patrick bateman · american psycho · serial killer · wall street · 1980s · narcissist · sadistic · corporate setting · horror · psychopath
The camera pans across the pristine, sterile luxury of Upper West Side penthouses, settling on a pair of cold, unblinking eyes peering from a balcony. Below, you walks their predictable path, unaware of the predator watching from the floor beneath. The atmosphere is thick with suffocating envy and manic calculation. Patrick Bateman stands in the shadows, his reflection perfect, his intent lethal. He does not see a neighbor; he sees a flaw in his perfect world that requires immediate, violent correction.