 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies. What are we drinking today? We are drinking cannibal farmhouse French farmhouse ale today. We're gonna be talking about 1982's visiting hours It is directed by Jean-Claude Lorde. He directed the vindicator Never seen it no clue what it's about, but that movie cover looks tacky as fuck. Yeah the name of it is shitty Oh the vindicator it stars Michael Ironside He's like Canada's best export for playing bad guys right probably most well-known for Scanners total recall total recall and the bad guy in the next karate kid That's right. It also stars Lee Grant. She's in in the heat of the night. They call me mr. Timbs and the omen to and Also another one of Canada's great exports is in this William Shatner weave and all Yeah, especially in this it's all perfect Yeah, so the movie starts off at a TV station Deborah Balin Discussing this case that just happened this murder trial. She really starts grilling the shit out of this lawyer He can't even air most of what she was arguing to the lawyer about because it's just far too controversial There's somebody watching and you see his hand that he's squeezing like a tension ball Deborah makes it home that night things are a little off. There's water running upstairs So she goes up to investigate boom somebody comes and attacks her But he's making Earrings and What the hell she gets into like a dumb wader and tries to get away from him grab the rope and start Pulling her up in the dumb wader and he cuts one of the ropes and she falls right out She ends up escaping from the house She eventually has to get taken to the hospital because of all of her wounds at the hospital She brief friends one of the nurses Sheila He kind of goes there to finish the job disguised as like a flower delivery guy. Can you take these up, too? Yeah, and he all dies He's kind enough for that he gets into the hospital room and he ends up grabbing like the breathing tube and cutting it with his Knife, it's the wrong person just kind of sits there and just watches her die One of the nurses actually sees him he stabs her and kills her he escapes without actually finishing the job He came there to do right so you've got a fucked up twice so he's sitting in the parking lot and Sheila gets in her car and she drives off and kind of get the sense that he's fallen her home And she's walking through her yard and she steps on this baby toy or whatever and starts doing this crying noise Finally see the killer full-on not in the shadows anymore And he's sitting in this diner one of the waitresses comes up to him Would you like to go out some time blows her right off? Eyeing up this other woman and they're kind of making eyes at each other and like what's so good about him? Like he's all old Shady and everything and he doesn't even say a word say a word and yet it's end up picking this woman up just by Yeah, it's like all men. I never knew it was that easy He takes her back. He's wearing some sort of weird plastic You gotta hear it And they kind of get a little intimate and then he gets all super rough pulls out this knife Turns around like stabs the bed and then shows the killer Chilling out with this old man and his flashbacks to when he was a kid and his dad being all weird and being abusive with his mother So you were kind of getting to know what's making this guy tick a little bit. He still hasn't finished the job though Hasn't killed Deborah so he's got to go back to the hospital this time disguised as an orderly kills this groucho Mark's looking guy gets in the Debra's room finally and they finally get like a face-to-face She's all smoking He can't even get to her because as soon as she started screaming people come in and he gets out and escapes Again, yeah without finishing the job fuck the hospital has become a circus at this point There's cops nobody feels safe the nurse Sheila who gets his phone called and all she hears Is that toy that she stepped on earlier? So she knows he's at my house So then she has to go home and confront this guy and we're gonna end it there So if you want to find out what happens with Sheila and Debra And michael ironside as the killer finish watching the movie visiting hours this movie is very underrated critics Shit all over this movie when it first came out. They shat all over. They shat all over it Saying it's just a cookie cutter Slasher movie with no originality, but I don't see that at all No, no, if you watch this movie and you really pay attention to it You'll see that it's actually a very intelligent movie at the time when this came out It was like slasher crazy Everyone is trying to get on that halloween momentum But this isn't your typical Mast killer you get to know this guy and you see him and you see his motives and what made him Turn into a killer. He's a psychopath. It could be anybody. He's the guy in the next apartment That's what makes this movie actually scary You know on an intelligent level and you see him kind of in his own environment You see him in his apartment you see him hang out with his dad Yeah, and all this kind of stuff you never see that in your typical 80s slasher Michael Ironside has a lot to do with how good this movie is because his portrayal of that psychopath is so damn good Yeah, you almost sympathize with him a little bit that scenery is in that laundry room and he's like Having that weird trance and there's a great scene where he like Has to injure himself to get back into the hospital So he downs all these pills and like Tapes up his arm and smashes his forearm on this beer bottle. It's like intense and you feel it like And william shatner actually auditioned for that role Yeah, and never got it because well, Michael Ironside is probably really the better actor Like the better fit for this movie imagine this movie with shatner is that role It'd be a different movie and shatner does not shat it up too much Not no blows its load pretty much right away Whatever you know who the killer is you see in this face and they take their time Like every time he gets into a place and he's gonna kill somebody they get build up that suspense And he has all these little corks too like he doesn't have a mask But he's got these other little things like that squeeze ball and that bell He wears a necklace that has like a little bell on it So you can kind of hear them another cool thing about this movie is that you kind of have two final girls left in this Right, they're pretty strong female leads, which is pretty rare Actually, you seem to care about the nurse who is not really the main character more than the main character Yeah, yeah, it's kind of neat. They kind of turn that a little bit. They turn the tables at the end It's like oh shit. I didn't even care about devra If you're a fan of slashers and want something a bit different It's a bit more down to earth down to earth smart more based in reality We'll definitely check out visiting hours. It's a canadian classic Even just for iron-sized performance alone It's worth the watch. This is a refreshing movie really kind of akin to I think a little bit silence of the lambs Yeah, where you get to know the killer a lot Totally kind of ahead of its time as far as the narrative of the slasher Yeah, and going against the grain right through all the all the shit that was coming out in 82 Exactly. Well, please check out visiting hours and until next time Keep drinking