Offseason

Offseason

Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.

  • Released: 2022-03-11
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery
  • Stars: Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake, Melora Walters, Jeremy Gardner, Jess Varley, Amanda Grace Benitez, Eliza Shin, Jonathan Medina, Ken Luzadder, April Linscott, Andrew Vilar, Andrew Varenhorst, Anthony Azar, Larry Fessenden
  • Director: Mickey Keating
 Comments
  • anaraguilar - 10 February 2024
    They thought they could scare us by adding mist to all the scenes.
    I'm 25 minutes into the movie and I am having so much trouble staying focused, it's that boring.

    To put it simply, this is the definition of PRETENTIOUS, because it's not actually scary, it's not interesting, it's really just meh , but they are trying so hard to trick us into believing this is a scary and thought provoking movie.

    Adding mist and scary music, inserting random old ppl talking about nothing, and adding unnatural pauses when ppl speak is just not gonna get the job done.

    I know I haven't watched the whole thing, but I truly believe that if a movie is this boring and pointless after 25 minutes, it doesn't deserve a good rating. Movies are meant to be enjoyable or captivating, if it can't do that from the get go or at least 10 minutes in, then I'm not wasting my time.
  • hoops-53436 - 11 December 2022
    Dumb, and dumber, and dumbest
    Popped up on the Hulu home screen so we decided to watch it. The plot was dumb, the stupid people were dumber, and we were the dumbest for spending two hours watching this POS.

    There is no real connection between the things that are happening and the woman makes the dumbest choices I've ever seen. Puts me in mind of that commercial about people in horror movies making the dumbest decisions- "let's go hide behind the chain saws in the garage." Even for a movie of this genre, there should be some kind of connections between events and occurrences, and sadly there are none whatsoever in this film.

    Plot= dumb. Actions by the main characters= dumber. Us for watching= dumbest.
  • BandSAboutMovies - 18 July 2022
    Offseason
    Look, I've said it before and God knows I'll say it again, but if you leave home, never come back. If your mother dies telling you there's a curse; if your father paints pictures of a dark stranger and a bloody moon and leaves you messages saying to never come back; if you need to fix a will; no matter what, never go home again.

    Director and writer Mickey Keating has made Psychopaths, Pod, Carnage Park, Darling, Ritual and Ultra Violence over the past years and now, he's back with Offseason, which has Marie Aldrich (Jocelin Donahue, always and forever House of the Devil) going back to the coastal town of her birth, a place where her mother Ava Aldrich (Melora Walters) has just passed away in and begged to not be buried within. Now that the tourist island has called her back - her mother's grave was desecrated - she must get in and get out before the small village shuts down and refuses outsiders until the season returns.

    Look, when Richard Brake controls the entrance and exit to your hometown, get out. Get out and never come back. Then again, seeing the relationship that Marie has with George (Joe Swanberg), she doesn't have much on the outside either. But this is a place where the locals stop talking the moment you walk in, where everyone is an outsider if they've left the place behind and where menace hangs in the air. It's a wonder people aren't devoured at the grocery store.

    You may ask, if you're as obsessed by Messiah of Evil as I am - check out our commentary track - is this Point Dume? The streets look the same, the fog feels the same, but this all had to have had a catering budget equal to that classic's entire overall cost, right? Regardless, this has some potent visuals and looming Lovecraftian menace, even if it doesn't really get anywhere by the end. You'll see the close coming and be fine with it - this is technically a gorgeous film - but wonder how this could have surprised you more.
  • edwardtsteele - 10 May 2022
    Horrific Gem
    I did not expect much going into this film but found it very entertaining with a nice Lovecraft overtone. Not for everyone but HP fans would enjoy it.