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.
Acting
Michael Ironside's ice-cold predator—seldom matched in slasher history.
Production
Montreal hospital becomes claustrophobic maze of fluorescent dread.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI brutality that landed it on the UK's infamous video nasty list.
Director
Jean-Claude Lord
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in the UK as a 'video nasty,' it was later acquitted when courts realized its violence was against misogyny, not for it—though that reading remains hotly debated.
Director Jean-Claude Lord originally wanted Brian De Palma's visual style; instead he accidentally pioneered the 'Canuxploitation' hospital horror subgenre that influenced later films like Halloween II.
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