It’s 35 years since Bret Easton Ellis’s third novel, American Psycho, unleashed Bateman on his rampage of sadistic violence, and it seems we’ve never stopped wanting more. In so many ways, American Psycho crashes headfirst into today’s cautious debates around identity politics. View image in fullscreen Making a killing … Christian Bale in the 2000 American Psycho film. Like Trump, Bateman could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and get away with it. American Psycho is at the Almeida theatre, London, to 14 March.