Synopsis
The Perfect Patient (Quick, 2019) is Mikael Håfström's Swedish thriller drawn from real events, and you can watch it online on iFILM. At its heart sits what would become Sweden's most notorious miscarriage of justice: a man who confessed to eight murders he never committed.
Locked inside a psychiatric institution, Thomas Quick (David Dencik) keeps claiming one cold case after another, and the courts take his word with no physical evidence to back it. Reporter Hannes Råstam (Jonas Karlsson) starts digging and runs into an ugly question: how did an entire legal system spend years building convictions on the confessions of a heavily medicated patient? The further he pushes, the more he stands to lose. Alba August also appears.
Håfström handles the investigation dry and patient, with no cheap shocks, and that's exactly what unsettles you — the horror lies not in a killer but in a system willing to name a culprit at any cost. One for fans of cold Scandinavian true-crime. Stream The Perfect Patient (2019) online on iFILM.
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