American Psycho

Book • 1991 • Horror  

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Does the dog die?
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there are multiple scenes of patrick killing dogs
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Are there abusive parents?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Does a major character die?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Abandonment
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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A child is murdered.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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not alcohol abuse, but alcohol is frequently consumed and discussed
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cocaine specifically, brief mentions of weed
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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mice/rats
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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there are many dead animals, patrick frequently kills and tortures animals
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there spiders?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Maggots
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone restrained?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Bodily Harm
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literally patrick’s first kill of the book involves some pretty brutal eye mutilation and it happens a few other times throughout
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The book has much more explicit descriptions of violence and gore much more so than the movie does. Some of which go on for more than one page.
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Is someone tortured?
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patrick inflicts genital trauma upon the escorts he hires, chapters titled “girls” tend to contain this most
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Is there body horror?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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there is a scene where patrick takes a drill to a girl’s mouth and she closes her mouth to stop it and it goes through her teeth, there may be others but that’s the one i remember
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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towards the end of the book, it’s mentioned that patrick eats the brain of one of his victims and tried to make food out of her body
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is someone choked?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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there is a chapter where patrick kills a child at the zoo, the chapter is titled very explicitly along the lines of “killing child at zoo”
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Is an infant abducted?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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A few dogs die and almost a cat
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Does someone die?
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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This is a book
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A woman's son is killed
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Does someone cheat?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Can someone give a chapter or something
clownish
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there defecation?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there farting?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there misophonia?
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Patrick Bateman the main character is a psychopathic serial killer who violently beats, tortures, rapes and kills his victim in the most gruesome ways.
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A character says they want to kill themselves or be killed in response to being brutally rejected by the main character/narrator
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The whole book is based mainly on the fact that Patrick isn't fully aware of his reality. In fact, the end of the book is interpretation.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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patrick is mentioned to be having panic attacks or something very similar multiple times
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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This is a book
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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patrick and his friends frequently use crude language, both in casual conversation and directed in a hurtful way to others
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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there are no explicit abortions but they are mentioned in passing a few times, such as being a subject of the show patrick watches in the mornings
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Prejudice
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f slur and d slur throughout, unavoidable
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Are there fat jokes?
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not technically jokes, but lots of body shaming from male characters
calibo
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one of the movies patrick discusses is called "S**male Reformatory"
calibo
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christmas party scene with elves played by people with dwarfism, lots of ableist comments from bateman.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Is there hate speech?
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of every kind imaginable: racism against every race, homophobia, transphobia, classism, sexism, fatphobia, ableism
calibo
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POC and gay people are misrepresented frequently, unsure about transgender people.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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The first person to die in-book is a black homeless man. It is implied there have been other victims however.
JessWeston
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Basically every woman mentioned is objectified
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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lots of homeless characters throughout; unavoidable. almost all of them are ridiculed; several are killed
calibo
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Spoiler
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Ending is unspecified but nobody should feel bad for Patrick regardless.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
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Chapter 46
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Does a car crash?
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Chapter 46
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Does a plane crash?
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C35
Several on the news
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Chapter 46
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Many, many, many descriptions of blood and gore throughout the novel.
j_co
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Does someone drown?
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A dog
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Is there gun violence?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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