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The Fury
Why this pick
Shares Patrick’s late-’70s telekinetic menace, medicalised experimentation, and escalating sense that an apparently helpless psychic subject is profoundly dangerous.
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MOVIE1978 1h 52m AUS
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The Dead Zone
Why this pick
Its coma aftermath and psychic awakening echo Patrick, but Cronenberg treats the premise with mournful intimacy and steadily tightening supernatural dread.
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The Medusa Touch
Why this pick
A taut, chilly investigation into a comatose man whose mind may cause catastrophic events; it closely matches Patrick’s institutional unease and paranormal suspense.
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The Sender
Why this pick
Set largely in a psychiatric hospital, this restrained supernatural thriller turns a catatonic young patient into an unnerving source of intrusive psychic phenomena.
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Cassandra's Dream
Why this pick
For Patrick’s controlled, compact suspense and moral chill, this is an increasingly claustrophobic thriller about ordinary people pushed toward irreversible consequences.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Three years after murdering his parents, Patrick (Thompson) lies in a coma at the Roget Clinic, a private hospital in Melbourne. Following a job interview with Matron Cassidy (Blake), the head of the hospital, Kathie Jacquard (Penhaligon) is taken on as Patrick's new nurse. The hospital's owner, Dr. Roget (Helpmann), explains Patrick's condition to Kathie and says he is being kept alive to explore the nature of life and death. He also says that another patient, Capt. Fraser (Pym), claims that Patrick "flies in and out of the window at night." Elsewhere, Kathie deals with her ex-husband Ed (Mullinar), who she recently separated from.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rod Mullinar
Ed Jacquard
Robert Thompson
Patrick
Susan Penhaligon
Kathy Jacquard
Bruce Barry
Dr. Brian Wright
Julia Blake
Matron Cassidy