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‘American Psycho’ Spoofed with Huey Lewis and Weird Al!
“Hey, Al…”
Talk about going full meta.
One of my all-time favorite horror movies is Lionsgate’s American Psycho, directed by Mary Harron from a novel by Bret Easton Ellis. I could be flipping through the channels, and if I catch the film at any point it would be impossible for me to turn off. It’s more than a classic, it’s a masterpiece. Christian Bale‘s performance as Patrick Bateman was Oscar-worthy, delivering chills through insane monologs that were typically about the meaning behind some of his favorite albums.
Bateman’s rival in the film is Paul Allen, played by Jared Leto. In one of the film’s most intense sequences, Allen is drinking in Bateman’s apartment as Bateman prepares to murder his associate. But before he does, he goes into a long diatribe about Huey Lewis & the News‘ excellent Fore!, while explaining the meaning behind the album and the track “Hip to be Square”. Allen hilarious notes the newspaper all over the floor, and the raincoat Bateman is wearing as he brims with excitement as he talks about Fore! and brings an axe down on his head.
Funny or Die spoofed the aforementioned scene in which Huey Lewis portrays Bateman and Weird Al appears as Paul Allen. They flip the script by having Lewis boast about Lionsgate’s American Psycho, speaking about its life on video, Bale’s performance and how it received new life on video. Al’s mention of the newspaper on the floor is the spoof’s best joke, “Are you referencing Huey Lewis & the News or something?”
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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