The Off Season

2.7
2004 1 hr 30 min Horror

A couple stay in a dingy motel in Maine to try and escape their hectic lives, but are haunted by spirits of previously murdered guests.

  • Cast:
    Angus Scrimm , Larry Fessenden

Reviews

Evengyny
2004/10/28

Thanks for the memories!

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Dynamixor
2004/10/29

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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StyleSk8r
2004/10/30

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Jenna Walter
2004/10/31

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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voldf
2004/11/01

This movie has the feel of a first year college want to be director. The cover art on the box makes it out to be a horror film and if you go to rent it, it will be found in the horror section. Let me tell you, it is NOT a horror film! I'm not really sure how to rate this one because it is so bad. This movie wouldn't even make a good COMIC BOOK and I've seen some really bad ones of those as well. Not that I will give anything away by saying this, but the story has so many holes you could drive a truck through them. The acting is so dry that I found my self falling asleep in my chair when I should have been jumping out of it. Unless you want to waste almost two hours of your life I would stay as far away from this movie as you can.

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kevincoupe234
2004/11/02

This is a movie where afterwards your gonna want to say, "I want my hour and half back of my life." Kinda thing. I agree with the other people who wrote comments about this the only decent actress is the lead Christina Campanella. Some of the nightmares they showed made me jump only when they popped up out of no where.The back noise was annoying I became distracted with that noise, so I missed most of the dialogue which may have made the movie better or worse not sure.If you want to watch it hope for it to come on TV and watch it there or rent it on NetFlix.

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daooat
2004/11/03

My wife and I love horror movies and bad ones at that, but this is failure on all levels.It starts with bad cinematography, as we see the "happy couple" looking for the hotel. The whole exchange is shot from behind each actors shoulder. And throughout the couples check and initial dialogue with the neighbor we hardly get a clear shot of the actors faces, except in the hotel mirror.The first half of the film amounts to a bad retelling on the shining. Jerk of a boyfriend has writers block and becomes a drunk, while the girlfriend supports them both (we see no emotional connection in the actors or reason for us to believe they are even sleeping together, let alone in a relationship). Vaguely odd things happen, a purple coolaid stain on the bed (which we are to believe is blood) comes and goes, the "writer" sees ghosts, and we discover the "writer" isn't really writing.At this point the girlfriend gets sick and so does the plot. The bf freaks out and leaves, and the gf, jobless (because she has been sick for so long), is left to face the supposed evil of the room alone. In the only successful jump scene of the move the gf takes a shower only to find a dirty, gray-haired hippy squatting in the shower behind her.The climatic scene of the film is little more than the ghost of the gf's mother telling her to leave alternated with another ghost telling her to stay and the gf pacing or rolling on the floors.I feel this film is victim of a singular lack of vision on the part of the writer/director/editor. It seems that a lot of promising elements were here, but they failed to be developed by either the writer, the director, or the editor.

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eaglemafia
2004/11/04

My roommate and I rented three movies and this was one of them...We should have saved it for last so that we could watch something funny before we went to bed. It was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.What was the director thinking? This story has been done over and over and over again. And what's with the jumping around so much? It's annoying and...just plain annoying! AND they left room for sequel! WHY?I think my roommate and I are going to throw it out the window. Or maybe we'll just play Frisbee with it. I haven't decided yet. Either way, I'll get some entertainment out of it.Funniest "scary" movie ever.

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