American Psycho 4K 2000

There are almost ten years between the scandalous publication of Bret Easton Ellis’s nihilistic and yet deeply moralistic novel and its adaptation to the silver screen. When Mary Harron made the book into a film in 2000, it had long cult status. And the filmmaker responds to this with her version of the story about stockbroker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale).

In The Pianist, Roman Polanski created a scary atmosphere for two hours, a space of unscrupulous normality in which brutality had become the yardstick for all things. In Mary Harron's room, Patrick Bateman, a New York yuppie, moves from murder to murder.

His deeds, his sadistic desecrations, and murders, which Christian Bale celebrates with almost manic energy, naturally trigger horror in him too. But ultimately, fear and disgust always disappear after a bitter laugh. It turns Ellis’s angry accusation, which mythically exaggerates the accused, into a mocking reckoning with a culture that regards serial killings as fine art. Now on 4K Blu-ray and Dolby Atmos!