Visiting Hours
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Movie Reviews of Visiting Hours
Movie Review: One of the best 80's slashers you'll find
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic 80's horror... if you like films like April Fool's Day, My Bloody Valentine, Halloween II and Terror Train, this DVD should be sitting right next to all of them in your entertainment center. There are a few well-crafted scares, the plot is interesting, and the "entertaining" performances by Lee Grant and William Shatner are worth the low sticker price alone.Movie Review: Suspensful thriller with great ensemble cast
Summary: 4 Stars
I see allot of negative reviews about "Visiting Hours" saying it's a rip off of Halloween 2 .Not the case,it's quite different and it's a good movie,the only similarities is most of it takes place in a hospital.
The cast is great,Michael Ironside is very believable and frightening as the stalker and Linda Purl is at her best as the nurse who is also a single mother trying to get by,if I see any similarities it would be with the film "When a stranger calls".Visiting Hours isn't a hard core slasher flick but it is a thriller filled with white knuckle moments and violence.This movie works because you care about the people that are being terrorized so when they are threatened and hurt you feel it too.Lee Grant does a good job as the outspoken TV Journalist "Deborah Balin"who is very vocal about anti violence but when confronted with the choice of kill or be killed will she be so docile and anti violent? watch and see.
All in all it's an entertaining thriller "not horror" that is not forgettable but one you will want to see again one cold night tightly tucked under your blankets..
Movie Review: Bedpan For Room 903...
Summary: 4 Stars
Boy, is Michael Ironside (Scanners, Starship Troopers) ever mad! He's just seen Lee Grant on TV, telling the world that an abused woman was right to shoot her brutish husband in self-defense. You see, Ironside's character, Colt Hawker (!), had a bad childhood w/ a drunk dad and a mum who tossed hot grease in dad's face. Now, Hawker hates all women and especially the uppity ones like Grant's character! He attempts to murder her w/ his footlong switchblade, but she has the audacity to survive! Hawker comes after her in the hospital, leading to many deaths and a game of hide 'n' seek between Ironside and Grant ala Halloween 2. I like this one! We even get Linda Purl as a nurse and William Shatner (Incubus, Devil's Reign) as Grant's utterly useless boss! Ironside was born menacing and always gives me the creeps! He's truly sadistic and twisted in VH, and that's a good thing. Lee Grant is strong and likeable in her role. Definitely worth owning...Movie Review: "HALLOWEEN II" KNOCKOFF
Summary: 4 Stars
In the 80's, there were numerous Halloween copycats. There was Prom Night, Terror Train, Friday the 13th, etc. However, Visiting Hours might be the only Halloween II copycat. It's set in a hospital, just like Halloween II, and it was released just one year later. However, those aren't the only similarities. The killer, played by Michael Ironside, stalking the hospital corridors searching for his surviving victim, just like in Halloween II.
I know it sounds like I'm writing Visiting Hours off as just a rip-off, but it's not just that. It has plenty of jump-out-of-your-seat moments, Michael Ironside makes for one creepy victim, and the finale is good slasher fun.
If you're looking for an 80's psycho-thriller, you could do worse than Visiting Hours.
Movie Review: very Enjoyable
Summary: 4 Stars
Regardless of the negative reviews this was a pretty good drama/slasher film.It's more of a suspense/thriler/slasher film with fine acting, not a bunch of stupid teenagers being stalked by a make believe killer that never dies and has stupid motives for the killings.It's worth the ten bucks or renting if your into more suspense psycological thrillers than low budget bad acting meaningless gore!!!! Great movie