Word: psychos
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...this short than one would expect. The brightly saturated colors and swooping camera work—as well as the relatively non-menacing villain—make it difficult to take the situation too seriously, and it becomes a black comedy in the vein of “American Psycho.” It succeeds in making viewers simultaneously laugh and cringe, but because it is the longest piece even though it takes place in one room and has fairly repetitive character interactions, it overstays its welcome...
...novel Less Than Zero, a not-very-tender account of the empty-eyed, drug-drenched L.A. teen-party scene, and along the way he acquired a reputation as a pretty hard-partying hombre himself. In 1991 he became notorious all over again for American Psycho, a semipornographic, ultraviolent best seller about an investment banker turned serial killer, which he successfully--and with some validity--passed off as an indictment of 1980s Manhattan greedhead culture...
...regular suburban dad. But Bret brings his demons with him, both figuratively--he can't kick the sauce and he's haunted by his late alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion is assailed by supernatural bogeys, including a real-world incarnation of Patrick Bateman, the titular American Psycho. If the pace flags in places, there are the bones of a great book here: Stephen King--style horror imbued with Ellis' trademark narcotized despair...
...London jury. The director of Chinatown and The Pianist won a libel case against Vanity Fair for a 2002 story that portrayed him as trying to seduce a Scandinavian model on his way to the 1969 funeral of his wife Sharon Tate, who was murdered by followers of psycho guru Charles Manson. The magazine stood by the story but said that the incident happened a few weeks later than reported...
...Leverett and Mather towers might be creepy with their revealing windows and psycho singles, but their high altitude rooftops are great sites for catching the rays...