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Patrick
Directed by Richard Franklin1978112 minHorror
In a quiet Melbourne private clinic, a young nurse begins caring for a handsome young man who has lain in a coma for three years after murdering his mother and her lover, only to discover that Patrick is not only fully conscious but possesses terrifying telekinetic powers, and has fallen obsessively in love with her. Richard Franklin’s stylish Australian horror film builds slow-burn dread as the motionless patient begins communicating through a typewriter and using his mind to eliminate anyone who comes between them. One of the purest Hitchcockian directors of his generation (alongside Brian De Palma and Curtis Hanson), Franklin — a lifelong student of the Master of Suspense — crafts a cool, clinical nightmare of jealousy and psychic control that would directly lead to him directing Psycho II.
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In a quiet Melbourne private clinic, a young nurse begins caring for a handsome young man who has lain in a coma for three years after murdering his mother and her lover, only to discover that Patrick is not only fully conscious but possesses terrifying telekinetic powers, and has fallen obsessively in love with her. Richard Franklin’s stylish Australian horror film builds slow-burn dread as the motionless patient begins communicating through a typewriter and using his mind to eliminate anyone who comes between them. One of the purest Hitchcockian directors of his generation (alongside Brian De Palma and Curtis Hanson), Franklin — a lifelong student of the Master of Suspense — crafts a cool, clinical nightmare of jealousy and psychic control that would directly lead to him directing Psycho II.
- Director
- Richard Franklin
- Year
- 1978
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Horror