Synopsis

In the beginning, THE OFF SEASON appears to be the story of a young couple from New York City moving up to Maine to get away from it all. Soon, strange things begin to happen in the one-room apartment that they occupy—things that the once close couple cannot discuss with each other. This is not a typical ghost story resulting from a tragic death, but a tale of a place haunted by guilt and the fear of abandonment.

Official Review

Set during the winter in Old Orchard Beach, Maine (and filmed there as well), “The Off Season”, from Larry Fessenden’s Scare Flix division of GlassEyePix, is an eerie ghost story about loneliness and abandonment. A young couple from New York, Kathryn Bennett (Christina Campenella) and Rick Holland (Don Wood), “get away from it all” at an old residential motel, The Viking, at the summertime resort in order for Rick to work on a play. You know things aren’t going to go well when their next door neighbor is played by Angus Scrimm (“Phantasm”) and as they are moving in, the first room they are given has a bathroom covered in feces. Then, they are moved to Room 13 (another bad sign) where Kathryn hears a spectral voice calling her and later finds what appears to be a large bloodstain on the sheets of their bed. …Read More