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  Review by Ian West ★★★½ 3

  Atmospheric Australian psychokinesis jam with an emphasis on slow burn, burns a leeeetle too long for me but never the less i can’t deny Franklin and his Hitchcockian quirks. 

  Bucket of frogs.

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½ 9

  Alright, I'll be honest. I only watched Patrick so I could get to its unofficial Italian sleazoid sequel. I ended up having a really great time with this one however. It's a nice Australian telekinetic thriller. The movie's on the slower side but it's never dull. It reminded me of Aenigma, which is such an underappreciated Fulci movie.

  I will definitely search out Richard Franklin's other movies.

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  Review by braden ★★★ 6

  “Doctor, it’s Patrick. You know it’s him, don’t you?”
  
  Richard Franklin’s Patrick is a decent enough ozploitation horror about a comatose man attacking and killing people via telekinetic powers. It’s concept is less ridiculous than it sounds in practice, offering a creepy story that makes for a few cool and creative scenes, although drags a fair bit to get there and definitely runs far longer than it really needs to. It’s nothing spectacular by any means but I just love weird or low budget type Australian movies, and it was a nice, painless watch to take my mind off going into lockdown again.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 1

  An entitled misogynist abuses and stalks a woman, and the men around her disbelieve her until many people have died because of it. The fact that the misogynist is in a coma is the only thing about this that's unrealistic.

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  Review by Tony the Terror ★★★★★ 11

  A few days ago I was carrying on about how much I adore 80's horror films. Well, you know what I like equally as much? 70's horror films! I like 60's horror as well but I'll save that for another review. Warning: I'm going to give a quick history lesson because I love horror history. Any other history I really can't tell you crap about so just give me half a GD minute to shine in pretty much the only area I can.

  Vietnam, Nixon, civil rights. These events caused the free spirited 60's to give way to a darker decade and with that, gothic horror gave birth to a more shocking and boundary-pushing breed of horror known as "exploitation"…

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★½ 4

  "A born devil, on whose nature, nurture can never stick," -Dr. Roget.

  -Hooptober 5.0 (Film 23 of 33): boxd.it/23f1e

  Patrick has under 1,000 watches and that is really crazy to me because this is a great horror film. The movie is 112 minutes so people that don't like a slower paced film should avoid or wait for the right time, but to me this film was suspenseful and I was never bored.

  I discovered Patrick while watching a documentary called Not Quite Hollywood (https://boxd.it/vASex) about Australia's genre film-making scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. It was one of Quentin Tarantino's favorites and he copies some of the scenes during Kill Bill Vol. 1.

  Patrick is a comatose patient in a…

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  Review by bummer_buddy ★★★½

  This was so much fun and hit the exact nerve of horror I was looking for--Cranky, telekinetic disabled folks murdering ablest doctors for both their entertainment and mine! Aussie horror rarely disappoints!

  [OkGOREberfest 2024, Day 26/#51]

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  Review by WraithApe ★★★½ 17

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  Review by The Horror of Marna Larsen ★★ 5

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½

  all of Franklin's genius framing (see for instance an early shot with the title character's mother and her lover reflected in the metal ball of a bedpost) can't make up for the fact that nobody making this seems to have noticed that it desperately wants to be about a young woman extricating herself from a succession of controlling, abusive men.

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  Review by 💀EmperorCupcake🧁 ★★★½

  July Horror 2020 #25 - Australian horror

  It's the quirky, feel good romcom of 1978! She's a nurse, he's a psycho in a coma! Will true love prevail?

  I'm not sure what's scarier, the brutal opening murder or the world's worst job interview that follows. Yikes! I'd rather hang with ol' spooky staring eyeballs Patrick than that hatchet faced biotch. Actually no, if I was nurse whatsername I wouldn't hang with anyone in this movie. What a bunch of creeps!

  Worth a watch if you're up for a slow burn after the initial bang. I might give this a 4 if it was like, 10 minutes shorter. I love the idea behind it and it's executed pretty well, but it does drag in spots. This is by the director of Psycho II and he perfected the psycho story there, but this definitely shows flashes of the greatness to come.