
“A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?”
That’s the great monologue that introduces Sean Bateman, the central character in the grievously under-appreciated adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ The Rules of Attraction. Turns out March 8th is James Van Der Beek’s birthday, which provides a convenient excuse to embed videos celebrating one of the best movies ever made.
Sadly, it seems the few people who’ve actually produced exceptional Rules of Attraction videos have globally opted to disable embedding. Godless fuckheads. Ah well, this one is a beautifully edited compilation set to Portishead’s Magic Doors. This yields the only thing missing from Roger Avary’s film – an appearance by Sean’s older brother. And finally, this one offers an abbreviated, yet still dope, version of the same American Psycho crossover.
























