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PATRICK

1978 AU HMDB
October 1, 1978

A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.

Directors

Richard Franklin

Cast

Robert Thompson, Susan Penhaligon, María Mercedes, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar, Helen Hemingway, Bruce Barry, Julia Blake, Carole-Ann Aylett, Walter Pym
Horror Thriller Fantascienza

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A young nurse is assigned to care for a patient considered irrecoverable: it's Patrick, a young man in a deep coma following the trauma of his parents' death, which he himself caused. The woman manages to improve the patient's condition and immediately envies arise towards her; but whoever takes it out on the young nurse meets a bad end. Surprise ending. Discreet Australian horror, directed with a steady hand and well acted. Few blood scenes and an ending that, according to the director's intentions, was meant to be a surprise, but the more perceptive will guess it already halfway through the film.