White Night, American Psycho, and Economic Inequality, the Killer Who Devours America

I got to thinking about how Mary Harron's cinematic version of American Psycho is so clearly a horror film that is purely an allegory for the nature of the American economy, as I played through White Night for the last week or so. To me, the plot of White Night is clearly less interested in the literal ghost story that the player is investigating in the game than it is in the manner in which that story parallels issues of economic inequality following the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

The true American serial killer, according to White Night, is the "economic royalist" that FDR warned about in his 1936 speech at the Democratic National Convention.

White Night, American Psycho, and Economic Inequality, the Killer Who Devours America