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Sadly Over-hyped

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Due to the fact that it was on Netflix I happened to watch the 2013 remake of this film before this one and I'm glad I did, because at doesn't hold a candle to the original. Had I seen this one first, doubtless I would have been highly disappointed in the remake; but as it stands Patrick: Evil Awakens is a guilty pleasure and Patrick simply a pleasure. First off, the dialogue is hilarious, in a tongue-in- cheek way, especially the much lauded 'hiring scene'. It seems like something straight out of a John Waters film. The cinematography and sets are surprisingly decent for an Australian horror film and the hospital is in a gorgeous little mansion, the interior is reminiscent of the house in Psycho. It can be a bit silly and/or tacky but I think this works in the film's favour. For the most part this film is a slow burn and I can't help but feel that the writer's and director's aspirations exceeded that which they had either the skill or budget to create. Regardless it's enjoyable and one which i'll be watching over again, probably paired with Evil Awakens.

This movie is very slow burner, it's take time to build up creepy feel to the movie,Patrick sure did look really creepy and very scary at times even without moving! I loved all the strange things he was doing to the others people in the movie, I thought was really good effect for the time. I loved the way the movie ended, in one of the last scenes of the movie, I didn't see that coming but it did make Jump from my Chair. Great story, Great effects and great acting from the whole castLooked at trailer for remake, Guy who playing Pat dose not look as scary and looks two young that this part.!

Patrick is a 1978 horror film made in Australia about a guy who falls into a coma and communicates with a nurse- and it's about as dull as Psychic killer movies can get. This movie gets a couple extra stars from me because of it's decent writing and mature mood, but the movie is far too boring to get any better of a rating than a 3 from me. Seriously, almost nothing at all happens in this movie. Most of it is just the guy writing things on the nurse's typewriter using...his mind! Ooh, how horrifying! Other than (SPOILERS!) the couple dying at the beginning, and a nurse being fried(which we don't actually get to see), not much happens. A guy almost drowns in a swimming pool, another guy burns his hands on a crock pot, and a nurse passes out. Pretty much an uneventful film. At one point, Patrick actually wakes up and turns his head. I was hoping that maybe that would mean we were over the whole "lying in a bed" part of the movie, but nope, the next scene he's in, he's right back in his coma. Explain that one. Now, I don't want to sound like some modern horror movie fan with no appreciation for the "less is more" classics, but if you want to have an effective horror movie, you at least have to show us SOMETHING throughout your film! Anyway, Patrick is a horror movie that just never really took off. The DVD cover lied. It was not "extrememly bloody" like the review clip on the front said, and the synopsis is wrong. People in the nurse's life do not begin to get killed in mysterious ways. It's a movie that gives the viewer almost nothing throughout, and does almost nothing.

Following the success of Brian De Palma's 'Carrie' in 1976, movies featuring psycho-kinetics became all the rage. In 1978, Hollywood cashed in with 'The Fury' (also by De Palma) and the Richard Burton vehicle 'The Medusa Touch'; US TV gave us 'The Initiation of Sarah'; and even Disney got in on the act with 'Return from Witch Mountain'. Meanwhile, in Australia, director Richard Franklin joined in the craze with his creepy, offbeat chiller 'Patrick'.Susan Penhaligon stars as Kathy Jacquard, a pretty nurse who discovers that her new comatose patient Patrick (Robert Thompson) is not only capable of communicating via psychokinesis (and the occasional bit of spitting!), but is also able to kill. As Patrick gradually begins to fall for Kathy, any other man hoping to get close to her automatically becomes a target of his awesome mental powers.To feature a malign character who spends 99.9% of the film's running time absolutely motionless, staring into space, is an unusual, but very effective idea, and one that director Franklin cleverly uses to crank up the tension: his audience know damn well that Patrick will move at some point in the film, but have absolutely no idea when it will occur (I jumped twice: first, when Patrick unexpectedly spits at his nurse, and... well... you'll definitely know the other moment when it happens).There are those who may find the slow-burn approach of this movie a little laborious, but I loved its leisurely approach—particularly as it gave me time to fully appreciate the movie's more bizarre moments: Kathy's job interview, during which the hospital's Matron mentions that such a job attracts certain 'types' (lesbians, scoptophiliacs, necrophiliacs, zoophiliacs and enema specialists!!); two scenes in which frogs don't do so well (one has his brain smushed with a needle and another is eaten by a doctor); Kathy attempting to prove that Patrick can feel by giving him a little 'wrist action'; and repeated appearances by Patrick's 'neighbour', a crazy old man who wets himself.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.