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

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)

Trailer

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