Offseason(2022)
2022 · Mickey Keating · 83 min
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.
Drama · Horror · Mystery
5.2128 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Offseason scares
It opens like a quiet mystery, with a woman driving to a small island town to check on a grave, and slowly warps into a foggy, dreamlike nightmare where the rules of the place stop making sense. The pacing is patient and disorienting, favoring long stretches of unease, strange townsfolk, and a sense of being cut off from the world over quick scares. It leans hard into mood and dread rather than blood, with a cursed, otherworldly feeling hanging over everything. This is one for people who like their horror slow, moody, and a little abstract rather than fast or gory.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Offseason rates psychological 5/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 12 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 25 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 70 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, foggy drift into unease that steadily tightens into a sustained, nightmarish crescendo by the end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4.
How scary is Offseason?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Offseason rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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