Patrick
ROD MULLINAR | SUSAN PENHALIGON | ROBERT HELPMANN |
Dir. Richard Franklin | 1978 | 110 minutes | Australia | (15) | Horror / Sci-Fi
Available on 35mm
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Patrick is left paralysed and apparently helpless. Although he is regarded as a vegetable by most of the hospital staff who would rather ‘switch him off’, one nurse becomes interested in his case and forms a bizarre friendship with him. This develops into a nightmarish dependence as Patrick unleashes telepathic powers that reach beyond the confines of his hospital bed. A spine-chiller which, like all good sci-fi, keeps you believing by cleverly meshing the possible with the fantastic.
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