trapped inside a pointless existence: ""This is not an exit"". As written by Ellis, Bateman is"
"apartment as a place to host and kill more victims. Bateman's control over his violent urges deteriorates. His murders become increasingly sadistic and complex, progressing from simple stabbings to drawn-out sequences of rape, torture, mutilation, cannibalism, and necrophilia, and his grasp on sanity begins to slip. He introduces stories about serial killers into casual conversations and on several occasions openly confesses his murderous activities to his coworkers, who never take him seriously, do not hear what he says, or misunderstand him completely—for example, hearing the words ""murders and executions"" as ""mergers and acquisitions."" These incidents culminate in a shooting spree"
"ambiguous nature of Bateman's crimes. In terms of Clay's psychology, Ellis notes his preponderance for a ""masochistic cycle of control and rejection and seduction and inevitable pain"", which ""is something he gets off on because he's ...a masochist and not a romantic."" The ""Los Angeles Times"" notes how Clay ""shares biographical details with Ellis"", a successful party-boy, who in 1985 was ""often conflated with his fictional counterpart."" Ellis asserts to the contrary, ""I'm not really Clay."" As opposed to his portrayal in ""Less Than Zero"", Clay is more unambiguously manipulative in ""Bedrooms""; he is, in Ellis' words, ""guilty"". As in"
"an unreadable, pretentious disaster"", but concluded that Maddox ""pulls it off with a kind of fearless pizzazz"". ""The New York Times""' Emily Barton conceded that ""for all its blunders"", Maddox delivers ""a winsome and vastly entertaining novel"". In an interview, Maddox praised Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel ""American Psycho"", stating that he drew inspiration from protagonist Patrick Bateman's long-winded monologues about Phil Collins, restaurants, clothes, and how to remove blood from his carpets. In 2001, Maddox promoted his first novel on a joint book tour billed as the ""Minor Novelists Tour"" with his friend William Monahan, another former ""Spy"" editor,"
"Psycho (novel) Psycho is a 1959 thriller novel by American writer Robert Bloch. The novel tells the story of Norman Bates, caretaker at an isolated motel who struggles under his domineering mother and becomes embroiled into a series of murders. The novel is widely recognized as Bloch's most enduring work and one of the most influential horror books of the 20th Century. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1960 film of the same name, and was loosely adapted into the ""Bates Motel"" television series (2013-2017). Bloch later wrote two sequels, which are unrelated to any of the film"
"the elite upper class think and react to society on a normal basis. Bateman's epistemology and ethics in regards to his actions and way of thinking throughout the novel is a reflection, through his violence, which raises the questions of the moral and ethical understanding of all individuals in Bateman's position and status, and how they might act and think similar or completely identical in a consumer world built on capitalism as we see in today's American society. The book was originally to have been published by Simon & Schuster in March 1991, but the company withdrew from the project"
"serial killer Patrick Bateman in ""American Psycho"" (2000). In 2004, he lost 63 pounds for his role in the psychological thriller ""The Machinist"" (2004). Within six months, he gained 100 pounds to star as Batman in Christopher Nolan's superhero film ""Batman Begins"" (2005). He later reprised his role in ""The Dark Knight"" and ""The Dark Knight Rises"". Bale continued to take on starring roles, in Nolan's period drama ""The Prestige"" (2006), the western """" (2007), the science fiction film ""Terminator Salvation"" (2009), and the crime drama ""Public Enemies"" (2009). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his"
"Glamorama Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. ""Glamorama"" is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism. ""Time"" describes the novel as ""a screed against models and celebrity."" Ellis wanted to write a Stephen King-style ghost story novel, which would eventually become ""Lunar Park""; finding it difficult at the time, he began work on the other novel which he had in mind. This was a Robert Ludlum-style thriller, with the intention of using one of his own vapid characters who lack insight as the narrator. The novel is a satire of modern"
"Norman Bates Norman Bates is a fictional character created by American author Robert Bloch as the main antagonist in his 1959 thriller novel ""Psycho""; portrayed by Anthony Perkins in the 1960 version of ""Psycho"" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the ""Psycho"" franchise. He is also portrayed by Vince Vaughn in the 1998 version of ""Psycho"", and by Freddie Highmore in the television series ""Bates Motel"" (2013–2017). Unlike the franchise produced by Universal Studios, Norman is not the principal antagonist in Bloch's subsequent novels and is succeeded by copycat killers who assume Norman's identity after his death in 1982's ""Psycho II""."
"Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. He has also written a series of novels about the history of crime in Detroit (also the setting of his Walker books), and a more recent series about Valentino, who tracks down lost films, and crimes related to them. His non-series works include ""Bloody Season"", a fictional recreation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and several novels and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, as well as contributions to several books on how to write and sell stories and novels. Estleman's literary works have been recognized and highlighted by Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers"
"U.S. Bates, who owns the paper, a department store and many other businesses. Brown is humiliated as he clumsily attempts to serve food at a luncheon. He is fired from that gig by Bates, but ""Master"" Eric Bates, the spoiled son of the boss, sees Jack while looking through Bates' department store. Amused at seeing Jack goof around in the store's toy section, Eric informs his father's long-suffering right-hand man, Sydney Morehouse, that what he wants is Jack himself. Morehouse fails to convince Eric that human beings cannot be owned. In exchange for a generous financial settlement to stave off"
"and Ariel Olivetti By Adam Beechen, Steve Scott, and Nathan Massengill By Matt Wayne and Steven Cummings The murder of a black market dealer who specializes in authentic Batman-related memorabilia (lost Batarangs, cowls, etc.) leads Batman to Akihabara, where he must comb the Electric City's various themed establishments to find a Yakuza leader that has a rather disturbing fetish for costumed heroes. By Christos N. Gage and Phil Winslade Famed assassin Deadshot returns to Gotham, following the events of ""Infinity Crisis"", to kill a witness who is set to testify against a corrupt businessman. Knowing of his recent heroic actions"
"confesses ""I didn't want to finally own up to the responsibility of being Patrick Bateman, so I laid it on my father, I laid it on Wall Street."" In reality, the book had been ""about me at the time, and I wrote about all my rage and feelings."" To James Brown, he clarified Bateman was based on ""my father a little bit but I was living that lifestyle; my father wasn't in New York the same age as Patrick Bateman, living in the same building, going to the same places that Patrick Bateman was going to."" Ellis named his first"
"and businessman—destroying not only their deep and true passionate, romantic love but also their very lives. The novel follows from three different character perspectives: Keith Clayton, Elizabeth Green, and Logan Thibault. The novel was adapted into a 2012 film starring Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling. The book deals with the themes of starcrossed fate and destiny. Despite the allusions to such themes made in the novel, Sparks admitted that he does not necessarily believe in either. He adds, however, that he is ""a big believer in the fact that people have the ability to influence the future in a way"
"Bateman, what the consequences of how ""serialized consummer exhanges in an economy where commodities and bodies become interchangeable and indistinguishable,"" could affect society, and the way affluent people view others whether they are higher, lower, or the same in wealth or social status. The Critic T. Heise states, ""the uncertainty about the reality of Patrick’s violence has become the chief critical debate on American Psycho, and it serves as a convenient introduction to the entanglement of epistemology and ethics in the novel."" Bateman's character and traits according to Heise challenges what we understand as the social norms for the way"
"the ultimate stereotype of yuppie greed; rich, shallow, and addicted to sex, drugs, and conspicuous consumption. All of his friends look alike to him, to the point that he often confuses one for another; they often confuse him for other people as well. Bateman takes delight in obsessively detailing virtually every single feature of his designer clothes, workout routine, business cards, alcoholic drinks, elaborate high-end stereo and home theater sound system. He is engaged to an equally rich, shallow woman named Evelyn Richards. He has a mistress on the side and has regular liaisons with prostitutes and women he encounters"
"at Brandeis University. In 1994 he published a book of children's poetry, ""Daddy, daddy, can you touch the sky?"", with Jonathan Kellerman. For a time he served as lead guitarist for the LA-based indie rock band Don't Shoot the Dog. He is an Orthodox Jew, as are his parents, and resides in California with his wife, Gabriella Sarah (Rosen), and their two children. Jesse Kellerman Jesse Oren Kellerman (born September 1, 1978) is an American novelist and playwright. He has published the novels: ""Sunstroke"" (2006), ""Trouble"" (2007), ""The Genius"" (2008), ""The Executor"" (2010), ""I'll Catch You"" (2012), and with his"
"Dan Starkey (series) The ""Dan Starkey"" novel series is written by Colin Bateman. It revolves around the private detective Dan Starkey and cases that Starkey investigates. Events of Bateman's debut novel ""Divorcing Jack"" (1995), set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, follow a turbulent period in the life of married, cynical and usually drunk journalist Dan Starkey. Dan's wife Patricia leaves him after a drunken party in which he kisses student Margaret. What follows is a darkly comical tale of murder and mystery. The novel was adapted into the film with the same name. In ""Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men"" (1996),"