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Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Don't even bother with this movie. I can only hope that I'm as lucky as another commenter on here, and get a free rental out of how ridiculously awful this movie was. Just goes to show you: don't judge a book by its cover. The DVD cover made it out to be something relatively enjoyable, and it was the biggest crock of crap I've ever seen. The official website for the movie even mentions the misleading cover... Thanks, guys. How this made it into rental stores, let alone the "horror" section, I'll never know. It's not even bad enough to laugh at. The writer should take some advice from the lead character in his own story, and go out to a bar instead of trying to write film scripts.

The Off Season...sounds like what the director was thinking before he started this production because this is not something I would want on my professional resume. In two words...it sucked. It had its comedic moments, Who says Poo-Poo these days? and a drunk guy who seemed to flip some lady a bird for the better part of 10 minutes. Was there nothing else to pitch to the production company? Oh wait the production company probably gave them a budget smaller than the amount I got for milk money in grade school. I can't believe this movie lasted close to two hours since I personally didn't believe there was 32 seconds of useful material in this horrid farce of a movie. I just threw up a little in my mouth. Nope here comes the rest of it I gotta go.

Leave off without Off SeasonAfter having driven to the Viking hotel in Portland (ME) from Manhattan during the off season, a playwright and his girlfriend settle in to their new home only to find strange things abound. They both begin to experience the strange things, yet neither seem interested in revealing those experiences to each other - for no good reason. The oddities soon take a toll on their relationship physically manifesting mainly against the girlfriend (probably because she doesn't walk around in the hotel room naked like any respectable B-Horror actress should). She suffers dearly getting the paranormal flu (who knew the afterlife was so unsanitary?!), booted from her job (as a part time librarian?), dumped by the boyfriend (for the company of the day drinking town hooligan; a guy that hangs out across the street from the hotel and flips off the manager when confronted - oooooh....scary), and a sweltering shiner (beware of the dangerous library book). No worries for her though because a dead relative that talks through the answering machine (only after the beep) to her will help guide her through the advances of dirty old men wielding small cactus, long haired freaky wet men cowering in the shower (don't get hopes up for any nudity!), and homicidal book smacking psycho chicks. Our heroine triumphs in the end writing her own best seller exposing the exploits of another best selling novelist that co-incidentally lived in the same hotel before she arrived. Believe me when I say I am making this movie sound better than it is. It is an incredibly bad movie that attempts weakly to capture small town colloquialisms by spinning them into a yarn of mystery and horror (which it doesn't). The problem is the writing and the direction. The plot is almost impossible to follow (not in a good way) and is filled with a myriad of ridiculousness (would the makers of this movie please decide if it is cold or warm or what is the actual weather pattern in Portland during the off season! Sheez!). For the psychological thriller fan, the story is not tight and the characters hold no interest. For the B-horror fan, this movie is missing all the elements - no gratuitous nudity, no slashing, and no chasing. The only screams are coming from the people that paid to see this movie. Don't say I didn't warn you!!

How a terrible, terrible movie like this is financed and distributed to video stores is beyond belief. The cover box in the store is completely misleading as you think you are getting a fair to good quality product but you soon realize that this film looks like a film school video with a budget of about 5 hundred dollars and filmed over a weekend - unbelievable. The only reason I sat through it was because some reviewers said it was so bad it was funny...It wasn't, it was painfully bad. Lame dialogue, direction, acting, story - you name it, it was bad, really bad!. I going to try and get my money back from the store that rented this garbage.