analysis of american horror story

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2. 1. TITLE
The font used for the title as you
can see is very basic , the worsd
‘psycho’ is highlitghed by the use
of the bold. Underlining the
presence of a psychological
ilness in the mind of one of the
characters.
2. SETTINGS
Manhattan in the late 1980s.
The main character is a buisness
man that enjoy the nice forniture
very elegant, he’s very selective
in what is inside his home and
he’s very proud of it.

3. 3. COSTUME AND PROPS
If we analyse only the main
character we can found a calssic
costum, but also a props that is
used very often that has become
a symbol of the film. The
earphone, he use it over the
elegant and classic suit and tie.
4. CAMERA WORK
Using as example this scene, we
can see a low angle shot, used for
make the viwer feeling powerless.
This kind of shots are very used in
psycho-thriller genere.

4. 5. CAST
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman
Willem Dafoe as Detective Donald
Kimball
Jared Leto as Paul Allen
Josh Lucas as Craig McDermott
Samantha Mathis as Courtney
Rawlinson
Matt Ross as Luis Carruthers
Bill Sage as David Van Patten
6. CHAREACTER INTRODUCTION
His daily morning exercise and
beautification routine, his music
collection, including performers
such as Huey Lewis and the News,
and Whitney Houston, his taste for
expensive designer clothes, and
the lavish couture of his
apartment. Bateman and his
associates flaunt their business
cards in a display of utter vanity.

5. 7. STORY
Patrick Bateman, lives Wall Street
by day and his nights are spent in
ways impossible to fathom. He's a
soul-less, modern monster whose
zealous materialism and piercing
envy fuels his homicidal activities.
8. GENRE SUGGESTION
When you see a psycho-thriller for
sure you wait for maniacal
obssesion, very often OCD, or
maybe big focus on superficial thing
as the main character of ‘American
Psycho’ is obsessed by his image,
and his lifestyle show it.

6. 9. SPECIAL EFFECTS
In ‘American Psycho’ there arn’t lot
of special effects, but or sure has
been used lot of make-up, like in
this scene fake blood, that is a
classic for thrillers.