Carrie meets Tommy, and it has a mean and nasty streak underlying it (certainly one where our heroine is emotionally oppressed by many men, and Matron Cassidy), and director Richard Franklin has a particular knack for staging and filming suspsnese set pieces. I wanted it to be... Bloody, frankly. This winds up at least a few good attacks and kills as Patrick uses his comakinesis on those who either may try to kill him or come close to the lovely nurse who gave him a woody by chance, but then it cuts away when it's about time for that big cathartic bang.
Penhaligon is a sympatbdtic lead, if a little two dimensional in portraying this character (maybe the writing can only do so much), and Robert Thompson has one of the great faces of evil in modern cinema. And if you are in the mood for a film that is a little more slow-going it has a few moments where it gets a pulse (an amusing thought given the subject). Maybe its a thing of expectations being a bit skewed; take away the bits of nudity or a "bad" word or two and this could be a PG13 or even PG horror movie. The best thing about it is that it means business when it comes to its moral horror, how men subjugate and try/succeed to control even when they are in a damn coma. I just wish the exploitation elements matched up to that.
Penhaligon is a sympatbdtic lead, if a little two dimensional in portraying this character (maybe the writing can only do so much), and Robert Thompson has one of the great faces of evil in modern cinema. And if you are in the mood for a film that is a little more slow-going it has a few moments where it gets a pulse (an amusing thought given the subject). Maybe its a thing of expectations being a bit skewed; take away the bits of nudity or a "bad" word or two and this could be a PG13 or even PG horror movie. The best thing about it is that it means business when it comes to its moral horror, how men subjugate and try/succeed to control even when they are in a damn coma. I just wish the exploitation elements matched up to that.