Patrick Still Lives

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Patrick Still Lives
Patrick Still Lives.jpg
Directed by Mario Landi
Written by Piero Regnoli
Produced byGabriele Crisanti
Starring
CinematographyFranco Villa
Edited byMario Salvatori
Music by Berto Pisano
Distributed by Variety Distribution
Release date
  • 15 May 1980 (1980-05-15)
Running time
92 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Patrick Still Lives (Italian : Patrick vive ancora, also known as Patrick Is Still Alive) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Mario Landi, and his last film. It is a low-budget unauthorized sequel of the Australian horror Patrick from two years earlier. [1] [2] It is known primarily for its graphic scenes of sex and gore, [1] [2] notably an extremely graphic scene of rape, which ended with the victim disembowelled with a poker. [1] The film was shot in the same house later used as main set in Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror . [1]

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Plot

The film follows events surrounding a young boy named Patrick sent into a coma after a roadside accident and who develops psychic powers with which he is free to commit brutal murders.

Cast

Production

Mariangela Giordano regretted filming the scene in which she is violated by a floating poker: "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[Crisanti] 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." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer, 1999. ISBN   8820029197.
  2. 1 2 Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
  3. ↑ Shock Xpress 2, p. 71 , p. 71, at Google Books


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