Shark City seems the perfect name for one of the film’s locations. This is now virtually unrecognisable after being converted into Jazz Bistro, 251 Victoria Street, off Dundas Street West, almost facing the Ed Mirvish Theatre. ‘Smith and Wollensky’ is a real enough New York restaurant – you can see it on-screen in The Devil Wears Prada, but the restaurant where Bateman squirms through an edgy lunch with Det Kimball ( Willem Dafoe) was Toronto's Savoy Restaurant. Up toward Cabbagetown is the Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne Street, now a nightclub and live music venue, which was used as the ‘Studio 54’-style dance club, where the none-too-bright yuppies consider, between nosefuls of coke, whether dyslexia may be caused by a virus. Serial killer aficionados will recognise that the quote attributed to the notorious Ed Gein (inspiration for both Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) was actually from the slightly less-famous 'Co-ed Killer' Ed Kemper. This elegant bar has barely changed, apart from being dominated by a huge portrait of Queen Alexandra (wife of King Edward VII, and hence Consort). The comfortable-looking gentlemen’s club, where Bateman’s quote from Ed Gein goes unrecognised (“Isn’t he maitre d’ at Canal Bar?”), and Luis Carruthers ( Matt Ross) comes close to extinction when he flashes his unmatchable new business card, is the Consort Bar of the prestigious 1903 Omni King Edward Hotel, 37 King Street East. There's a quick Second Unit shot of the exterior of Paul Allen's apartment block – which Bateman enviously notes has a park view – which is 2 East 88th Street at Fifth Avenue, alongside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.Īmerican Psycho: Carruthers has a close call when he misinterprets Bateman's intentions: Consort Bar, King Edward Hotel, King Street East, Toronto It’s now part of The Ballroom, a bowling alley-leisure-bar complex. The wood-beamed, Western-themed restaurant was Montana, which stood at 145 John Street at Richmond Street West. You'll recognise this as the spot where Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopi Goldberg) donated four million dollars to “a bunch o'nuns” in 1990's Ghost.īateman tries, and fails, to impress Paul Allen ( Jared Leto) by getting a seat at the near-empty ‘Texarkana’. There's another glimpse of New York as Bateman leaves his place of work, walking past the statue of George Washington in front of Federal Hall, Wall Street at Nassau Street in the Financial District. In fact, since many of the bars and restaurants were necessarily cutting-edge, it's not surprising that since 2000, several have closed or moved on. The premises now houses Michael's On Simcoe steak house. The slightly kitschy Pacific Rim restaurant was actually Monsoon, 100 Simcoe Street at Adelaide Street West in Toronto. It’s not only Courtney who’s being fobbed off. American Psycho location: Patrick Bateman passes off ‘Barcadia’ as the fabled ‘Dorsia’: Michael's On Simcoe, Simcoe Street, Toronto
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