{{For-text|the J.Cole album|''The Off-Season''|the television series|''The Offseason''|other uses|Off Season}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Off Season | image = Poster of the movie The Off Season.jpg | caption = | director = James Felix McKenney | producer = Larry Fessenden, Glass Eye Pix | writer = James Felix McKenney | starring = {{plainlist| *Christina Campanella *Don Wood *Ruth Kulerman *Angus Scrimm }} | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Lionsgate Home Entertainment | released = {{Film date|2004}} | runtime = 89 mins | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''The Off Season''''' is a 2004 independent horror film written and directed by James Felix McKenney and produced by Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387460/ |title=The Off Season (2004) ⭐ 2.8 {{!}} Horror |language=en-US |access-date=2024-09-24 |via=m.imdb.com}}</ref> It was distributed through Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
==Plot== A New York couple, Kathryn and Rick, move to a motel in Maine during the off season, to get away from their hectic routines and so that he can write. They discover their room is haunted by the ghosts of murdered guests, and their experiences drive them apart.<ref name=NYT>Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114210309/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/328878/The-Off-Season/overview "The Off Season (2004)"], via ''The New York Times'', archived from [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/328878/The-Off-Season/overview the original] on November 14, 2007.</ref><ref name=Reel>[http://www.reelfilm.com/maphor1.htm "Three Horror Films from Maple Pictures"], ''Reel Film Reviews'', 2005. Retrieved September 27, 2023.</ref><ref>[http://www.glasseyepix.com/html/offseason.html "The Off Season"], Scare Flix, Glass Eye Pix, retrieved September 27, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://mubi.com/en/us/films/the-off-season "The Off Season"], ''MUBI'', retrieved September 27, 2023.</ref>
==Cast== *Christina Campanella as Kathryn Bennett *Don Wood as Rick Holland *Angus Scrimm as Ted *Larry Fessenden as Phil *Ruth Kulerman as Mrs. Farthing *Brenda Cooney as Nora *Jamie Sneider as Stacy *Jordan Kratz as Kurt
==Production== {{unreferenced section|date=September 2023}} ''The Off Season'' was filmed in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a town that neighbors the one in which writer and director McKenney grew up and shot his first feature, ''CanniBalistic''.
==Reception== One reviewer considered the film "suffer[ed] from a distinct feeling of pointlessness" and the performances were "amateurish".<ref name=Reel/> It has low user ratings on the Internet Movie Database.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387460/reviews/?ref_=tt_ov_rt "The Off Season (2004)": User reviews], Internet Movie Database.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0387460}} *[http://glasseyepix.com/project/5004/ Official web page], Glass Eye Pix
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