Patrick Nonetheless Lives is a 1980 Italian paranormal horror movie directed by veteran Mario Landi (Giallo in Venice) from a screenplay by Piero Regnoli (Nightmare Metropolis; Malabimba; The Playgirls and the Vampire).
The movie – unique title: Patrick vive ancora – is an unauthorised sequel of the Australian horror movie Patrick (1978).
The Stefano Movie manufacturing stars Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei, Mariangela Giordano and Carmen Russo
Our overview:
Of all of the rip-off sequels the Italians have ever shortly rushed into manufacturing, this follow-up to Richard Franklin’s Patrick stays the oddest. Sleazier and much more compulsively gratifying than its considerably extra sombre Australian mannequin, the late Landi’s closing work for the large display screen is a far cry from the various episodes of Inspector Maigret he directed for TV.
Whereas not as pathologically violent as his earlier Giallo a Venezia, there is no such thing as a scarcity of grisly moments, every prefaced by a hilarious pair of staring eyes tackily superimposed onto the print. Villa’s pictures is cleanly useful, mixing the occasional high-angled shot with some atmospheric day-for-night exteriors, all filmed on the Villa Parisi in Frascati, the identical mansion utilized in Blood for Dracula and The Nights of Terror.
As with different Gabriele Crisanti-produced horrors, Patrick vive ancora manages to create an eerie feeling of claustrophobia, successfully enhanced by Berto Pisano’s soundtrack music which mixes a sub-‘Tubular Bells’ melody with doom-laden bass guitar notes, discordant electrical piano and the Eno-like synth beeps from the soundtrack of The Nights of Terror.
This cut-price carnage pic additionally scores closely within the thespian division: Gianni Dei, who had been the boyfriend of Femi Benussi and the husband of Magda Konopka, and was rumoured to be very nicely endowed, was an everyday face in Z-grade options; Franco Silva has acted in each well-liked style the trade needed to supply; John Benedy had graduated from tawdry Sixties photo-novels; Paolo Giusti was the good-looking hunk in sleaze dramas resembling Crimson Gentle Ladies, and Sacha Pitoëff was outrageously slumming it after his work with Resnais and Argento (Inferno).
To ice the casting cake, the film serves up loads of gratuitous unclothed scenes that includes Carmen Russo and Anna Veneziano, and the ever-dependable Mariangela Giordano – then producer Gabriele Crisati’s girlfriend. Of her infamously over-the-top death-by-long-poker scene she has stated, “It took two days to movie that scene, and since the poker needed to hold thrusting between my legs earlier than it got here out of the highest of my head, it obtained increasingly painful as we saved going. And it was chilly and freezing. I don’t know why Gabriele insisted on making these motion pictures throughout winter.” One sequence Giordano remembers with affection, nevertheless, is a drunken catfight with busty glamour puss Carmen Russo: “That was enjoyable, all my pent up rage in the direction of Gabriele is in that brawl.” As standard, she wore all of her personal outfits too…
Patrick vive ancora could also be little greater than bottom-of-the-barrel schlock however in comparison with a lot of the conveyor belt fodder that will get handed off as A-grade cinema nowadays, it’s one tacky little treasure that deserves to be cherished. Viva Patrick!
Mark Thompson-Ashworth, MOVIES & MANIA
Forged and characters:
Sacha Pitoëff … Physician Herschel – Inferno
Gianni Dei … Patrick Herschel – Giallo in Venice
Mariangela Giordano [as Maria Angela Giordan] … Stella Randolph – Giallo in Venice; The Nights of Terror
Carmen Russo … Cheryl Kraft – Ring of Darkness
Paolo Giusti … David Davis
Franco Silva … Lyndon Kraft
John Benedy … Peter Suniak
Anna Veneziano … Meg
Andrea Belfiore … Lydia Grant
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