Sankari_Suomi Largely ignored 2013 remake of the little known 1978 Australian psychological thriller! This awkward, self-conscious homage to the original is made even worse by inconsistent acting and the clumsy overuse of not-particularly-good CGI. Walter Dance was somehow roped into a lead role (possibly via blackmail) but not even his commanding presence can mask the appalling stench of this dunger.Shot in a controversial colour palette of teal and brown, Patrick features a Pino Donaggio score, a half-written script, Walter Dance eating a frog, and more B-grade horror tropes than you can throw a dog at.Best line: 'You are a prissy, meddling little bitch who's wasting my precious time, and I would dearly love you to **** off!' Worst line: 'Patrick wants his hand job!'I rate Patrick at 9.99 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a shocking 3/10 on IMDb.

Michael_Elliott Patrick (2013) ** (out of 4) A nurse (Shami Vinson) begins a new job and one of her duties is to look after Patrick, a young man in a coma. Soon the nurse begins to think that Patrick is trying to communicate with her and before long she realizes that it's something much worse.The 1978 Australian film PATRICK turned 25-years-old and how did they celebrate it? Why, of course, they made a rather bland remake! I actually watched this remake back-to-back with the original, which is something I rarely do. There's really not too many original things on display here as this is one of those remakes that amps up the violence and gore and also throws in a lot more bad jump scares.In my review of the original film I said it was a tad bit too slow at times and ran too long. This remake tries to fix both of those problems but the non-stop dream sequences and fake jump scares were just annoying and got very boring after a while. Another problem with this remake is that the relationship between the nurse and Patrick just never feels all that believable. In the original film it helped sell the story but that's not the case here.The performances are quite good with Vinson, Rachel Griffiths and Damon Gameau doing a nice job. Charles Dance is also good in his role. Jackson Gallagher isn't really given much to do except sit around looking cute. He certainly doesn't have the same impact as the actor in the original film but I will put the blame on the filmmakers.PATRICK isn't an awful movie but it is quite pointless.

ElWormo One of the hammiest newer horrors I've seen in a while, in fact the actor who plays the feebly menacing doctor/love interest 'Brian' should have a statue made out of ham just for his performance of 100% cardboard.This movie might also deserve an award for most jump scare attempts in a horror, to the point where it seems like every time a door randomly opens/closes its accompanied by that whooshing bang sound. None of these attempts really work.There are tons of moments in Patrick that are clearly tailored just for that woeful kind of en masse 'cinema reaction', where everyone either laughs, jumps, or goes ewwww. Worst example being some horribly crude attempts at humour in the script, plus the addition of a 'hilarious' (not) comedy character, an old guy obsessed with clocks and a lighthouse. What was he even for? Like so many horrors, the part of the movie that's supposed to be the most exciting (the last third/climax) is actually the most boring. The opening half hour was easily more engrossing. Another problem is too much CGI. Sometimes the entire room/situation a character was in looked like it was entirely CGI. A certain car scene looked more like a video game...And to cap it off we have Charles Dance, playing the part of Charles Dance.Despite all this and more problems I can't be bothered to elaborate on, Patrick somehow manages to be okay (just) thanks to some snappy directing and a story that never actually drags. Overall a middling popcorn horror affair, for people that are probably more interested in their popcorn than what they're watching.

TheMarwood Patrick attempts to have more jolts per minute than any film ever, yet doesn't stick a single jump scare. Bathed in atmosphere, this very well shot throwback to 40s and 50s mad scientist horror, feels like a lost Hammer horror relic. Kathy, well played by Sharni Vinson, takes a job as a nurse in a house of horrors that's doing research on comatose patients. It's not before long that the evil comatose Patrick begins communicating with her with his psychic powers and she gets pulled further into this silly story with a mad scientist - a head nurse who is so serious she could only be employed in this place and medical research that usually involves creeping around spooky settings and angrily applying electro-shock. Half baked love interest subplot for Kathy and an ex of hers, is totally extraneous. Patrick is a fun film that pulls out every horror filmmaking trick in the book and while it's never scary for a moment, it's a solid genre effort.