2000 · thriller · horror · comedy
American Psycho
Directed by Mary Harron1h 42m2000
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Our read: American Psycho (2000) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
American Psycho counts for a challenge
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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