
He drugs their wine and gets them to make out.
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Just as they are about to leave, he opens a drawer full of sharp tools, takes out a coat-hanger, and growls "We're not finished yet." The prostitutes are bruised and bleeding by the time he lets them leave.Ī few days later, he picks up one of the same two prostitutes, phones up a lady friend of his, and brings them to Paul Allen's apartment. Later, he picks up two prostitutes, giving them his name as Paul Allen, brings them to his apartment, and has sex with both of them, while videotaping it. He then disposes of the body, breaks into Allen's apartment, packs his clothes into a suitcase, and rerecords the answering machine's greeting to say that Allen has left for London.

He lures him to his apartment, where Bateman kills him with an axe because he was handling an account that Bateman wanted. His murders involve brutal and often complicated torture at one point, he forcibly inserts a Habitrail into a woman's vaginal tract (which he loosened with acid) and lets an oversized rat loose in it so it will literally devour her from the inside out.Īt one point, he met Paul Allen, who works at another firm. At one point in the novel, he kills a child just to see if he will enjoy it (he does not). His father is long dead and his mother resides in a sanitarium, and his younger brother Sean (the anti-hero of Ellis' 1987 novel The Rules of Attraction) attends Camden College in New Hampshire.īateman is a stockbroker at Pierce & Pierce, but does little actual work, instead spending his time going to trendy restaurants, bars and clubs, using cocaine and picking up prostitutes-many of whom end up being his victims.īateman kills men and women, the latter for sadistic sexual pleasure and the former because they anger him and make him feel inferior. Patrick Bateman was born in Long Island to wealthy parents, and lives in Manhattan's Upper West Side in an expensive and exclusive apartment Tom Cruise is one of his neighbors. In the audiobook, he is voiced by Pablo Schreiber, who also played William Lewis in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Pornstache in Orange is the New Black. Clever in Doctor Who, T-5000 in Terminator Genisys, Jack in Last Night in Soho and Milo Morbius in Morbius.

in Shaft and Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder in the West End musical adaptation, he was portrayed by Matt Smith, who also played Mr. In the 2000 film, he was portrayed by Christian Bale, who also played Walter Wade Jr.
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The very image of a yuppie, he is obsessed with his health, cleanliness, appearance, money, and music collection however, he has a darker side, as he is also a serial killer, rapist, cannibal, and necrophile. He is a businessman in the 1980s who lives in Manhattan and works at Wall Street. Patrick Bateman is the titular main protagonist of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 controversial novel American Psycho and its film and stage adaptations, as well as a posthumous antagonist in the metafictional mock memoir Lunar Park and a posthumous overarching antagonist in the non-canon sequel of the same name.
