A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
This movie contains 61 potentially triggering events.
The main character graphically stomps a homeless man's dog to death (somewhat from a distance, yelping is very audible). This is very upsetting and early in the film. The same character nearly shoots a cat, but does not.
(SPOILER WARNING BELOW)
It is later revealed that some events may not have actually happened, which would include the dog's death.
He brutally murders and dismembers prostitutes he's sleeping with, he is neglectful in all his relationships. There is no explicit domestic abuse, but the threat of him murdering his partners is there so err on the side of caution.
This is a complicated one due to the main character being confused and unaware of who he actually is but characters in the film call him by other names and say that he hasn't actually done stuff he vividly remembers doing, all of this is ambiguous due to his deteriorating mental state
No, but he has a cupboard full of tools he uses to murder people and there are belts or straps in there - it's not clear what it is though and we don't see him use it.
Most of the sex is consensual, but there's two scenes where the same hooker is bribed into sex with Bateman and other women for Bateman's pleasure. The second time, the hooker tries to walk away, but he lures her into his car with money.
two woman are drugged and then have sex with the main character. although they are sex workers, they are unwillingly drugged and thus cannot give proper consent
a character is killed by an ax to the head, their injuries aren't clearly shown onscreen but you see the ax swung and hear the impact, and the character that kills them is covered in their blood.
[SPOILERS, scene descriptions] There is a scene after Patrick has sex with two sex workers where he opens a drawer with knives and a wire coat hanger, and immediately after the sex workers are seen leaving his apartment limping and injured (what he did is left to the imagination). Towards the end of the movie, a journal is shown with explicit drawings of genital mutilation and torture, which was extremely triggering. I recommend looking away when [SPOILERS] the secretary sits to read the journal.
We see a drawer full of weapons and tools that is very disturbing and then we see two victims after being tortured. We see them physically and emotionally harmed and disturbed. We also see body parts and corpses repeatedly and the main character casually mentioning his violent acts. And we see his doodle drawings of his torture and violence in detail.
Patrick kills a sex worker by dropping a chainsaw on her from the top of a spiral staircase while she is trying to escape from him. Her body is seen from Patrick's perspective looking down as she bleeds out near the bottom of the steps.
Bateman is seen emptying an entire bottle of pills into his mouth towards the end of the movie. In the book we know this is Xanax, and he doesn't have any complications but it could still be potentially triggering or upsetting.
No, but a prostitute is lured into his car with money despite her resistance (the previous time he had hired her he abused her badly, she mentions having to go to the ER) so this might not be great for anyone with this trigger
While there are eerie and suspenseful scenes, there's never any instance of a sudden cut to a shocking image or a sudden loud noise. It all flows nicely into its horrid imagery.
Patrick shaves in the beginning scene and later we see many MANY knives and different types of blades, which he most likely uses in his killings. i’d be cautious if razors trigger you
YES but it is not explicitly shown on screen. He mentions eating some of his victims brains, and there is a sex scene where he emerges from under the covers with blood around his mouth, implying he at least bit the woman he was with. Another scene shows him aggressively biting a woman but he doesn’t eat her, at least not on screen.
no. a gay character misinterprets patricks attempted murder as a sexual advance and patrick is so grossed out by this that he doesnt kill him. so, homophobia but no outing
regardless of the end and what it might "change" in the events of the movie, the main character 100% has an antisocial personality disorder and is violent, has harmful behaviors and is depicted as a killer. (tw: he calls himself a "psychopath")
Not explicitly body dysmorphia, but Patrick is obsessed with his body and appearance. For example, when offered food by Jean, he says he’s on a diet, and when Jean expresses shock and tells Patrick he doesn’t need to lose weight, he replies “you can always look better. Be thinner.”
One sex worker is shown a bit traumatized by what Bateman did to her a few days prior, but it's never explicitly stated to be PTSD and she never has any panic attacks of the sort. She weary of Bateman and not wanting to be around him.
The camera is slightly shaky in some scenes where Bateman is running or chasing someone, but not enough to cause any harm to viewers. There's also a slight vertigo scene where a character is running down the stairs while the camera spins.
Yes, you can see christian bales ass very clearly multiple times, and there is a workout scene where he is wearing boxers and you can see his bulge which grossed out some people, and there are also multiple sex scenes. if you can’t handle nudity you’ll end up skipping A LOT of this movie
He says a prostituir is his cousin (she’s not) and drugs the prostituye and his friend and makes them smash to watch which isn’t really incest but just weird
Not only is a character homeless, he is also the first person to die onscreen, and the main character later claims to have killed 5-10 homeless people in total.
(SPOILER WARNING BELOW)
It is later revealed that some events may not have actually happened, which would include the dog's death.