Patrick lives!

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Movie
German title Patrick lives!
Original title Patrick vive ancora
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1980
length 92 minutes
Age rating Rated 18/16
Rod
Director Mario Landi
script Piero Regnoli
production Gabriele Crisanti
music Berto Pisano
camera Franco Villa
cut Mario Salvatori
occupation

Patrick lives! is an Italian horror film from 1980. The film belongs to the horror subgenre of slasher films .

action

Young Patrick falls into a coma after a trivial accident in which he is hit by a bottle from a moving car. He is taken to a private facility run by his father, Professor Herschell. After all attempts at healing failed, Patrick spent a few years in a coma. One day several people are invited to the professor's private home for a secret experiment. These are better-off people of higher social status who have not always acquired their power through legal means, which is why some of the professor blackmailed them to take part in the experiment.

One of the people dies under mysterious circumstances on the first night. Nobody knows what kind of experiment it is and what the professor is really up to. This works undercover in the background and wants to take revenge on the perpetrator who brought his son into a coma. In addition, he was able to increase the mental abilities of Patrick through further experiments. And although Patrick is still in a coma after years of vegetative state, he has lost his own will and uses his powers according to his father's will to take revenge on all people in a bestial way. He manages to control the mind of every person so that it becomes a tool of murder for him. Little by little all those present die in a cruel way.

criticism

“Basically, PATRICK is LIVE! a third rate horror film at best; but with his Asi-Sleaze'n'Gore-inlays he crowns himself to the guilty pleasure, which every year wanders into the player for one and a half bloodthirsty dirty hours ... "

- filmtipps.at

The Italian critics were also not very enthusiastic and accused Landi of using the “ story, which is undecided between Giallo and horror” only to “sexualize it and to undress his actresses at every opportunity”.

publication

Patrick lives! had its Italian theatrical release on May 15, 1980. In Germany it was released on December 20, 1988 as a video first release and has been available on DVD since August 4, 2001.

Remarks

The title tries to portray the film as a sequel to the successful Australian thriller Patrick .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Criticism on filmtipps.at
  2. ↑ rp, quoted from Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film dal 1980 al 1989, vol. 5, tomo 2, MZ. Gremese 2000, pp. 120/121