Genre research: American Psycho

So the movie that i have chosen for this blog is American psycho. first before we begin let me give you a short synopsis on American psycho. American psycho is 1 of the top 200 movies ever made as decreed by rotten tommatoes.it was April 14 2000 when this movie was released and it made 15 million at the box office. the synopsis reads as follows "In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective (Willem Dafoe), the fiancé (Reese Witherspoon), the mistress (Samantha Mathis), the coworker (Jared Leto), and the secretary (Chloë Sevigny). This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster." Now that you have some what of an understanding of the movie  its time for me to explain elements of a horror  that this movie has. First off this movie  has an important convention that almost all horrors have. The theme in question is the theme of murder. Like I said in a previous blog , the fear of death has always been one of mans greatest fear. With that being said it makes it perfect for a horror movie. Another element in this movie that I see in horror is the use of a weapon of some sort. in this case it one of the most conventional type of weapons, cutlery. Both of these elements I like and plan to add them in some shape or form in my short movie. There isn't much that this movie has that I didn't like which pertained to horror but if i had to chose it would be evil laughter because I've seen so much to where it got tacky.

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