Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 65
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 25
Relying more on atmosphere than gore, Session 9 is effectively creepy.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 11
Relying more on atmosphere than gore, Session 9 is effectively creepy.
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Writer/director Brad Anderson, known for whimsical romantic comedies like Next Stop, Wonderland, was inspired by the astonishing, creepy visage of an abandoned mental hospital in Danvers, MA, to make the intense psychological horror film Session 9. The film stars the redoubtable Scottish actor Peter Mullan (from Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe) as Gordon Fleming, a new father struggling to keep his asbestos removal company afloat. Desperate to bring in some money, the normally deliberate and careful
Aug 10, 2001 Wide
Feb 26, 2002
USA Films
All Critics (71) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (25) | DVD (16)
A great setting in search of a decent horror film to fill it.
The movie's misplaced psychological emphasis is matched by its stubble-scraping visual style.
For a while there, the film has us going.
The story doesn't quite pay off, characters are underwritten and the surprise ending is contrived and unconvincing.
A spine-tingler.
The final illuminations ... are a poor return on nearly two hours of ear-buckling, eye-stabbing incoherence.
Danvers State Hospital: a huge building, rotting from within... Session 9 without this building is simply inconceivable.
Session 9 is heavy on mood and light on narrative substance, but the pervasive sense of dread that it sustains trumps the slightness of plot.
Playing to a classier tune, the film is one that is immersive even in its understatedness, weaving a tale that is all the more effective because of how believable it is.
One of the best horror films of 2001 ...
Brad Anderson cria um forte clima de suspense e conduz o filme com segurança - até que, a 15 minutos do final, o roteiro entra em modo de auto-destruição.
Atmospheric chills and some solid performances ... keep the tension up for a while, until the nasty and disquieting finale.
If ever a place needed a horror movie made about it, it is the abandoned Danvers State Mental Hospital in Massachusets ... utterly chilling, and will stick with you for days
Tries to be a back-to-basics thriller without the special effects, buckets of blood and evil dolls that talk. Unfortunately, the filmmakers forgot to replace the horror-film formula with a plot that makes sense.
Horror movie that lets its location do all the work.
It's never cheap, but it's also never quite as scary as it thinks it is; the buildups invariably lead to letdowns.
I'd have to say it's fairly effective.
A deft exercise in atmospheric horror and insanity.
A hazmat crew removing asbestos from an abandoned asylum uncover secrets about the long-dead but deeply disturbed residents in this slow-burn psychological horror. What's creepier than a crumbling building full of ghosts? A crumbling building full of schizophrenic ghosts.
January 15, 2012
Super Reviewer
This movie gets inside your head and rattles you from the inside out. It moves a little slowly, but it's so insidiously creepy that it's easily worth it. One of the best horror movies out there. It's about an asbestos removal team that goes into an abandoned, condemned insane aslyum to clean it out, and one of the guys
March 22, 2006Super Reviewer
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