'Visiting Hours' (1982) - John-Claude Lord.

Made during during the slasher movie's hysterically Hack n' slashin' slayday, capable Canadian filmmaker, John-Claude Lord's mean-spirited, hospital-set, haemoglobin-heavy skin-ripper is frequently more Canuck Hitchcock than cheap Camp Blood Copyist. 'Visiting Hours' remains an entirely credible shocker, as seeing the outspoken, equal rights supporting TV journalist, Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant) being savagely stalked by maniacal misogynist, Colt Hawker (Michael Ironside) has a disturbing verisimilitude that the luridly entertaining, but eminently trashier 80s teen-killers conspicuously lacked. The strong, entirely sympathetic female protagonists almost overwhelmed by Michael Ironside's terminal toxicity, with a humanely low key, touchy-feely William Shatner, and a heart-stoppingly hate-fuelled climax excitingly prevents 'Visiting Hours' from becoming an anaesthetizing experience! 

The exemplary cast adds considerable ballast to the slender, slash-happy plot, and, perhaps, one of Visiting Hours more unique qualities is that it features TWO more than capable Final Girls; Linda Purl's gamine, can-do medic, Sheila, and Lee Grant's courageously combative, Ballin, these tremendously resourceful heroines are brutally tormented by an increasingly unhinged, spree-killing predator. Michael Ironside's disturbingly nuenced, indelibly intense portrayal of the impotent, morbidly scheming psychopath, Colt remains queasily convincing! Like a great number of horror films uniformly low-balled at their initial release, this gritty Canadian creepfest glisters with renewed cinematic rigour on HD! Competently directed, strongly acted, featuring one of the more stunningly sinister 80s screen slayers, plus an atmospheric score by, Jonathan Goldsmith, this compellingly creepy Canadian blood-spiller has put a generation of horror fans into intensive scare!'

'With a pyrotechnically perverse performance from the sordidly slashing sicko, Michael Ironside, director Jean-Claude Lord's scalpel sharp slasher has a kick like a thumbnail tracheotomy! With angsty scares, and visceral, blood-spattered action, 'Visiting Hour' puts the anaemic competition in traction!!!' - Weirdlingwolf.