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It says a lot about the performance of Christian Bale as the murderous banker Patrick Bateman that, when most people hear the title American Psycho, they immediately think of Mary Harron’s 2000 movie rather than the original novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
American Psycho Stage Musical in the Works with Music by Duncan Sheik | /Film 2010
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'The Informers' was the 1994 follow-up to 'American Psycho'-and as such, I suppose any let down that some readers felt was inevitable considering the cult-status achieved by' American Psycho. '
OBLIQUITY65 2009
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Now that American Psycho, which is the subject of this month's Guardian book club, has become an established feature of the literary landscape and is generally acknowledged as a modern classic, it's fascinating to go back through the archives and discover how much critics hated the book when it first came out.
Guardian book club: Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho 2010
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To me it had a reminiscence of American Psycho, which is one of my favorite movies.
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Possibly best described as American Psycho if it had been written and directed by an actual psychopath, the film follows a demented Manhattan-based yuppie Cage, who may or may not go on a killing spree after being bitten by a vampire.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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What makes American Psycho so subversive is that it imagined soulless consumption and craven materialism taken to its seemingly inevitable conclusion.
Chez Pazienza: Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class Chez Pazienza 2011
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I had interviewed Ellis in '89 when he was working on American Psycho and he told me that he'd be crying from reading all these horrible books about serial killers, as he'd been working on a book "about a guy who works on Wall St. and like to kill prostitutes."
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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I had interviewed Ellis in '89 when he was working on American Psycho and he told me that he'd be crying from reading all these horrible books about serial killers, as he'd been working on a book "about a guy who works on Wall St. and like to kill prostitutes."
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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What makes American Psycho so subversive is that it imagined soulless consumption and craven materialism taken to its seemingly inevitable conclusion.
Chez Pazienza: Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class Chez Pazienza 2011
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What makes American Psycho so subversive is that it imagined soulless consumption and craven materialism taken to its seemingly inevitable conclusion.
Chez Pazienza: Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class Chez Pazienza 2011
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