Patrick (Special Edition)
He's in a coma... Yet, he can kill...
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 28, 2008
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Synapse Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Susan Penhaligon & Rod Mullinar | |
Performer: | Robert Helpmann & Julia Blake | |
Directed by | Richard Franklin | |
Composition by | Brian May |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Tepid little chiller -- like a horror version of Tommy.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
One of Australia's commercially successful genre films of the 70s, a supernatural thriller
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 2.5/5 --
D.o.a.
Filmcritic.com
It is a film that resists visceral shocks, favoring the horror of its psychology. A shame, for its psychology is only slightly horrific.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Richard Franklin's thriller injects medical ethics with a psychosexual cocktail.
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VODzilla.co
The end result is a dull product that has no identity and whose only real appeal is its special effects. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 4/5 --
Director Richard Franklin [...] eventually lets Patrick's powers go haywire, but the first half of the film combines sinister atmosphere-building with a justified faith that an immobile killer is still an ever-present threat.
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The Dissolve
Description by OLDIES.com:
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, Patrick lays comatose in a private hospital. When a pretty young nurse (Susan Penhaligon) begins working at the hospital, Patrick tries communicating with her, while others in her life are being hurt and killed in mysterious ways.
Product Description:
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, a comatose patient named Patrick uses his psychokinetic powers to terrorize the staff of the hospital in which he is confined. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins working at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is trying to communicate with her, while others are being killed in the cruelest ways. What is Patrick's secret' An incredibly creepy ending helped to insure this film its cult classic status.
Description by Ryko Distribution:
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, Patrick lays comatose in a private hospital. When a pretty young nurse begins working at the hospital, Patrick tries communicating with her, while others in her life are being hurt and killed in mysterious ways. PATRICK is a classic supernatural thriller from Australia; directed with amazing style by Richard Franklin (F/X 2, PSYCHO II), this unsettling film of telekinetic terror "- would give CARRIE a run for her money." (TV GUIDE). The DVD contains a new, anamorphic transfer of the original uncut Australian version in widescreen and digital sound.
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Product Info
- UPC: 654930308097
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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