***SPOILERS*** Combination of "the Most Dangerous Game" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" the movie "Season of the Hunted" is about murder and depravity in the wilds of upstate New York,the Lake George region,involving a bunch cannibalistic mountain men who feel that man is not only the most dangerous game in the forest but also the most eatable as well.Answering an add on the internet for a good time in the country New York City fireman Steve and his good buddy former US Army Special Forces vet Frank together with a couple of their friends Al Lenny & Charlie to drive up to Lake George for some hunting fishing and sightseeing. Unknown to them those who are inviting them up there are not interested in their money or even company but only in having them for dinner! That's after hunting them down like wild game in the woods!It's only Frank who gets what's going on but by then three of his friends, Al Lenny and Charlie, have been murdered and gutted by the bloodthirsty, for human blood, mountain men. With only Steve to help him Frank using his knowledge that he gained in the US Army picks off he mountain men, with bow and arrow, one by one beating them at their own game of hunting down human beings! As for Steve it takes a while for him to realize what he's facing which in the end, by refusing to believe what he sees, almost costs him his life!***SPOILERS*** Like in most horror films the end of the movie, when all the mountain men are put to their final resting place, is just the beginning for another round of bloodshed with both Frank & and badly wounded Steve trapped in a cabin in the woods by a deranged psycho whom they thought at first was trying to help them. As it turns out the psychotic maniac is really a friend of the other psychos, the man eating mountain men, that they just took care of. It's then that you as well as Frank & Steve realize that there's more crazed and bloodthirsty lunatic up there in them woods then you've ever imagined possible!P.S The movie "Season of the Hunted" was voted best film of 2003 by the Long Island International Film Expo.

Rugged Vietnam veteran mechanic Frank (an intense and excellent performance by Muse Watson), his amiable firefighter buddy Steve (a likable turn by Timothy Gibbs), wiseguy Al (Lou Martini, Jr.), eager young Lenny (Wass Stevens), and smartaleck Charlie (an amusingly sharp-tongued Tony Travis) run afoul of a vicious family of crazed cannibal hillbillies while embarking on a hunting expedition in the deep woods. Director Ron Sperling relates the absorbing story at a steady pace, maintains a suitably tough and gritty no-nonsense tone throughout, and punctuates the grisly story with startling moments of extremely raw and gruesome in-your-face violence. Phillip "Chick" Faicco's script may be trite, but it still possesses the right wicked ingredients to make for a pleasingly harsh and hard-edged Grade B fright flick. The game no-name cast all deliver acceptable performances. The main characters are well-drawn and engaging. The rednecks are a colorful bunch of sick hick degenerates: Matthew Cowles as grizzled patriarch Mitch, Raynor Scheine as the drawling, laid-back Roy, Patrick Cooley as hulking, boastful chromedome brute Jed, Peter Linari as creepy mute Ben, Lorin Donadio as sexy spitfire Bobbi-Jo, Jefferson Slinkard as the scraggly Wilbur, and Duke Valenti as leering behemoth Jimbo. Ben Dolphin's effectively grainy cinematography and the funky, syncopated score by Ed Terry and Ron Sperling both do the trick. Better still, there's a handy helping of ghastly gore and a decent smattering of gratuitous female nudity and soft-core sex. While this picture starts out really slow and talky, it kicks into thrilling gear once the hunt is underway and overall rates as a welcome and refreshing departure from the usual teens in jeopardy fare. A cool little low-budget horror outing.

Truly hilarious "horror" film.Here's a short synopsis: a bunch of hunting hick friends go on a hunting trip, but end up being hunted one by one themselves by cannibalistic hunters.It's all really lame. The flashbacks to Vietnam are especially tasteless; they look like they were filmed in the director's backyard. The acting is often laughable (watch for when one of the hunting friends gets hit by an arrow; his facial expressions and the weird gurgle-sounds he conjures are absolutely hilarious). Half the time, it looks like it was shot through a paper towel tube. It's just awful in nearly every single way.If you want a laugh, "Season of the Hunted" will provide you the opportunity. I found it in my local rental store, and I encourage you to look out for it.

The movie started OK..I thought it was gonna be like Open waters, low budget movies and yet well directed and produced...The acting, special effects were not very up to standard but again I cant criticize so much as I'm not a professional director or movie maker. BUT what i would critise and punish the editors and directors of the movie was the scene where Frank and Steve are talking sitting down on the woods...You can see on the top of the screen the microphone bulb.....THAT"S completely NON professional....If u wanna put a movie on the screens at least learn how to edit it well...THis one goes for the editors...no complain for the acting, script, or camera effects....