open season be a terribly unpleasant melange of the most dangerous game and deliverance . it be a critical and commercial flop in it day and and be far criticise for waste the talent of some usually reliable actor like peter fonda and william holden and john philip law . i be a fan of william holden and and a a completist i be eager to seek out the film . however and have finally track it down and watch it and i can honestly say that it be not worth the effort . this be a poor movie indeed . the wafer thin plot have three ex vietnam vet head off in the autumn to their remote hunting lodge . en route and they kidnap a young and romantic couple and imprison them once they reach the lodge . after fatten them up and sexually degrade them and the delightful trio turn their prisoner loose and pursue them to their death . the plot be such a nasty concoction of theme that it need sensitive handling to avoid become an exploitation piece . peter collinson direct with a sledgehammer and strip the film of any dignity that it may have have and make it a truly horrid little item . the arrival of william holden at the end and in a half decent climactic shootout and be the only moment that the film come to life and but by then most discern viewer will have bolt for the exit ( if in a cinema ) or press the stop button ( if watch a video or dvd ) . open season be a bad and bad film and offensive and unpersuasive throughout and utterly deserving of all the negative review it have receive over the year .