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Open Season

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

5.3(22)19741h 45m2

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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Released
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Language
English
  • vietnam
  • sadism
  • gun
  • kidnapping
  • victim
  • revenge
  • murder
  • torture
  • hunting
  • veteran

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Spain, Switzerland

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR1 Nov 1974
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical2 Aug 1975
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical26 May 1975
  • FranceFR

    • PhysicalVHS1 Jan 1981
    • Theatrical18 Aug 1982
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical2 May 1975
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical1828 Oct 1974

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Open Season was released on 28 October 1974.

Audience reviews

2
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    MOVIESandMANIA

    3/26/2021

    Three veterans of the Vietnam War, Ken, Greg and Art, played by Fonda, Law and Lynch respectively, have struggled to reintegrate back into society after their experiences and though furnished with the trappings of middle-class family life, they take an annual trip into the woods to take out their aggression on the local wildlife. Tiring of their haul of deer and squirrels, they turn their attention to human prey, …

  • W

    Wuchak

    10/26/2021

    5/10

    _**Three obnoxious clowns with guns in the backwoods**_ A couple (Cornelia Sharpe & Alberto de Mendoza) is apprehended by three sadistic goofballs (Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law & Richard Lynch) and taken to the wilderness in northern Michigan for some depraved ‘fun.’ William Holden is on hand in a peripheral role. Based on the book by David Osborn, “Open Season” (1974) is a wilderness crime thriller/surv…

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