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Meet the Hardest-Working Serial Killer in Cinema History
Bonus: Learn the techniques of sneaking into hospitals that all the pro killers use
Visiting Hours is short on plot and gets to the point right away. No boring exposition or character development. It's basically a series of scenes involving the killer attacking people or sneaking around trying to attack people. His main target is a newswoman who has done a news story that obviously upset him. This guy should be given the Overachieving Serial Killer and Stalker Award. He is relentless, sneaking into one hospital at least four or five times and killing several other people during his killer recon missions. He does all of this because the newswoman is in the hospital recovering from his attack on her at the beginning of the movie. He desperately wants to finish the job. His methods for getting into the world's quietest hospital include impersonating a flower delivery man and injuring himself so that he is brought to the hospital in an ambulance.
The police and guards are indeed ineffective, as they are in most of these types of movies. I think, however, it might also be a glimpse into the security practices of 1982. You could just walk around anywhere back then. It might not have been a safer world, but people just didn't care as much or weren't as paranoid. At least not until they started watching these types of movies. Visiting Hours may not only be a historical time capsule of security practices but possibly could have impacted the entire security industry in ways we still don’t fully comprehend.
It's not even a good slasher movie. I don't think the movie was filmed in a hospital half the time. The hallways look more like those of a moderately-priced hotel. Visiting Hours is available on Netflix instant watch, so if you're unfortunate enough to have that service, you can watch if you really want to. William Shatner is in it, too. I guess he needed money between Star Trek movies.
Posted by Davey B. Creative on 09/06 • (0) Comments • Permalink
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