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Visiting Hours

  • 19821982
  • RR
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
4.4K
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Visiting Hours (1982)
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A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
4.4K
YOUR RATING
    • Jean-Claude Lord
    • Brian Taggert(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Michael Ironside
    • Lee Grant
    • Linda Purl
    • Jean-Claude Lord
    • Brian Taggert(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Michael Ironside
    • Lee Grant
    • Linda Purl
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    • 95User reviews
    • 75Critic reviews
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    Visiting Hours (1982)
    William Shatner and Lee Grant in Visiting Hours (1982)
    Michael Ironside and Harvey Atkin in Visiting Hours (1982)
    Michael Ironside and Harvey Atkin in Visiting Hours (1982)
    Michael Ironside and Harvey Atkin in Visiting Hours (1982)
    Walker Boone in Visiting Hours (1982)
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    Linda Purl in Visiting Hours (1982)
    Linda Purl in Visiting Hours (1982)
    Linda Purl in Visiting Hours (1982)
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    Michael Ironside
    Michael Ironside
    • Colt Hawker
    Lee Grant
    Lee Grant
    • Deborah Ballin
    Linda Purl
    Linda Purl
    • Sheila Munroe
    William Shatner
    William Shatner
    • Gary Baylor
    Lenore Zann
    Lenore Zann
    • Lisa
    Harvey Atkin
    Harvey Atkin
    • Vinnie Bradshaw
    Helen Hughes
    Helen Hughes
    • Louise Shepherd
    Michael J. Reynolds
    Michael J. Reynolds
    • Porter Halstrom
    Kirsten Bishop
    Kirsten Bishop
    • Denise
    • (as Kirsten Bishopric)
    Deborah Kirshenbaum
    • Connie Wexler
    • (as Debra Kirschenbaum)
    Elizabeth Leigh-Milne
    • Patricia Ellis
    Maureen McRae
    • Elizabeth Hawker
    Dustin Waln
    • Mr. Hawker
    Neil Affleck
    Neil Affleck
    • Police Officer
    Damir Andrei
    • Paramedic
    Dorothy Barker
    • Sally Flavin
    Steve Bettcher
    • Anesthetist
    Walker Boone
    • Elevator Policeman
      • Jean-Claude Lord
      • Brian Taggert(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The limp Michael Ironside sports at the end of the movie was real. He broke his ankle on the first day of filming.
    • Goofs
      (at around 45 mins) Michael Ironside's character dashes through a bathroom door in the hospital, and the camera and 2-3 crew members are briefly reflected in the mirror above the sink, before he closes the door.
    • Quotes

      Lisa: [On the letters framed on Colt's wall] God, you blast them all: blacks, Jews, Mexicans...

    • Alternate versions
      The film was listed as one of the original DPP 74 UK video nasties. UK cinema and video versions were cut by the BBFC to edit a scene where Colt traces his knife across Lisa before slashing her clothing and shots of Colt kicking Sheila as he photographs her. The uncut version was shown on ITV in 1989 by mistake and the company was publicly rebuked by the Broadcasting Standards Council.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Hanky Panky/Annie/Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan/Grease 2 (1982)

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    7/10
    Unjustifiably low rated
    Visiting Hours is the film I saw, more than once in movie theater. Having opportunity to get it on DVD I didn't know what to expect. Very few films from my childhood "at the movies" stood the test of time, but the ones that made an impact then, are forever implanted in my film taste. Same thing happened with this film. It is untypical - typical horror film, that looks like traditional 80's slashers but different in all the key points. I never looked at any of Michael Ironside's roles without seeing the deranged psychopath he portrayed in this one.

    It's qualities for me, are shortcomings for the majority of horror picture fans. It doesn't have new body spraying buckets of blood every two and a half seconds. It doesn't have freaks with masks and buzzin' chain saws, severed heads and body parts flying around. It has a story of deeply disturbed character, and his rampage through the world around him that he hates deeply and profoundly. Not just the women. He hates them all, and with passion. It has character actors, not bunch of nobodies that are only there to supply bodies for the count. They are not in their best dramatic roles, and the movie could have been better, but it's not half bad either, and it surely doesn't deserve such low rating.

    This movie has something in it that's still there all these years. It aged well and you can't say that for many of them. It's different in it's usualness and that is the catch. Look for it, even if you don't like horrors. It won't give you nightmares, it will make an impression.
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    • Release date
      • May 28, 1982 (United States)
      • Canada
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Senneville, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)
      • Filmplan International
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    • 1 hour 43 minutes
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