Patrick
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
Our read · Patrick (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Patrick
What watching it is actually like.
“You want creepy telekinetic horror with a comatose patient pulling the strings.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if hospital-set psychic revenge or gory kills will ruin your night.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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