When a young nurse begins work at an isolated psychiatric ward, she quickly becomes fascinated with Patrick, a brain dead patient who is the subject of a scientist's unusual experiments.
What starts as an innocent fascination quickly takes a sinister turn as Patrick begins to use his psychic powers to manipulate her every move, and send her life into a terrifying spiral out of control......
Having never seen the original movie, I had nothing to compare it with, so I went in cold, and kept my expectations reasonably high, because it had Charles Dance in it, and he's a wonderful actor.
And he's the best thing about this movie, which he and Griffiths save from becoming just an average horror movie. That little bit of class from those two, add a lot of gravitas to the overall narrative.
The story is simple enough, comatose patient with telekinetic powers becomes obsessed with someone who has given him a little too much empathy, and instead of heeding the warnings from the matron, albeit in sinister form, she still endeavours to communicate with the titular character, and obviously he wants to return the empathy.
But it's good fun, and particularly creepy in places, but alas, some of the effects can be very very good, and other of the effects can be bloomin' awful, see the doctor in car peril for some truly dreadful CGI.
But these are minor quibbles for what is a nice little movie. The house is particularly creepy, and the final third is all out bonkers, but very tense never the less.
If you can find it, see it, I highly recommend it.
What starts as an innocent fascination quickly takes a sinister turn as Patrick begins to use his psychic powers to manipulate her every move, and send her life into a terrifying spiral out of control......
Having never seen the original movie, I had nothing to compare it with, so I went in cold, and kept my expectations reasonably high, because it had Charles Dance in it, and he's a wonderful actor.
And he's the best thing about this movie, which he and Griffiths save from becoming just an average horror movie. That little bit of class from those two, add a lot of gravitas to the overall narrative.
The story is simple enough, comatose patient with telekinetic powers becomes obsessed with someone who has given him a little too much empathy, and instead of heeding the warnings from the matron, albeit in sinister form, she still endeavours to communicate with the titular character, and obviously he wants to return the empathy.
But it's good fun, and particularly creepy in places, but alas, some of the effects can be very very good, and other of the effects can be bloomin' awful, see the doctor in car peril for some truly dreadful CGI.
But these are minor quibbles for what is a nice little movie. The house is particularly creepy, and the final third is all out bonkers, but very tense never the less.
If you can find it, see it, I highly recommend it.