Michael’s underhanded double feature. Murderous character studies in transgressive fiction. American Psycho and director Mary Harron. Female directors. Covering Christian Bale. Files Fisher’s video for This Must Be the Place. What’s terrifying about American Psycho? Ending revelations and how they inform characters who aren’t Patrick Bateman. Characters in shared fiction. Empire Magazine 20th Anniversary Pictures. Gmail. Chicago diner chains. How Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was made. Henry Lee Lucas. Voyeurism and long takes. Rebecca Watson and Team Human. Cynacism. Us or them. Selling agony: the worst thing that could possibly happen to a human being.
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American Psycho: 3:30 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer: 24:09
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Miles Fisher – This Must Be the Place Video
Empire Magazine Photoshoot
Also referenced: I Shot Andy Warhol, The Notorious Bettie Page, Ox, Six Feet Under, The L Word, Big Love, This Film is Not Yet Rated, The Dark Knight, Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands), Pirates of the Caribbean, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Frank Miller (Sin City), Wallstreet, Brazil, South Park, Dexter, Fight Club, Psycho, Mythbusters, Sum of All Fears, The Hunt for Red October, Out of Sight, Shaun of the Dead, Silence of the Lambs, Call of the Dead, Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects), Super, Mall Rats, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Escape from Butcher Bay, Seven, Videodrome, Machete, Kill Bill, Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, Chasing Amy, Russ Meyer (Up!), Crank, Shoot ‘Em Up
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American Psycho
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Director: Mary Harron
Writer: Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner
Starring: Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe, Guinevere Turner
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.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Director: John McNaughton
Writer: John McNaughton, Richard Fire
Starring: Michael Rooker, Racy Arnold, Tom Towles, Donna Dunlap
A character study of "Henry," based on the lies of actual killer Henry Lee Lucas.
