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Podcast: Slashers
Episode: American Psycho (2000)
Description: While American Psycho was released in 2000, it is set in the 1980s. After typing the title of this episode though, I am totes into a reboot set in the year 2000, but with less frosted tips and more killer robots.Â
Odds are, you know this movie if only for the tremendous performance by Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Ford Vs. Ferrari, The Machinist). His adaptation of the character, Patrick Bateman, from Bret Easton Ellis' novel, is a masterclass. Apparently, to get the author's blessing to play the character, Bale met up with Ellis for dinner, completely in costume and c...