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Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner, Harvey Atkin ... see more see more... , Helen Hughes , Michael J. Reynolds , Debra Kirschenbaum , Elizabeth Leigh Milne , Maureen McRae , Neil Affleck , Damir Andrei , Walker Boone , Richard Comar , Victor Knight , Katherine Trowell , Lenore Zann , Robbie Robertson , Jerome Tiberghien , Lorena Gale , Sheena Larkin , Danny Silverman , George E. Zeeman , Steve Michaels , Kathleen Fee , Malcolm Nelthorpe , Dora Dainton , Dean Hagopian , Danielle Schneider , Len Watt

A crazed, women-hating killer (Michael Ironside) rapes and brutalizes journalist Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant). When he discovers that his attack didn't kill Deborah, he comes to the hospital to finish w... read more read more...hat he started. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 43 min.

Directed by: Jean-Claude Lord

Release Date: May 28, 1982

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DVD Release Date: April 18, 2006

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Flixster Reviews (78)

  • ajv2688
    January 11, 2011
    ajv2688
    An average horror movie, predictable, and pretty boring for the majority of the film.
  • dukeakasmudge
    March 21, 2012
    dukeakasmudge
    I was really suprised how good of a movie Visiting Hours was.I loved all of the twists & turns there were.Everytime I thought something was gonna happen they changed it up & something else happened.This movie constantly kept me on the edge of my seat & that's what I enjoyed about... read more it.I'd recommend watching Visting Hours on a dark rainy night (Halloween perhaps?) or at least watching it once if nothing else
  • kingmob6
    August 31, 2011
    kingmob6
    Michael Ironside is great as the woman hating murderer who realizes that he left journalist Lee Grant alive after he attacked her, so he spends the rest of this film trying to find a way to kill her in the hospital that she's taken to after his attack.

    The one thing I was most t... read moreaken by was the ease with which the killer moves about in this hospital, as he seems to wander in whenever he feels like it, take a pass at killing Grant, then disappear again for awhile, then turn up again with no one really noticing anything amiss. It's almost comical.

    Well worth a rental.
  • zman47240
    July 25, 2009
    zman47240
    Above average horror film from the 80's with lots of tense moments, featuring William Shatner...man, how can you go wrong?

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Pablo Villaca
June 19, 2006
Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

Ironside traz grande intensidade para um personagem que merecia um filme melhor. Já Grant e Shatner, no piloto automático, se perdem em um filme canalha que se entrega à apologia da 'justiça com as pr...

Scott Weinberg
April 28, 2006
Scott Weinberg, DVDTalk.com

Clumsily directed, painfully paced, and all but entirely lacking in anything even remotely resembling atmosphere, dread, or simple ol' scariness. Full Review

Chuck O'Leary
October 10, 2005
Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

One of the better slasher films of the early '80s thanks to Michael Ironside's menacing performance as the killer. Full Review

Vincent Canby
August 30, 2004
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
July 21, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Jake Euker
June 12, 2005
Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

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Brian J. Arthurs
October 18, 2002
Brian J. Arthurs, Beach Reporter (Southern California)

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Philip Martin
August 29, 2002
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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January 26, 2006
Time Out

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