![]() ![]() David Caruso, who quit TV’s NYPD BLUE in the first season to do movies, does a superb job as Phil. Integral to this is Mike’s fascination with an old psychiatric case, which provides the explanation for the movie’s strange title. The tension mounts higher from there until the movie’s bloody ending.Īnderson builds tension and horror mostly through sound effects and shots of the hospital’s dark hallways and spooky rooms, as well as the dramatic relationships among the characters. This confirms Phil’s suspicion that Gordon should have hired someone else other than Hank and leads to conflict between him and Gordon. When Hank goes back to the ominous building one night to retrieve his coins, he sees a shadowy figure lurking in the distance and doesn’t show up for work the next morning. Rounding out the group is: Mike, a would-be attorney who starts listening to scary interview sessions with one of the psychotic patients who used to inhabit the hospital Hank, a cocky lothario who stole Phil’s girlfriend and who finds some valuable old coins hidden away in the building and, Jeff, Gordon’s inexperienced, rock-and-rolling young nephew who’s afraid of the dark. Phil’s also increasingly worried that Gordon is losing his concentration, which will affect the $10,000 bonus they get if they finish in one week. ![]() Session 9 movie movie#Shot at the historic, abandoned Danvers Mental Hospital near Boston, the movie hints not only that Gordon, the boss of the group, is very upset about something, but also that Phil, Gordon’s longtime associate, is increasingly resentful toward and irritated by his fellow co-workers. Written and directed by Brad Anderson, the story focuses on five men removing asbestos and other hazardous materials from a huge, rambling mental hospital abandoned in 1985. Instead, it relies more on building psychological terror and drama rather than spending all of its time showing how the killer stalks and slaughters his or her hapless victims. SESSION 9 is not your typical psychotic killer movie. ![]() Regrettably, the movie succumbs to excessive disturbing violence at the end. In a clever twist at the end, the script tells viewers that evil lurks in “the weak and the wounded,” a category which includes all people. Ultimately, SESSION 9 is a treatise on the nature of evil. Until its violent ending, SESSION 9 builds tension mostly through sound effects, images of long dark corridors and spooky rooms, and the drama unfolding between the five men. ![]() Gordon’s inexperienced, rock-and-rolling young nephew rounds out the cast. Tension mounts between Gordon and Phil as a fourth worker, Mike, becomes obsessed with listening to spooky psychiatric sessions with a psychotic patient. Eventually, one of the workers, Hank, disappears after looking for treasure in the building one night. Shot at the historic, abandoned Danvers Mental Hospital near Boston, the movie hints not only that Gordon, the boss of the group is very upset about something, but also that Phil, Gordon’s associate, is increasingly resentful toward and irritated by his fellow co-workers. SESSION 9 is a psychological horror movie about five men removing asbestos and other hazardous materials from a huge mental hospital abandoned in 1985. ![]()
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