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How American Psycho Patrick Bateman Became An American (Anti-)Hero

ISSUES Posted: March 31, 2016 4:45 am

“Over the past decade or so, Bateman has become a pop something, a grinning, blood-flecked national gargoyle. A brash new musical based on American Psycho is set to open on Broadway. You can purchase Bateman action figures. Bateman memes – photographs and GIFs from the director Mary Harron’s excellent 2000 film version of American Psycho – splash across every corner of the web. (‘I have to return some videotapes’ is among the movie’s indelible lines.)”

ISSUES Published: 03.27.16

Read the story in New York Times Published: 03.27.16

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