Books.
A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city.
Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a defense of freedom of speech and a critique of the likeability factor that can impede it.
Twenty-five years have passed since the events of "Less Than Zero." Clay Easton, now a successful screenwriter, returns to L.A. where he's helping to cast his latest movie. But the more things have changed, the more they stay the same, and Clay is soon drifting around in his familiar old circle.
Ellis's two short stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angeles residents, all of them suffering from nothing less that death of the soul.
Ellis takes first-person narrative to an extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from the publishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famous writer living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and son and reconcile his damaged past.
A young man in celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable.
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a murderous psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.
Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city harbors a group of people trapped between the beauty of their surroundings and their own moral impoverishment. This novel is a chronicle of their voices.
Paul wants Sean but settles for Richard. Sean only has eyes for Lauren who pines for absent Victor. Ellis trains his gaze on the students at self-consciously bohemian Camden College. He treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and genuine compassion, while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.
Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. Where else can Clay go but down?
Movies.
Handsome young soccer player Jake Graham believes he is going insane, unable to shake the feeling of being stalked by something, by someone.
A teen angst thriller at a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year. Story follows a senior, Chrissie, who is skeptical, and another, Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim.
When Christian, an LA trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between Tara and the lead of his film project, Ryan, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.
One week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Television.
The disappearance of three seemingly unconnected people from Los Angeles triggers a collective paranoia among a group of twenty-something-year-olds, all of whom escaped from a cult several years back.
Shorts.
“The Arrangement” captures jealousy and obsession. A utopia is still a possibility, and the purity of love is still an option. The short movie is exploring this idea by juxtaposing the elegance of the characters world with the turmoil and dreamy confusion they are experiencing.
The myth of Orpheus, set in the music industry, in a hellish version of Los Angeles.
When an opera singer loses his voice, he goes through a night of decadence.
A sneak peek behind the scenes of the new CW show, "All That Glitters," from acclaimed writer of "American Psycho," Bret Easton Ellis. "All That Glitters" takes us into the lives of the hot, young, sexy and rich crowd that struggles with everyday life.