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I worry at times, will the Italian exploitation industry of the 1980s ever run out of wonders to make me delirious with? Is there a bottom to this well of movie drugs? Well, sure there is, but every time I think I can't get that high ever again, I put on something like Patrick Still Lives and walk away dazed. Seriously, well done, Mario Landi, you absolute maniac.
Full warning: This is the same lunatic that made Giallo in Venice, so if you think that this is something you can put on to babysit your kids while you do something in the other room, by all means, show your kids a movie where a woman is assaulted by a telekinetic powered poker.
Also, this is totally an unauthorized sequel to the Australian film Patrick, which has no scenes where the wind picks up and a blonde nurse paws at herself in gynecological detail and really, isn't it a worse movie for it?
"You Need to Know … This Time Patrick Will Kill You!"
Oh man, do I ever.
Gabriele Crisanti produced this movie, along with Giallo in Venice, Savage World Today, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror and Satan's Baby Doll. Like any good producer, he put his girlfriend in the film, Mariangela Giordano (she's the Countess in Killer Barbys, as well as making appearances in The Sect, Decameron n° 4 – Le belle novelle del Boccaccio and many more movies). In both this movie and the aforementioned Giallo in Venice, Giordano dies in ways that would potentially upset even Lucio Fulci. She said later, "Looking back I shouldn't have done them. But I was in love with Gabriele. I would have done anything for him. Now I can see how the increasingly gruesome ways he had me killed in them was a reflection of the breakdown in our own relationship. This movie is the worst instance of how shocked I was in retrospect by something I'd done on film. That poker scene is so disgusting, so terrible, only Gabriele could have sweet-talked me into actually doing it! It took two days to film that scene, and because the poker had to keep thrusting between my legs before it came out of the top of my head, it got more and more painful as we kept going. And it was cold and freezing. I don't know why Gabriele always insisted on making these movies during winter."
This movie has lots of J&B, a better car decapitation than Hereditary, green glowing eyes, women stripping in front of coma patients, strobing lights, more nudity than most pornography, a ridiculous plan, dogs eating people, a scalding, a hook to the neck, a health spa that looks like a foreboding castle, Patrick wearing a blonde wig and looking even more ridiculous than I thought he would, a rocking Goblin-esque score by Berto Pisano and an origin story that involves a beer bottle.
I wonder how the people who live in the mansion — Villa Parisi, Via Mondragone, Frascati, Metropolitan City of Rome — feel, knowing that this film, Blood for Dracula and Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror were made there. Surely that place has to be Amityville haunted.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Pure sleaze. Entertaining sleaze and A very bad movie.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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This Italian sequel/rip-off of the original Patrick film maintains the idea of a bedridden lead taking great pleasure in torturing those around him, but this time they turn the sleaze factor up to 11. The ladies are frequently nude and one poor gal meets a really grisly end when a metal pole is jammed through her in the same manner that one might spit roast a pig!
Bizarre, sleazy stuff and I'm pretty sure you know if you want to see it or not, just based on that brief description.
Well worth a look.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/07/23
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Couldn't decide if I liked how weird it was, or if I hated it. There was too much going on with the couples most of the time. The nudity was superfluous and unnecessary for the most part. The actors were bad, as were the effects. And it's not a sequel to Patrick, but a rip off bordering on a porno version of that film. The only reason I say that I kinda liked how weird it was, though, is because of the good death scenes, the unintentional humor, and how absurdly amusing it was. I guess it was an okay movie, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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It's just like the Australian horror movie Patrick, except it's really sleazy. Good times.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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The 1978 Australian produced horror film "Patrick" was a modest hit around the world, especially in the continent of Europe. The Italians, the masters of rip-offs and unofficial sequels that they are, decided to cash in thus produced this poorly constructed follow-up. It's from the makers of the zombie trashfest "Burial Ground" so we know this is going to be one sleazy and contemptible time.
Despite the title, the original character Patrick does not return thus does not 'still live'. We get completely different guy as a completely different coma victim. How did he come to be in a coma you ask? Well someone threw object out their car window hitting him in the face in a thigh slappingly silly scene. A mad doctor finds out that our Patrick stand-in has psychic abilities and invites some of his enemies to his hospital for Patrick to dispose of in all sorts of grisly ways. When 'Patrick' isn't killing and causing people to see his floating eyes, he's busy raping the sexy receptionist.
Everyone behind this lame film is a complete hack - as in a capital H.A.C.K. They take the basic premises of the original and load up on the gore and nudity. Seriously the uncut version of the film borderlines on pornographic when it comes to amounts of skin. The kills are also especially grisly, namely a scene where a women gets skewered through the vagina and out her mouth with a floating metal rod. Damn Patrick has a disgusting mind!
In the midst of the graphic violence and nudity, director Mario Landi creates plenty of unintentional laughs with odd color lighting and hokey effects. Seeing eyes floating around the hospital is especially laughable. The guy he casted as our 'Patrick' stand-in also fails to make an impression. He apparently is a popular Italian pop star but he lacks the hypnotic and terrifying eyes of the original guy that could wring out your soul
"Patrick Still Lives" is the eurotrash version of its Australian counterpart with schlocky filmmakers loading up on gore, sex and nudity to make a quick buck. It's just a cheesy and all around poorly made film. Does that mean it's not worth a watch? Hell no as there is an audience for unintentional funny sleaze like this. It just wasn't made for people who loved the original film thus they miss their target audience they were trying to attract. Plain and simple people who loved "Patrick" are going ot hate "Patrick Still Lives" and vice versa. Even Richard Franklin, director of the original film, was disgusted by this cash-in. That my friend makes it worth at least a watch in my book.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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