American Psycho II: The Horror Continues

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Movie
German title American Psycho II: The Horror Continues
Original title American Psycho II: All American Girl
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Morgan J. Freeman
script Karen Craig , Alex Sanger
production Ernie Barbarash , Christian Halsey Solomon , Chris Hanley , Richard Hull , Michael Paseornek
music Norman Orenstein
camera Vanja Černjul
cut Mark Sanders
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American Psycho

American Psycho II: The Horror Continues (English American Psycho II: All American Girl ) is an American thriller directed by Morgan J. Freeman from 2002 . The film is a Direct-to-Video - continuation of the thriller American Psycho from the year 2000 . Mila Kunis plays the leading role .

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After Rachael Newman was taken by her babysitter to see psychopathic serial killer Patrick Bateman, she killed him while he was busy killing her babysitter. Six years later she is at a university and desperately wants to be the assistant of her professor Robert Starkman, since that would be her ticket to the FBI. Starkman used to be a profiler with the FBI, the latest case of which was that of serial killer Patrick Bateman. However, she faces stiff competition for the assistant position, including Starkman's mistress. One by one, she kills all competitors and the people who stand in her way. The whole time she plays a game with a psychologist who is friends with Starkman. Among other things, she answers the psychologist's question who she would like to be apart from herself with Elisabeth McGuire.

However, as Starkman decides in the year after the alleged suicide of his lover to take time off and not fill the assistant position, Rachael finally kills him and reveals some secrets. So you learn that the babysitter was also Starkman's lover at the time. At the end of the film it turns out that she is not Rachael Newman at all, but killed her and assumed her identity. Ultimately, she fakes her death with the corpse of the real Rachael Newman, which she had kept in her closet the whole time. She makes the car crash into a river and explode. Everyone thinks she is dead.

Two years later, the psychologist presented the book he wrote about Rachael Newman to the FBI. She goes to him after his lecture to have her copy signed for Elisabeth McGuire. She reveals herself to him and he learns through someone that she has become the first agent at the FBI with this identity who was recruited in her second year. In the end, she says she needs someone who knows about her perfect series of murders, otherwise it would be as if she had done nothing.

Reviews

Paul Matwychuk wrote in the Canadian Vue Weekly that the film was one of the “weirdest” (“odd”) and “most inexplicable” sequels in cinema history.

David Nusair wrote on www.reelfilm.com that the film was fraught with many problems, one of which is the glaring of Mila Kunis. He described the portrayal of William Shatner as the "sole bright spot".

The television magazine TV Spielfilm criticized the film as "unimaginative work" and concluded that it was a "morbid, cheap slasher orgy".

The lexicon of international films meant that the film was not a continuation of American Psycho and “not a study of a meaningless performance society”, but “an effectively staged, flawlessly photographed thriller with some shock effects and a good dose of black humor”.

Trivia

  • One of the students Rachael kills has a diary very similar to Bateman's .
  • The music that plays on Rachel's car radio while she is being chased by the police is the background music for the title theme of the film Beetlejuice .
  • In the film, the beginning of the song Fiery Nights by Ronan Hardiman, which is actually part of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, is used several times .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ criticism of Paul Matwychuk
  2. ^ Critique by David Nusair
  3. ↑ Critique of TV Spielfilm
  4. ↑ American Psycho II: The Horror Continues. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used