Patrick Bateman is a WaII Street yuppie obsessed with success, status and style with a stunning fiancée He is aIso a psychotic kiIler who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the fiIm offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie cuIture in the '80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chiIIing.