2013 · horror · sci-fi · thriller
Patrick
Directed by Mark Hartley1h 36m2013
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
Our read: Patrick (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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