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Visiting Hours (1982) Movie
Visiting Hours
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Overview
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Ratings/Votes
4.5/10 (888 Votes)
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Release Date
(UK) - 18 April 1982
(Canada) - 21 May 1982
(USA) - 28 May 1982
(Netherlands) - 10 June 1982
(Australia) - 24 June 1982
All Release Dates
(Canada) - 21 May 1982
(USA) - 28 May 1982
(Netherlands) - 10 June 1982
(Australia) - 24 June 1982
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Running Time
105
USA:103
Tagline
There is no known cure.....for MURDER.
In this hospital your next visit may be your last.
So frightening you'll never recover.
Keywords
hospital, journalist, rape, injury, closet, rage, death, psycho, tv, boiling-oil, photograph, staring, fainting, dead-patient, old-man, rifle, television-studio, sofa, b-movie, woman-journalist, hospital-staff, stabbed-in-the-back, neck-breaking, ambulance, stalking
Technical
CAM:Panavision Cameras and Lenses
LAB:Bellevue Pathé Québec Inc., Montreal, Canada
OFM:35 mm
PCS:Spherical
PFM:35 mm
RAT:1.85 : 1
LAB:Bellevue Pathé Québec Inc., Montreal, Canada
OFM:35 mm
PCS:Spherical
PFM:35 mm
RAT:1.85 : 1
Cast of Visiting Hours
- Affleck, Neil as [Police Officer] <14>
- Andrei, Damir as [Paramedic] <15>
- Atkin, Harvey as [Vinnie Bradshaw] <6>
- Bettcher, Steve as [Anesthetist] <17>
- Boone, Walker as [Elevator Policeman] <18>
- Coady, Terrance P. as [Ent. Security Officer] <20>
- Comar, Richard as [Emergency Doctor 2] <21>
- Dennis, Charles as (uncredited) [Doctor]
- Ducharme, Yvan as [Policeman 1] <24>
- Fiore, Domenico as [Policeman 2] <27>
- Francoeur, Richer (I) as [Anesthetist] <29>
- Goldberg, Isadore as [Old Man (cataracts)] <33>
- Hagopian, Dean as [Journalist 1] <34>
- Ironside, Michael as [Colt Hawker] <1>
- Knight, Victor (I) as [Hospital Administrator] <35>
- McKeowan, Bob as [Floor Director] <41>
- Michaels, Steve (I) as [Plainclothesman 1] <39>
- Nelthorpe, Malcolm as [Entrance Security Officer] <42>
- Nincheri, Roland as [Emergency Doctor] <43>
- Rebiere, Richard as (as Richard Briere) [Entrance Policeman] <19>
- Reynolds, Michael J. as [Porter Halstrom] <8>
- Robbins, Ron (I) as [Hair Dresser] <45>
- Robbins, Ron (II) as [Hair Dresser] <45>
- Robinson, Robby (I) as (as Robbie Roberson) [Matthew] <46>
- Shatner, William as [Gary Baylor] <4>
- Silverman, Danny (I) as [Young Colt] <49>
- Starr, Marty as [Sally's Boyfriend] <50>
- Tiberghien, Jérôme as [Grant] <51>
- Vancourt, Randy as (uncredited) [Studio Grip]
- Waln, Dustin as [Mr. Hawker] <13>
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Plot of Visiting Hours
Deborah Ballin is a controversial middle-aged TV journalist, who is campaigning on air on behalf of a battered woman who murdered her abusive husband, claiming justifiable defense against the Full Plot >>Business of Visiting Hours
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M/18 (Portugal)R (Australia)
K-18 (Finland)
-16 (France)
18 (Norway)(video premiere)
15 (Sweden)
18 (UK)
R (USA)
(Banned) (Iceland)
16 (Iceland)(cut)
(Banned) (Norway)(1982-2003) (cinema release)
BPjM Restricted (Germany)
Composers of music of Visiting Hours
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Distributors of Visiting Hours
Anchor Bay Entertainment [us] - (2005) (USA) (DVD)Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation [us]
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Quotes of Visiting Hours
Colt Hawker: [Letters framed on his wall] God, you blast them all: blacks, Jews, Mexicans...Deborah Ballin: Don't leave me. He's here. I know it! Full Quotes >>
Trivia of Visiting Hours
- The film became controversial in the UK after it briefly appeared on the DPP 72 list of video nasties.- The limp Michael Ironside sports at the end of the movie was real; he broke his ankle on the first day of filming.
- Star 'Michael Ironside' (qv) was cast as Colt Hawker partly because he had given such a sinister performance in 'David Cronenberg' (qv)'s _Scanners (1981)_ (qv), which was also from the same producers of Visiting Hours.
- This was the first of the UK's infamous 'Video Nasty' films to be aired on television. The ITV network aired the film uncut in 1989 and subsequently the network received a fine from the Broadcasting Standards Council.
- The hospital used in the film was Veteran's Hospital in Senneville, Quebec. It served for both interior and exterior shooting for the film.
- The theme music for this film is modeled after 'John Carpenter (I)' (qv)'s iconic _Halloween (1978)_ (qv) score.
- The films French title "Terreur a l'hoptial central" translates to The Terror of Central Hospital. Full Trivia >>
