American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violently disturbing novel about a serial killer is brought to the screen. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) has a successful career with his father's Wall Street firm and is the stereotypical yuppie, obsessed with a materialistic world. Patrick is also a serial killer who slaughters both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe), a police detective, suppects Bateman's responsibility for the disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick had indeed killed a few days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins to fall apart.