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Patrick Vive Ancora
(Patrick Still Lives)
"There's one more thing you need to know ... this time Patrick will kill you!"
A bottle thrown from a Ford Transit ruin the lives of the young Patrick.
His status of an irreversible coma, broke the heart of his father and owner of a medical clinic. The man changes his life and he has only one task: find the guilty. Meanwhile, Patrick has developed huge telekinetic abilities. But Patrick still lives and is fighting with us! He kills the cinema, however, it must be said, even if the first few lines may suggest an interesting horror movie.
Let's starts with the fact tha it isn't clear if this movie
wants to be a sequel, tribute or a parody of "Patrick", a horror film of
1978 directed by Richard Franklin.
And
so we are faced with an Italian 1980's, an erotic horror to be
precise, which gives us a little view as shameless of Agatha Cristhie's of "And Then There Were None". For
the rest of the film by the Roman director Mario Landi put everething
on female nudes, tons of naked bodies, framed by a terrible realization.
Special
effects have their best in the eyes of the protagonist
overlay, an fx incredibly, who crafted to comedy that raises more than
anything else, to get to the plot. At
this point it will be clear that there is little or nothing that works
here and also the story limps a lot, with moments of horror in addition
to sex.
"Patrick
Vive Ancora" is an ultra trash, one of those movies, do bad to became
nice. We must say that not all is trash, because the horror moments,
poorly credible, can
can
annoy the audience by touching some sensitive point. And it must be said, that eroticism is in the hands of a group of excellent women.
Carmen
Russo, young and already bursting, Mariangela Giordano charming in her
simplicity and the blonde meteor Andrea Belfiore, are the backbone of the
film. Used as objects, it must be said, in a very macho style, but that's another story.
They
are part of a series of characters who seem that came from the circus and that Patrick's
father, the Dott.Herschell (Herschell Gordon Lewis tribute to?) Calls in
his clinic, a kind of beauty farm.
Carmen
Russo plays Cheryl Cough, married with congressman Lyndon (whom
she have helped in his career ...), after the incredible death of her
husband, she sleeps naked buttocks upward, leaving the door of the room
open.
Stella Randolph (Mariangela Giordano) with Peter Suniak form a pair consisting of a former prostitute and a drug dealer. She is the victim that end in the hardest way, in a scene very heavy with gynecological details very high. To complete
the female trio there is Andrea Belfiore, beautiful actress seen in
some movies, plays the nurse who takes care of Patrick and whit he had
sex. Via telekinesis. Clearly.
Father and son instead are played by two famous actors of "Cinema di genere": Sascha Pitoeff and Gianni Dei.
The list of characters is completed by David Davis, to imagine as the classic rebellious, womanizing, intelligent and hero. A charatcer that all horror films have. Think of it just because he is the opposite.
All
of these characters, from the dark past, were searched by Dott.Herschell because suspected to be the culprits. So everybody was on the Ford Transit, although many times it is clear that dont' not know each others.
Mario
Landi, roman director, who died in 1992, creates a very imaginative
film, which is the top of his filmography of the last years of his
career. Think a little! '.
A
rather strange career, finished with stuff similar as the thriller
"Giallo a Venezia" and before the comedy "Le impiegate stradali- batton
story" , but started and developed for many years with television
variety shows such as "Uno due tre "with
Ugo Tognazzi, television drama,"Cime Tempestose "or" Le inchieste dell’Ispettore Maigret"and good movies as" Quelli che Contano " In addition to much more. Landi evidently preferred to fight, to live again Patrick. A film definitely deadly to see, but immortal in history.
Technical
Original title: Patrick Still Lives
Alternative Titles: Patrick Is Still Alive, Patrick Still Lives (USA) Patrick lebt! (Germany)
Year: 1980
Country: Italy
Directed by: Mario Landi
Cast: Sacha Pitoeff, Gianni Dei, Mariangela Giordano, Carmen Russo, Paolo Giusti, John Benedy, Franco Silva, Anna Veneziano
Duration: 92 '
Production Company: Stefano Film
