Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Michael_Elliott Patrick (1978) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Kathy (Susan Penhaligon) gets a new job working at a hospital as a nurse where her main duties are looking after a man named Patrick (Robert Thompson). The young man has been in a coma for three years but soon Kathy begins to think that he has some sort of psychic powers that allows him to stalk her and do much worse.PATRICK came from Australia and was one of the biggest hits of the Ozploitation era. If you're a fan of Hitchcock then Richard Franklin's film is an obvious homage to the Master of Suspense and it's worth noting that the director would go on to make PSYCHO II. I'm a little surprised that this film became such a hit when it was originally released because it lacks most of what made something like CARRIE so good.On a technical level the film is quite impressive as Franklin certainly makes a film that looks quite good. The cinematography is extremely good and the music score by Brian May is catchy. I also thought the performances were extremely good with Penhaligon doing an excellent job in the role of the nurse. I really thought she was tremendous in the film and she certainly helps keep you interested in what's going on. The supporting cast members are all good including Thompson who is quite memorable even though he doesn't say a word or move.What keeps the film from being better is the fact that it clocks in at 112 minutes and there's really not too much that happens. I really don't mind the slow pace but I certainly wish the film had been cut down a little or at least given a bit more to do. With that said, the lack of any real horror moments keeps the film from being better but PATRICK is still worth viewing.

Mark Honhorst 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.

claudialora As others have commented, this film is a bit of a love story that delves into the area of psychic phemonena, in particular psychokinesis and, though it isn't overtly expressed, astral projection.The title character, Patrick, is a patient in a private, long-term care facility. He's been in a seemingly irreversible vegetative state for three years, the result of psychological trauma experienced after the murder of his mother and her lover. Kathy is a new nurse at the facility who's main responsibility is the care of Patrick. She refuses to accept that he is unaware of his surroundings and repeatedly attempts to communicate with him. Spending long periods of time at his bedside she develops a bond with him, and it is soon revealed that he develops an even stronger bond with her.The well-written story progresses very slowly but the performances are quite strong. There was not much "action" in this film, nor were there many special effects...yet as a psychodrama I suppose they weren't necessary. I found this film to be riveting. It easily drew me in, despite the lack of thrills one would expect in horror films. I was disappointed that there weren't many surprises, although truth be told as the film drew to its close there was one scene that was eerily unsettling and another scene where I literally jumped out of my skin (and that does not happen often). So all-in-all I enjoyed this movie.I've been an avid fan of horror films for over 30 years, yet somehow I'd never heard of this one until a few days ago. I particularly enjoy films that do not rely on graphic violence, nudity and the use of four-letter words. In such films the writing, acting and directing is what categorizes them as great or awful. Though this film isn't one of the greats, it's not one of the worst films ever made either. I'm glad that I came across it, and I recommend it to any fan of horror.

Paul Andrews Patrick starts with Patrick (Robert Thompson) himself killing his Mom (Carole Ann-Aylett) & her lover (Paul Young) by throwing an electric fire into their bathtub. Three years later & nurse Kathy Jacquard (Susan Penhaligon) has just separated form her husband Ed (Rod Mullinar) & is looking to get back into nursing after a two year absence. Kathy applies for a job at the 'Roget Clinic' where after a tough interview with Matron Cassidy (Julia Blake) she is given a job by Dr. Roget (Robert Helpmann) himself & the responsibility of looking after the comatose patient in room 15, who just happens to be Patrick. Patrick has been a patient at the Roget Clinic for three years ever since he witnessed his Mother & her lover being killed in an 'accident' according to the police anyway. He never speaks, moves or has any traceable brain activity at all. Kathy quickly befriends Sister Paula Williams (Helen Hemmingway) but Matron Cassidy isn't keen on her. As Kathy talks with Sister Williams in front of Patrick about her personal life & thoughts strange things start to happen. A neurosurgeon named Brian Wright (Bruce Barry) mysteriously almost drowns in his swimming pool after coming on to Kathy, Kathy's flat is vandalised, Kathy's ex Ed burns his hands after making her a casserole, her typewriter starts to write on it's own & Patrick starts to communicate with her by making a spitting noise. Kathy is convinced that Patrick has telepathic powers which he has developed over the three years he has been confined to a hospital bed, Kathy starts to believe that Patrick has discovered a sort of sixth sense apparently. Patrick starts to affect Kathy's personal life & communicates to her that he feels someone is trying to kill him...This Australian production was directed by Richard Franklin & almost put me in a coma, Patrick isn't really a horror in my opinion it's more of a thriller. The script by Everett De Roche is so slow & uneventful it's untrue, I am not over exaggerating when I say Patrick is one of the dullest films I've seen in ages. It's a shame because the premise & ideas here are good but after over an hour of virtually nothing happening my patience was being tested to the limit. There is a grand total of one death in Patrick after the opening sequence. There are very few characters in Patrick & since their all bland & forgettable they didn't help to maintain my flagging interest, their not developed at all either. We know nothing about Patrick apart from the opening scene & that he spends all day in a bed. We know nothing about Sister Williams who is there just to provide a friend for Kathy to talk to about her feelings & in turn giving director Franklin an easy & lazy way to let us, the viewer, know as well. Matron Cassidy's motives for her disliking of Patrick isn't touched upon more than a sentence about her not liking the air in his room & a speech about medical science prolonging life when it perhaps shouldn't. I could go on & on about how flimsy Patrick's characters are. It also starts to go into Patrick's previous nurse who also suffered in the same way Kathy is but again this is given one sentence & then totally forgotten about. Franklin seems to think showing Patrick telepathically typing on a typewriter is scary & interesting, it isn't mate. There is very little I can comment on as literary nothing happens other than Patrick typing some letters out & an awful lot of dull chit-chat between dull characters. When Patrick eventually starts to use his powers for something that resembles menace the film ends. I'm almost falling asleep just thinking about it! There is no blood or gore whatsoever & a grand total of one burned corpse. The acting is average at best but no-one embarrasses themselves too much. Director Franklin manages to create a few stylish sequences, the opening pre-credits scene in particular, but they are all but lost amongst the mountain of boring, flat, pointless & unimaginative time wasting nonsense that comprise most of Patrick's near 110 minute running time. Patrick would have been a lot better if it had a much tighter pace & a couple of murders, I mean someone being trapped in a lift for a few days just isn't that scary or memorable is it? Basically just think of Patrick as the worst Carrie (1976) rip-off you can imagine & your not far off the mark. So I'll give it a couple of stars because the central idea is good & one because generally speaking it's competently made throughout with one or two nice touches here & there. I still pretty much hated it though & I really am falling asleep just thinking about it...