A psychopath named
Patrick (Robert Thompson) electrocutes
his mother and her lover in a baqthtub
and then lays comatose in a small private
hospital for four years and his only
action being his involuntary spitting.
A beautiful young nurse named Kathy
Jaquard (Susan Penhaligon) has just
separated from her husband and starts her
job at the hospital. She takes quite an
interest to Patrick as she senses that
he's communicating with her through his
spitting and using his special powers to
try and kill the men that communicate
with her to manipulate events in her
life.
He communicates with her through a
typewriter as he seems fascinated with
her and wants no other guy to be with her
and will try to kill with his mind if he
has to as well as control everyone's
actions too in a horrible way.
A very strange
film but extremely mysterious with some
supernatural events like you'd see in
the Exorcist, The Omen
and Rosemary's Baby but
this film had nothing to do with the
devil at all.
You want to wonder if this psychopath
will ever awaken and kill someone but it
really is interesting that he kills with
his mind by possessing others and using
special forces through his mind too.
It's one of those movies that stands on
it's own and a very memorable one for
many horror fans who likes to get psyched
out on what the hell is going on.
You'd wonder big time on the mind of this
maniac and how he communicates while
being in a coma which was truly freaky.
This film can give you nightmares if you
really got into it too. The film is
totally psyched out like I mentioned that
it leaves a chill down your spine the
performance was that creepy with
everyone.
The acting is very
well done for it's time in which lead
actress Susan Penhaligon seemed
to have studied her role nicely by
playing a nurse in training with her nice
attitude and at the same time her
aggressions as well.
Robert Helpmann is terrific with his
intensity and obnoxious attitude making
his role as a realistic employer who is
not easy to work with.
Ron Mullinar really brings on the
charm with his bubbly attitude and
understanding behavior for his part in
the film being the typical nice guy next
door kind.
Bruce Barry was right on with his
seriousness and one of the prime targets
of Patrick's who knew how to act powerful
when he wanted to be.
Julia Blake was probably the one who
stood out the most with her aggressive
and prickly actions as the head matron of
the asylum showing good expressions too.
Robert Thompson had no lines at all
and mainly stayed in his hospital bed but
he really looked great with his wide
paranoid looking eyes and non expressions
being in a coma.
There's a brief
nude scene with both Paul Young
and Marilyn Rogers having a
lustful moment together in bed and in a
bathtub.
Maria Mercedes is swimming topless
and her breasts are briefly exposed.
There's a burned
hand
A woman's face is badly scarred to death
Richard
Franklin is very impressive with his
work on the scene's and his actors making
it really creepy looking and does great
with his beginning on supporting actor Robert
Thompson lying there with the camera
panning on the supporting actors
Carole Ann-Aylett and Paul Young
having an affair in the other room
which shows a good dark feeling to it as
well as Thompson later on going
in the other room trying to electrocute
them with an electric heater while
they're taking a bath which looked truly
intense.
A nice moment with Susan Penhaligon entering
the hospital room and Thompson
just lying there wide eyed and coming up
to him and he spits which almost makes
you jump. Very well done.
A good shot on Julia Blake as a
matron trying to write something and
falling asleep with a disply on her table
slowly moving.
There's a nice moment with Penhaligon
sitting at a poolside smoking a
cigarette while Bruce Barry tried
to introduce himself to her and she acts
a little stand offish with nice shots on
him swimming in the pool and then he is
struggling as if something is pulling him
down which grabs your attention quite
well wondering if he will survive and Penhaligon
looking concerned and walking over
towards him and holding out her hand.
We have a good moment with Penhaligon
in the hospital room talking on the
phone with Ron Mullinar on the
other line and she acts aggressive
towards him and hangs up which looked
believeably directed on a dispute. Then
we have a good moment with her and Thompson
when he spits and she tries to
communicate with him after a good slap in
the face on him along with a nice close
up shot on him with a tear shedding.
There's nice effective communication with
her when she feels him and asks if he can
feel her touching him.
A perfect scene with Blake
acting stern towards Penhaligon giving
her a warning about her behavior with the
patients in the asylum and what will
happen if she does it again showing a
good aggressive expression and her
forceful words.
There's a terrific moment with Penhaligon
typing away and then the words are
changing along with the camera shots on Thompson
lying on the hospital bed.
There's a good moment with Robert
Helpmann acting obnoxious towards
supporting actress Maria Mercedes
to activate a heather or tripping out
when Thompson lets out a spit.
We have another shot on Thompson
slowly turning his head towards
Mercedes with a perfect terrifying
scream.
There's terrific shots with both Penhaligon
and Barry in the room using
a strobe light on Thompson along
with a nice presence on Blake
trying to put her hand on the doorkbnob
to the room and constantly acts hesiant
and having strange reactions.
Then we have a good shot on Blake
walking into an electricity room about to
pull down the handle to the power switch
with some shocking reactions.
We have a nice blocking moment with
Helpmann bringing a knife towards Thompson
and then holding back along with a nice
blow on him falling into the hallway then
acting crazy towards Penhaligon acting
in a panick craze.
We have a nice scene with Penhaligon on
the typewriter trying to communicate with
Patrick and a bunch of supernatural
forces happening like things exploding or
files blowing papers in the air.
There's a good blocking reaction with Penhaligon
in a trance this time
trying to put a needle in her arm with
Mullinar stopping her by taking the
needle out and her falling into his arms
sobbing.
Composer Brian May
performs alot of good quivering violin
playing with some drum thumping sounds
for the real suspenseful moments with the
good typical high pitched violin sounds
too like you'd picture in a murder
mystery with some low piano poundings for
the supernatural events revolving around
Patrick. Of course we have some neat
synthesizer dark sounds too.
Tons of great violin squealing music when
the closing credits starts and then some
peaceful piano playing with a flute
blending int too and some relaxing violin
orchestra tunes combining it alltogether
giving the ending a nice touch.
Whitney:
The piranhas...
Buck Gardner: What about the
goddamn piranhas?
Whitney: They're eating the
guests, sir.
Dumont:
People eat fish, Grogan. Fish don't eat
people.
Maggie
McKeown: That guard is still out
there.
Paul Grogan: Fine, I need you to
distract him.
Maggie McKeown: What for?
Paul Grogan: So I can get away.
Maggie McKeown: So YOU can get
away? What about me?
Paul Grogan: Well suit yourself.
Just come onto him, tell him what an
admirer you are of Army or something like
that.
Maggie McKeown: What if he's gay?
Paul Grogan: Then I'll go and
distract him!
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