Serial Killers interesting

"Why are you fascinated with famous Serial Killers, you must be sick". This is for everyone whom asked me this throughout my life. The reason I'm interested in famous Serial Killers, is because there are so few of them, and noone has discovered what really goes through their minds. Directors of slasher/horror movies (example: Silence of the Lambs) base characters after real specific people, and that makes this interesting because you don't think Hannibal and the guy from American Pyscho are characters based off real events.

Being interested in this stuff doesn't make me wanna do crime, why can't people just understand this

[QUOTE="Rhazakna"]Patrick Bateman was an exaggerated product of yuppie culture. I don't think he was based on anyone.pxr242

Seemed like he was based off Dahmer ALOT...with his horror house apartment, cooking the brains, and his Remorseful/Guilty side when his secretary comes over. He couldn't control his impulses, but he had a sane side

Maybe, but Ellis' whole point was the apathetic decadence of 80s culture. I personally didn't care for the book, but I have a hard time believing that a character in the middle of a transgressive satire was based off of anyone specific.

[spoiler] And it's not clear whether or not he really killed anyone. [/spoiler]