Open Season (1974)

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

Director:

Peter Collinson

Writers:

Liz Charles-Williams (screenplay), David D. Osborn (novel)

Stars:

Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe, John Phillip Law

Cast

Credited cast:
Peter Fonda	...	Ken
Cornelia Sharpe	...	Nancy Stillman
John Phillip Law	...	Greg
Richard Lynch	...	Art
Alberto de Mendoza	...	Martin
William Holden	...	Hal Wolkowski
Helga Liné	...	Sue
Didi Sherman	...	Helen
Concha Cuetos	...	Joyce
May Heatherly	...	Alicia Rennick
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Simón Andreu	...	Barman
Jerry Boudreaux	...	Niño
Frank Braña
Jaime Doria
Mabel Escaño	...	Waitress

Storyline

Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.

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Plot Keywords:

retarded child | poliziottesco | north american poliziottesco | spanish poliziottesco | switzerland poliziottesco | 

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Taglines:

Meet Ken, Gregg and Art. Two weeks each year they get away... with Everything!

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Spain Switzerland USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

August 1974 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Shoot

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Arpa Productions, Impala

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The screenplay was adapted by author David D. Osborn from his own novel of the same name. The movie credits refer to a work called "The All-Americans" but in actuality the book was simply called "Open Season" (Dial Press, New York, 1974).

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Goofs

When Ken and Artie climb the bluff, Ken is carrying a bolt action rifle. But after they split up and Ken returns to the lodge, he enters the cabin carrying a pump action shotgun. The rifle is never seen again.

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Soundtracks

Casting Shadows
Written and Sung by John Howard

User Reviews

boring, bleak, mean-spirited

I saw this one on a bootleg off a Norwegian (?!) prerecord that was partially letterboxed (about 1.80:1), with subtitles in the lower matte. I ended up fast-forwarding through large portions of it because it was THAT BORING. It reminded me in a lot of ways of "Funny Games", another pretentious piece of s**t movie. They're both sadistic, anti-humanist exploitation pics and shouldn't pretend to be anything else. Don't get me wrong: I like movies that wallow in violence for the sake of violence - as long as they have the courtesy to be at least entertaining. This movie is not entertaining. It made me feel personally abused, much like the victims of the hunters, which maybe is the point, but then why in the f--k would I want to spend 100 minutes of my life enduring that (though, obviously, I did...).