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Mar 14, 2014 · With a wonderfully creepy score by regular Brian De Palma collaborator Donaggio, the movie gets a lot of mileage out of pokey source material. Advertisement. In the new film, Nurse Kathy Jacquard ( Sharni Vinson) becomes fascinated with coma victim (Jackson Gallagher). But while Kathy's weirdly drawn to Patrick, she can only get so close to him.
Mar 14, 2014 · Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 14, 2014 Full Review Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com More horror remakes should be as thoughtful as "Patrick: Evil Awakens," an atypically clever riff on the 1978 Australian thriller ...
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Mar 14, 2014 · Patrick: Evil Awakens: Directed by Mark Hartley. With Sharni Vinson, Rachel Griffiths, Charles Dance, Peta Sergeant. At a private clinic, a young nurse soon discovers that one of the comatose patients is quite sinister.
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Mar 14, 2014 · Film Review: ‘Patrick: Evil Awakens’. This well-crafted remake of 1978's 'Patrick' is rich in gothic trappings and features a terrific central performance by Sharni Vinson. By Richard Kuipers ...
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By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:58 pm
Posted: Mar 16, 2014 3:29 am
Patrick: Evil Awakens has all the right ingredients to be a perfectly enjoyable horror yarn: a creepy hospital, an even creepier doctor, a bloody mystery, and some creative deaths. Unfortunately, even the best ingredients can amount to nothing when not blended correctly. Patrick: Evil Awakens offers some talented actors doing their best with lackluster material, peppered with some amusing practical make-up effects, but offers nothing of substance to make this a movie worth spending your money on. It’s late-night cable fodder at the very best.
Kathy Jacquard (Sharni Vinson) is a nurse on the run from her problems when she gets hired at a dilapidated hospital run by Doctor Roget (Charles Dance) with the help of his eerie daughter, Matron Cassidy (Rachel Griffiths). The hospital runs questionable experiments on comatose patients, as Roget attempts to revive their brains with extreme methods. Befriended by the jovial Nurse Williams (Peta Sergeant), Kathy soon becomes obsessed with a patient named Patrick (Jackson Gallagher) who seems to be communicating only with her. Naturally, things go bad quickly.
Vinson is effective as Nurse Jacquard, playing her as competent, compassionate, and when the scene calls for it, absolutely terrified. Though most of the scare sequences are cliché-ridden, Vinson manages to spice up even the most banal lines of dialogue with her performance. Charles Dance is utterly delightful, playing the mad doctor almost void of humanity, instead replaced by sadistic wickedness. It’s a role that could have easily been turned campy with a lesser actor, but Dance is so on the money that it never even approaches that sort of tone.
Patrick: Evil Awakens is an entirely forgettable horror flick that lets the great talent involved go to waste. There are certainly more entertaining low-budget horror offerings that you can waste an evening on.
- Cliff Wheatley
Patrick (released internationally as Patrick: Evil Awakens) is a 2013 Australian supernatural horror film directed by Mark Hartley and a remake of the 1978 film of the same name. [1] [2] It had its world premiere on 27 July 2013 at the Melbourne International Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release on 14 March 2014, followed by ...
Mar 14, 2014 · While Patrick: Evil Awakens is a remake of a 70's horror film that I have never watched, it has that 70's horror movie vibe to it, art direction and production design wise, if it isn't for the new techno in this movie, the whole building the characters and the dark story all have that 70's & 80's horrorish style to them.
