Visiting Hours

Visiting Hours

So frightening you'll never recover.

Directed by Jean-Claude Lord

Produced by Canadian Film Development Corporation, Filmplan International

1982105 min5.5 / 10

A relentless slasher thriller built on sustained stalking dread and graphic violence, with a misogynistic killer pursuing a vulnerable victim through a hospital setting.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Visiting Hours scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 99% of films.

  • Is Visiting Hours easy watching? No. Less comforting than 99% of films.

  • Does Visiting Hours end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 96% of films.

  • Is Visiting Hours violent? Yes, very. More violent than 95% of films.

  • Is Visiting Hours sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

29/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

You have seen this shape before.

Rarity32

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise58

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love8

How much audiences actually like it

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Like Visiting Hours

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Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Visiting Hours, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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