So I was just messing around IMDB today and I decided that I'd put my first name in the search box and see what I got. I had just read Kris Kristofferson's Bio which is pretty interesting and I was wondering what other strange/cool things I might find. So I typed in "Patrick" and hit enter expecting a bunch of actors I've never heard of and of course the inimitable Patrick Swayze. To my surprise though there was actually two movies simply titled "Patrick."

"Wow", I thought, "I wonder what kind of movies are titled Patrick?"

I noticed that one of the movies was released in the year of my birth, 1978, which seemed a little weird. I immediately clicked on the link to find more information....



Tagline: He's in a coma... Yet, he can kill...

After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister 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.

Summary written by R Lindsay

So there's this whole story in my family about how the Jefe came by his name, suffice it to say that it's a cute little anecdote. But in light of this new evidence I think I'm going to have to question the veracity of these explanations...

I mean if you named your son after a comotose, pyschic, spitter guy in a crappy 70's horror film would you cop to that decades later?

And I think we all know that "pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband" equals nurse running around in nothing but underwear which is pivotal to any good horror movie.

They just don't make them like they used to.
el Jefe