31 Films for Halloween, #15: Patrick (1978)
1970s horror movies are a breed apart. The era of radioactive giant animals had ended With some notable exceptions, of course. and the horror industry was just making it up as they went along. Supernaturalism and satanism were favored topics, but Just Plain Weirdness like cryptids, Italian dwarves in raincoats, and Margot Kidder roamed the cinematic plains. One of the creatures didn't roam at all, however. That creature was Patrick (1978) Patrick is a coma-patient who is more aware than his caretakers realize and who has psychokinesis and MINDPOWERS. Patrick is also... well, being immobile would make anyone crabby, but that aside, Patrick is not a nice person. He's a bit, let's say "possessive", and that's how he wound up in a coma in the first place. He's stuck in a slummy/crummy hospital, where the staff isn't very sympathetic (but it's kind of hard to blame them). The Main Doctor is trying to electroshock Patrick out of his coma; Patrick...