American Psycho: voice over inspiration

Mac 5 have decided to use a voice over in our two minute opening, as we feel that it is an uncommon feature in our genre, which we aim to challenge.
However, we chose to use this technique because psychological thrillers are often told in a first person narrative, leaving the audience in the dark to create suspension and we think this is particularly important if we want to keep our audience engaged.
We also think that this technique creates more intimacy between the film and the audience, which is something we would like to explore using both sound and visuals, to add to the uncomfortable atmosphere felt by the audience.

The introduction of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), near the very beginning of the film, is one of the few psychological thrillers which uses a voice over to present a character to the audience. Here is the clip:


We are currently on the search for the perfect voice, and we are using this clip to demonstrate what tone of voice to use, to create a similar feeling of oddity - we think that this ties in nicely with the disorientated character which is revealed to the audience, making the opening all the more sinister and perhaps more intriguing for the audience.