Does the dog die?
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American Psycho
Book • 1991 • Horror
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JaxMan03
there are multiple scenes of patrick killing dogs
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Is there domestic violence?
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JessWeston
A child is murdered.
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Addiction
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calibo
cocaine specifically, brief mentions of weed
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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calibo
not alcohol abuse, but alcohol is frequently consumed and discussed
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calibo
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Is there a dead animal?
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JaxMan03
there are many dead animals, patrick frequently kills and tortures animals
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Are there bugs?
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Anonymous
Maggots
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Assault
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Is there cannibalism?
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JaxMan03
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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Are any teeth damaged?
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JaxMan03
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 there genital trauma/mutilation?
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JaxMan03
patrick inflicts genital trauma upon the escorts he hires, chapters titled “girls” tend to contain this most
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Is there eye mutilation?
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JaxMan03
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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Is there excessive gore?
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j_co
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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Does a kid die?
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JaxMan03
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 someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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sp3xtkr
This is a book
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Does someone vomit?
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clownish
Can someone give a chapter or something
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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j_co
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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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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sp3xtkr
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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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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JessWeston
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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Are there anxiety attacks?
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JaxMan03
patrick is mentioned to be having panic attacks or something very similar multiple times
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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sp3xtkr
This is a book
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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JaxMan03
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
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Pregnancy
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Are there abortions?
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JaxMan03
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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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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calibo
not technically jokes, but lots of body shaming from male characters
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Does the black guy die first?
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JessWeston
The first person to die in-book is a black homeless man. It is implied there have been other victims however.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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sapphicstrodes
f slur and d slur throughout, unavoidable
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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calibo
one of the movies patrick discusses is called "S**male Reformatory"
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Is there hate speech?
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calibo
of every kind imaginable: racism against every race, homophobia, transphobia, classism, sexism, fatphobia, ableism
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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sp3xtkr
POC and gay people are misrepresented frequently, unsure about transgender people.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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calibo
christmas party scene with elves played by people with dwarfism, lots of ableist comments from bateman.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Basically every woman mentioned is objectified
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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calibo
lots of homeless characters throughout; unavoidable. almost all of them are ridiculed; several are killed
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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sp3xtkr
Ending is unspecified but nobody should feel bad for Patrick regardless.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Chapter 46
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Chapter 46
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Does a plane crash?
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Several on the news
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Anonymous
Chapter 46
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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j_co
Many, many, many descriptions of blood and gore throughout the novel.
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Does someone drown?
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Anonymous
A dog
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