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Summary: An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins. (imdb)
A little slow for the first half or so, where it pretty much leaves you asking what the film's actually about. Then it gets pretty good, always a little spooky (those insane asylums always are), also a little confusing, but overall quite alright.
this is a weird movie. it seems to want to be about multiple personality disorder, but most of the plot and dialogue is about the dangers of being an asbestos worker. it's visually pretty nice, but the story is very dull, and seems to think it's smarter than it is.
Now THIS is a true horror/suspense/thriller. Had me glue and sweating through the entire movie. The acting was great, and the plot, fantastic. If you like suspense/horror, def. check this out!
It isn't scary (although one claustrophobic scene was surprisingly good compared to the dullness of everything before it) and the characters are boring. This was just an average movie that is watchable but nothing worth thinking about once it's done.
This proves that movies can scare the crap out of you without actually showing anything scary. Session 9 uses lures us into its atmosphere with its eerie mood. Before we know it, we're scared to death and we don't even know why. The sign of a well crafted horror film.
I think what makes Session 9 so odd is that it keeps its very mystery as much a secret as it does its solution, eventually revealing both at once to the effect of great confusion and little satisfaction. It rather meanders until then, trying very hard to build dread and tension, mainly through scenes where expectedly jittery old tape recordings are played. The recordings are psychiatric interviews of a blatantly cliché and unrealistic caricature of a split personality, so they don't do the job.
A lot of people don't like this as it's lower budget and think the story meanders and is unbelievable. I say fuck that, low budget psych horror forever.
Dreadful. I mean it is full of dread. There was a scene in this movie, that as I sat in my friends living room in total darkness, I thought, "This is so scary, it's going to change me. I won't be the same after this." It didn't live up to that by a longshot, but it had me there for a bit, and that sort of thrill doesn't come often.