Hartley, known around the genre festival circuit for his documentaries Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation, Machete Maidens Unleashed! and the anticipated Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, is tackling the remake of Richard Franklin's 1978 Ozploitation film Patrick.Bankside Films have released the first image of Jackson Gallagher as PATRICK. The photo features a rare instance when he's not in a coma!
In the original film, Patrick is a comatose hospital patient who harasses and
kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse, Kathy Jacquard, as
his own. Production company Bankside Films' logline is: "After killing his mother and her lover
some years before, Patrick is the comatose patient in room 15 of a
remote, private psychiatric clinic...".