Undescribable Perfection

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

In Patrick, nurse Susan Penhaligon's job description is just that. She's put in charge of the care of a comatose patient named Patrick who is surviving on life support. Terri Schiavo was hale and hearty next to him.But what the people in charge don't know, but Susan Penhaligon comes to suspect is that while Patrick's other senses are shutting down, he's developing that sixth sense, Extra Sensory Perception. Things start going bump in the night around Patrick. But worse than that Patrick can still feel and he's falling in love with Penhaligon. And he's a guy who tolerates no rivals around especially Rod Mullinar who is Penhaligon's estranged husband.Patrick is a low budget Australian horror film that was shot in and around Melbourne with an Aussie cast. A few more production values could have helped, but the players are fine. Pay particular note to Julia Blake who plays the matron in charge of the hospice who hires Penhaligon against her will. Her character is a ripoff of the infamous Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.It's probably not fair to judge Patrick by USA film standards, the Aussie film industry was just coming into its own in the Seventies. Patrick did get nominated for their version of the Oscar. Still it could have used a little more polish.

This is a real surprise. I only heard of this film through the OZ documentary, 'Not Hollywood' and picked it up for pence, but it is very good indeed.Susan Penhaligon has a lot to do in the lead role as she struggles to communicate with the 'dead' hospital patient, Patrick.Some real suspense, a little nudity and gore but excellent dialogue and a throbbing storyline that maintains a strong interest throughout.Robert Thompson is the poor guy who has to play dead or near dead through the whole film but does a really good job and those eyes, even to the end. Great stuff!

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...

Richard Franklin directs this sci-fi thriller (I use the word thriller VERY lightly) about a parent murdering scumbag who's in a coma but has ESP, from a story by fairly regular collaborator Everett De Roche. I have no clue, how this movie landed the director the job of being at the helm of "Psycho 2", as the film as boring to the point of being tedious. At some point it feels like the movie MIGHT get better, alas it never happens. It's very telling when Robert Thompson ( the actor who plays the comatose Patrick) gives the best performance of the entire film.My Grade:C- DVD Extras: Uncut version; Commentary with Richard Franklin; Both Austrailian and American trailers; ans an easy to find Easter Egg that gives you a look at the soundtrack art that Goblin didEye Candy: Carole-Ann Aylett as Patrick's mum bares her ya-ya's briefly, Helen Hemingway goes topless as well. For the women there's brief sausage