Question

I planned to come onto the Visiting Hours board this week because it is the 25th anniversary of its release. I do remember when it was out in theaters in late May and June, 1982 (I was 14, had just gotten out of 8th grade for the summer and completed junior high school). And I wanted to go see it then, but my mother did not take me. However, we got our first VCR and joined our first video store in late November, 1982, six months later, and she brought me three movies on DVD for Christmas that year, and this was one of them. She said it was a movie I'd wanted to see last summer but did not get to, and I immidiently thought it was Visiting Hours. I then watched it alot on our VCR with this tape through the 1980s (we sold it at a yard sale in May, 1991). But though it was never on my top movies list, I did like it well, and thought it was good, suspenseful, exciting, and had a strong plot and storyline (more so than most movies of this genre). And I also remembering thinking it had a very unusual cast for a slasher movie-saying it may be the only horror movie that has an all star cast (in William Shatner, Lee Grant, Michael Ironside, Linda Purl-she was big then). So yes, I think it is definitely worth watching, and now would be a great time to at its 25th anniversary. And with it now out on DVD I hope to see it again soon on that. I may feel the same way you do if I see it again soon BridgeE987, as I'm 39 now (you apparently were born in 1969, and saw it in 1985?). But I don't think that will be the case, because my favorite and least favorite movies are virtually unchanged from what they were since the early 1980s, and I still feel the same way about nearly all now that I did when I first saw them.

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