Visiting Hours | |
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Directed by | Jean-Claude Lord |
Written by | Brian Taggert |
Produced by | Victor Solnicki Claude Héroux Pierre David |
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Cinematography | René Verzier |
Edited by | Jean-Claude Lord |
Music by | Jonathan Goldsmith |
Production companies | Canadian Film Development Corporation Filmplan International |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (US) Astral Films (Canada) |
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Running time | 105 minutes[2] |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Budget | $6 million[3] |
Box office | $13.3 million[1] |
Visiting Hours (originally titled The Fright) is a 1982 Canadian psychological slasher film directed by Jean-Claude Lord and starring Lee Grant, Michael Ironside, Linda Purl, William Shatner and Lenore Zann. The plot focuses on a feminist journalist who becomes the target of a serial killer, who follows her to the hospital after attacking her in her home.
Visiting Hours was released on May 28, 1982, and grossed $13.3 million at the box office on a budget of $6 million. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics.