This film goes to show you the mental strain a workplace environment can cause, which leads to, you know, murder and stuff. But are the murderous activities in the film fact or fiction? The film opens in what appears to be a grounded reality before descending into the outright absurd, giving way to an ATM demanding to be fed a kitten and a wild killing spree. Most people would say that it's all in Bateman's head, although the films director says otherwise. There's no doubting that Bateman (played by Christian Bale) is disconnected from reality -- this is very apparent from his morning routine scene -- and the reason the ending of the film is so absurd is because of Bateman's disconnect from reality. Bateman is a killer, but not the homicidal killer he thinks he is; he's just another normal guy in a sea of other uncaring American psychos, such as he. By the film's close (and in a nod to Jean-Paul Satre's play No Exit), Bateman is trapped in his own personal hell and receives "no catharsis" because he requires the recognition of the other yuppies to affirm his identity of being a murderer. The film is a suave satire that associates materialism, misogyny, narcissism, and classism in the same hand as homicide, and Christian Bale is both horrifying and hilarious as Patrick Bateman.

Honorable Mention: Robocop

I was hesitant to add a film about cops to the list because cops die in a lot of films, and the possibility of death is just part of the job description. But, hands down, the best scene of workplace murder for me is ED-209's malfunction in the OCP boardroom in Paul Verhoeven's Robocop: