Rotten
The fact that the film is not tacky in appearance, and is energetically acted, only makes it more depressing.
Don Peretta, Time Out
Visiting Hours
So frightening you'll never recover.
1982 · 1h 45m · R
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Jean-Claude Lord
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jean-Claude Lord Director
- Lee Grant as Deborah Ballin
- Michael Ironside as Colt Hawker
- Linda Purl as Sheila Munroe
- William Shatner as Gary Baylor
- Lenore Zann as Lisa
- Harvey Atkin as Vinnie Bradshaw
- Helen Hughes as Louise Shepherd
- Michael J. Reynolds as Porter Halstrom
- Kirsten Bishop as Denise
- Deborah Kirshenbaum as Connie Wexler
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
15%
Tomatometer
Rotten
An especially clumsy, overwrought example of slash-and-hack melodrama.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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