Visiting Hours- Can anyone say Snooooooresville

[chinton]

I just say this 80s salsher tongiht and boy did it so suck. Essentially its about this female reporter who speaks out about domestic abuse and is then stalked by a madman through a hospital for her report against spousal violence.

I do have to give the movie some props after all its very realistic for an 80s slasher but its also so freakin boring. This is incredibly long for some reason and essentially is the same scene over and over. Bad guy somehow gets into hospital kills someone and messes up killing main heroine repeat over and over and over ad naseum. When its not being boring its also really unpleasent. This felt like it was a shoddy ten minute idea stretched out forever. What a dull horrible film.


2/10

[mary lou 102]

well, I'm sorry you feel that way. I went in with no expectations and came out a very happy man. I thought it was suspenseful, well acted, and the scares work better than many other 80's films I can think of. It still holds up pretty well today in my opinion.

I'm sorry you felt that bad about the film, but you win some, you loose some.

[zombievictim]

SNORESVILLE!!!!

Now, what do I get?:D

[chinton]

not sure what you mean.

[killershrew]

You asked in your original post if anyone could say snoresville. zombievictim did and now wants to know what he wins.

I haven't seen this movie, but I remember the TV commercial for it scared the pants off of me when I was a kid. It showed a large building in which the lights were slowly going off one by one until the rooms that were lit formed the pattern of a skull. I think there were also siren noises in the background. It might seem kind of lame now, but when you're only a kid all sorts of stuff gets to you.

[Jason13thh]

Visiting Hours surely belongs to the best slasher movies from the 80's that's for sure.

It's realistic, unpleasant, good writing, maybe not very gory but this slasher is not about gore I think.

It has more in common with Henry: POASK than your usual slasher flicks with a masked killer à la Jason or Michael.

I think this film is more clever than the regular slashers.

I also like the casting featuring Michael Ironside and William Shatner (short role, though)

The woman who portrays the nurse is beautiful and looks sweet. :rolleyes:

[ComeNightfall]

Originally posted by Jason13thh
Visiting Hours surely belongs to the best slasher movies from the 80's that's for sure.

It's realistic, unpleasant, good writing, maybe not very gory but this slasher is not about gore I think.

It has more in common with Henry: POASK than your usual slasher flicks with a masked killer à la Jason or Michael.

I think this film is more clever than the regular slashers.

I also like the casting featuring Michael Ironside and William Shatner (short role, though)

The woman who portrays the nurse is beautiful and looks sweet. :rolleyes:
I gotta agree, this movie is one of the smartest and best slashers out there. It's more of a suspense film too. I always say if Lifetime TV were to get extreme and nasty with their movies, it would be like Visiting Hours. It's also refreshing the "final girl" is not a teenager or a twenty-something.

[JurassicMik]

Love Michael Ironside but this flick didn't really do much for me. I'll admit the VHS (!) I watched it on was worn to shit and that may have detracted from my enjoyment. I just couldn't get into it and didn't find it very suspenseful at all.

[teenkiller]

SPOILERS FOR VISITING HOURS!!!

This film was fucking great. I watched it today for the first time and was not disappointed. It does drag a little but not enough to crippling effect.

Michael Ironside was the man. I loved that even though he was shown prominently throughout the first half hour you still never really got to see his face. He played a good ruthless madman but admittedly a couple of his scenes were dumb. Like when he approaches the woman he's trying to kill... ever so slowly... giving her enough time to scream for help. What did he think was going to happen? I love the scene near the end though when he takes a bottle of pills, straps his arm. and cuts his forearm with shards of a broken bottle. Always thinking...

Yeah I'm sure people will draw comparisons to Halloween 2 since both have the awesome hospital settings. You know what though? Visiting Hours scores more points from me with the surroundings because this place actually acts more like a real hospital. Unlike Halloween 2 which has separate wings but only consists of a staff of maybe eight or nine people. Yeeaaaahhhh...

The score was pretty good as well. Nothing that really strikes you as memorable. It's low key but does the job done.

I just feel the whacko made too many mistakes. Like why did he let that street trash girl live?

Visiting Hours - 7.5/10

[Gutter Ghost]

Visiting Hours has a few really effective moments, i.e. almost every scene featuring Ironside, doin' the strong, silent psychopath thing. It's also particularly mean-spirited, even more so than the other slasher films of the era, which is cool. I liked it more when I was younger, like 15 or so... 6 years later and I just bought it, doesn't hold up very well... it does have dull stretches and too many wordless stalk sequences meant to be suspenseful but ultimately ending up very boring. The presence of Shatner is odd and distracting. Maybe if he had a real role, but his character has no reason for being. He just pops in a few times, and it feels like he should be wearing an "I'm William Shatner" baseball cap. But I'd say it's worth seeing for Ironsides role as the killer, if nothing else.

[teenkiller]

Yeah, there certainly were a couple of long stretches of silence. At one point I don't think I heard anything for about five minutes. I'm just glad that they didn't actually use that image the way it was on the poster. That looks cool for a poster but it would have looked silly in the film. Ha ha. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Cronos]

I've had this on my to see list for years but always forget about it, I've always thought it sounded like a lot of fun.

[MidnightAngel]

Has Visiting Hours been released on dvd or how about a Blu-Ray/HD-DVD treatment?