Usually, Christian Bale only pretends when he's going American psycho, but he really did lose it in London where he just assaulted his mom and sister. Everybody says, "WTF?", but I say that we've seen this coming for a while. Stud or not, about 99% of Bale's filmography is 110% moving-to-another-car-on-the-subway-now cuckoo. He's been a ticking time bomb of WTF psychosis from the start.

  • 'Newsies' (1992) - Uh, "look at me, I'm the king of New York"? Obvious delusions of grandeur, megalomania with clear intent to conquer, and a suspender fetish all in a musical den of homoeroticism.



  • 'Mary, Mother of Jesus' (1999) - Pretends he's Jesus Christ. Major God Complex. Also! Oedipal undertones, martyr syndrome ... possibly infected with lime disease.

  • 'Empire of the Sun' (1987) - Speaking of a well-meaning but still crazy as balls Jesus complex, here's one triggered by post-traumatic stress and a "go-into-the-light" musical score.

  • 'Rescue Dawn' (2006) - If he isn't hallucinating the flashback in this clip, he sounds like he's prepared to do nothing but hallucinate once he escapes. It's an implied commitment to future park benches, tin foil and clutching tiny, don't-F-with-me knives.

  • 'The Machinist' (2004) - Paranoia, insomnia, looking really gross ... Bale starved himself on apples to play this role and in every scene succeeds at looking like a really bummed out skeleton.

  • 'American Psycho' (2000) - The exception to the rule because nothing wrong here. Totally sane and very dateable.

But generally, a BATTY dude. HA.