Visiting Hours (1982)
- Directed by
- Jean-Claude Lord
- Genre
- horror film, slasher film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 117 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A feminist journalist is attacked in her home by a serial killer who hates women. She survives and goes to the hospital, but the killer follows her there to try to finish the job.
tenseclaustrophobicgrittysuspensefuldarkmenacingblunt
What happens
Visiting Hours (originally titled The Fright) is a 1982 Canadian psychological slasher film directed by Jean-Claude Lord and starring Lee Grant, Michael Ironside, Linda Purl, William Shatner and Lenore Zann. The plot focuses on Deborah Ballin, a feminist journalist who is attacked in her home by Colt Hawker, a woman-hating serial killer, who then follows her to the hospital to finish her off. Visiting Hours was released on May 28, 1982, and grossed $13.3 million at the box office on a budget of $6 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Victims (1982)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.