The movie American Psycho may be the best possible film version of the scandalous Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.
After Ellis wrote it, his novel inspired a game of hot potato among publishers because of its explicit, first-person descriptions of torture-murders by narrator Patrick Bateman, a soulless Wall Street yuppie equally addicted to blood and designer labels. When it was finally published in 1991, it was greeted with protest rallies.
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