5.9 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
After killing his mother and her lover some years before, Patrick is the comatose patient in room 15 of a remote, private psychiatric clinic.
Starring: Sharni Vinson, Charles Dance, Rachel Griffiths, Peta Sergeant, Damon GameauHorror | 100% |
Thriller | 23% |
Sci-Fi | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.41:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
English SDH
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
Digital copy
DVD copy
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
The only thing more dangerous than his hate is his love.
Patrick: Evil Awakens is a remake of the 1978 film Patrick starring Robert Helpmann and directed by Richard Franklin. The
new film makes use of modern technology in furthering story, incorporating cell phones and computer screens as key plot drivers. Otherwise, it's a
fairly static, simple formula Horror/Chiller film that shares the same basic notes with the original cult favorite. Imagine Stonehearst Asylum meets Carrie meets pick-a-movie in the "coma" genre (say The Cell), and that's pretty much Patrick: Evil Awakens: a dark,
dreary, out-of-the-way hospital housing a comatose patient who has amazing powers of perception and supernatural control over others. It's a fair
little venture, not particularly memorable or distinctive but not immediately forgettable or in any way bad. It's filler cinema, essentially, a movie that
doesn't insult the audience but that likely won't stick with audiences, either, or be remembered in all that many top 10, 50, or even 100 list unless, of
course, one counts down a list of the best "dreary hospital+comatose patient+telekinesis" sub-genre films of all time. But who does that?
Hello Patrick.
Patrick: Evil Awakens features a simple and straightforward 1080p transfer. The image is deliberately dreary with a predominantly gray feel to it. Colors are heavily muted or not even woven into the production all that much, for that matter. The brightest shades come in a single shot of a potted plant that reveals some nicely vibrant greens and purples. Details satisfy but never get down into the nitty-gritty of skin or hospital structural textures. The image is fairly smooth and somewhat pasty, revealing decent clarity but too little in the way of healthy complexity. Black levels aren't too troubling. Flesh tones satisfy under the movie's basic visual style. Light banding and moderate noise are visible throughout.
Patrick: Evil Awakens features a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that's not at all bad given the lossy constraints. It's healthy and active and shows a fair bit of musical clarity, definition, space, weight, and surround support. Eerie little sound effects drift through the stage, and the movie is packed with more distinct support pieces like a roomful of ticking clocks, electrical currents waving through the listening area, heavy iron gates sliding to the side, and chilly wind effects blowing through the listening area. The track features some quality dialogue reverberation in a museum in chapter five, and general dialogue plays with a positive and balanced center-front presentation for the duration. This is around the high end of lossy sound.
Patrick: Evil Awakens contains only a selection of interviews (1080p) with key cast and crew, including Actors Charles Dance (3:53), Sharni Vinson (1:56), and Rachel Griffiths (2:10); Director Mark Hartley (1:31); Producer Anthony I. Ginnane (3:13), and Co-Writer Justin King (1:58). The "Behind the Scenes" supplement listed on the back of the box does not appear to be included.
Patrick: Evil Awakens isn't a budding classic, nor is it a throwaway film. It falls into the happy medium of midlevel moviemaking. It's hardly original -- it's a remake, after all -- and doesn't do anything exceptionally well in terms of plot, performance, or mood, but it's a nice little genre time killer that plays it straight, refuses to depend on jump scares, and even if it gets a little wild-eyed and convoluted in its final act, still makes for a movie with a nice, if not generic, overall flow and arc. In short, viewers could do much better, and they could do much worse. Phase 4's Blu-ray release of Patrick: Evil Awakens features fair video and lossy audio. A handful of interviews comprise the entire supplemental tab. Worth a rental or a buy on a very steep sale.
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