American Psycho

Movie • 2000 • Horror  

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Does the dog die?
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mivaldi
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.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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batemanbytes
It's assumed so, it's not seen on screen. The main character tells a person of a different character's life in oddly specific detail.
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icallitjustice
He treats his fiance like trash. He treats the person he is dating (outside of his marriage) like trash.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Jethro
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
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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atthehuskinbee
One character is shown having drug withdrawals.
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atthehuskinbee
A character gets drunk, but that's about it.
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csbyron1
Explicit cocaine use
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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bye bye horsey
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
1,102 supporters
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lanie
This says other than a dog, cat, or horse - seek first question at top for answers about the dog scene and how to skip it
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Are animals abused?
1,530 supporters
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dog owned by homeless man stomped to death
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Yes
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Yes but not visible
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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batemanbytes
There is a scene where he almost kills a kitten but doesn't go through with it.
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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0
dragon deez NUTS on yo face
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Are there spiders?
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No 😂
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Kylogumii
Patrick puts drugs in a character's drink
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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Yes
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atthehuskinbee
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.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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9
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
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Bodily Harm
Are any hands damaged?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Yes
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There’s a decapitated head
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Is there cannibalism?
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kezyne
A character mentions doing so, but it's not shown on screen.
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Is there body horror?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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patrick tries to choke someone, but it doesn’t actually happen. he has his hands around his neck though.
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csbyron1
Bateman sets police cars on fire when the cops are shooting at him
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Is there amputation?
310 supporters
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aussiekanga
not sure why someon said no. there is a head in patrick's fridge
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PeachPidge
[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.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Anonymous
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.
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KamiSteele
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.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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3
One of the most well known scenes in the movie depicts Patrick Bateman repeatedly hitting someone with an axe, getting blood everywhere
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Is someone stabbed?
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Homeless guy is stabbed
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Sibelos
In the opening of the movie, we see Bateman shaving
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Does someone have a seizure?
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kyxnseo
near the end there's a scene where the main character is on the phone and seems like he's struggling to breathe because he's overwhelmed
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moviefanlover
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.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an infant abducted?
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35
Does a kid die?
644 supporters
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batemanbytes
Thankfully there are no children in this film.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
105 supporters
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Lots
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Disability
Yes
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4
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a family member die?
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Does someone cheat?
212 supporters
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OllyKI
Yes, multiple characters cheat.
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
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Are there razors?
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Are there jumpscares?
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batemanbytes
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.
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mauraleigha
In the opening of the movie, the main character is shown standing in the shower.
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Are there clowns?
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Howdybaby
Well Patrick Baynton is dure acting like one 🤡🤡🤡
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Are there mannequins?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
Is there farting?
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Does someone spit?
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Does someone vomit?
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aussiekanga
a main character gags but does not vomit.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is someone eaten?
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He talks about eating brains and he bites a girl her leg
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is there audio gore?
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mumrikmoth
Several times throughout the film, you can hear blood splatter and other disturbing sounds one might hear when well..committing a murder.
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Large-scale Violence
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shainutluvr
This movie was released in 2000 and is set in the 80s. Because of these dates, it's impossible for there to be any references or depictions of 9/11.
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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Is there copaganda?
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0
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67
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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0
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17
Yes
0
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5
Is there bisexual cheating?
140 supporters
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22
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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11
Medical
Does someone have cancer?
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Yes
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OllyKI
Medical instruments are shown briefly and imply malicious use, but no on-screen use is shown.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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atthehuskinbee
There is no hospital scene, but a character does mention how her friend had to be sent to the hospital because of how badly Bateman cut her up.
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Is there menstruation?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Mental Health
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Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Yes
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0
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diningatdorsia
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")
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Anonymous
It can be theorised that patrick bateman himself has autism but it's never actually discussed/mentioned.
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Patrick Bateman the main charac goes through a mental illness where he imagines killing people
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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csbyron1
Bateman tells a girl he is on a diet, and that he can "always be thinner." Just a passing comment, though
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1
Sort of????
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there misophonia?
238 supporters
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GwendolynCox
Bateman's voice might trigger it, kind of dry mouth ASMR-y
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Yes
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batemanbytes
While there aren't anxiety attacks there are still quite a few mental breakdowns.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Yes
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Anonymous
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.”
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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94
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
272 supporters
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No
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atthehuskinbee
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.
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Yes
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batemanbytes
In one scene while the main character and his friend are at a club, there are flashing lights. It lasts for a few seconds but they're there.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Yes
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No
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SiRenfield
There are bits of Patrick Bateman narrating but it’s not clear if he’s actually speaking to us directly
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Pregnancy
Are there abortions?
186 supporters
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1
No
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FriedNoodles
No, but there is a scene involving vaginal mutation which shows a coat hanger- this is visually reminiscent of a “coat hanger abortion”
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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45
Is there childbirth?
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78
Does someone miscarry?
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78
Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Is there hate speech?
417 supporters
Yes
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1
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mauraleigha
Homophobic slurs are used.
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csbyron1
First scene in the restaurant opens with this, character is called out on it though
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Is there aphobia?
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17
Are there n-words?
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77
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Yes
24
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4
Yes
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1
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GwendolynCox
F slur is used quite a few times in their business friends chats. Uncomfortable, but not used in a direct or violent homophobic attack
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Are there fat jokes?
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c4rr0th34d
while not super out there, multiple remarks on womens weight are made
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mooper
Look at the title of the movie.
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Yes
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DoritoPrincess
The first on-screen murder in the movie is Patrick Bateman killing a black homeless man and his dog.
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Yes
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mauraleigha
There is a scene in which someone nearly strangles a gay man, but does not go through with it.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Yes
0
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35
Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Yes
3
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Sex
Yes
54
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0
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redvyn
It's implied at several points that Patrick thinks of women as sexual objects.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Yes
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csbyron1
There are many sex scenes between Bateman and prostitutes, a prostitute and a model, Bateman and Courtney.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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737 supporters
Yes
7
No
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Howdybaby
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
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Is there bestiality?
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24
Is there BDSM?
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4
Sexism
Yes
0
No
33
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
111 supporters
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27
Does someone have a chronic illness?
119 supporters
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1
No
22
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Yes
1
No
22
Is someone terminally ill?
100 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Social
Is someone homeless?
99 supporters
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pancakess
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.
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Are there fat suits?
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20
Yes
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0
in a drawer, patrick pulls out a knife and a wire coat hanger which could be triggering
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Is existentialism debated?
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Spoiler
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DoritoPrincess
It’s uncertain, but whatever the case, the main character definitely isn’t happy by the end.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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76
Are there end credit scenes?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Yes
67
No
5
Does a car honk or tires screech?
126 supporters
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No
0
Is someone hit by a car?
180 supporters
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2
No
62
Does a plane crash?
126 supporters
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0
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76
Violence
Yes
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73
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batemanbytes
Not a nuclear explosion but there is an explosion at one point.
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Is there blood/gore?
546 supporters
Yes
137
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1
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sapphicstrodes
absofuckinglutely
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Does someone drown?
272 supporters
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78
Is there gun violence?
232 supporters
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92
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0
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deniallol
Moderately bloody shootings.
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