1/5/2024 0 Comments Session 9 netflix![]() I suppose it’s politically incorrect to refer to these people as “crazy”, but it sounds a lot better. When it’s revealed who is to blame for all of these things, you wonder whether or not this asylum brings the crazy out of people or if crazy people are drawn to it. Think there’s where they got the name of the movie from or do you think it’s just a coincidence? Anyways, most of the crew start turning on each other, everyone getting more and more agitated, which ultimately leads to the death of members of the crew. ![]() The danger of the asbestos combined with the stresses of Gordon becoming a father and tension with Phil/Hank gets higher and higher the closer Mike gets to the final session, which is session 9. ![]() The more sessions that Mike listens to, the higher the tensions get amongst the crew, which doesn’t get any better when one of them seemingly skips town. Also in the crew are Jeff ( Brendan Sexton III) and Mike ( Stephen Gevedon), who becomes more interested in a series of audio reels of therapy sessions of a woman named Mary Hobbes. One of the people that Gordon brings in, Hank ( Josh Lucas), is currently seeing Phil’s former love interest so the tension between these two is quite high. With his wife having recently given birth, Gordon is desperate for this job and offers to do it in a fraction of the time that his friend and coworker Phil ( David Caruso) thinks the job requires. Gordon ( Peter Mullan) runs an asbestos removal company and has the privilege of being the one to remove asbestos for Danvers State Hospital, one of the largest mental institutions of its kind. Sadly, Danvers State Hospital was torn down so there’s no need to go there in search of any underwear David Caruso might have left behind. I wanted to revisit the film just to be able to cite more specific sources of why Session 9 is such a success and why it stands out as possibly the best horror film that takes place in an asylum. While I was thinking of all the reasons I dislike most asylum based horror films, I couldn’t help but think about Session 9 and all the ways that it does things differently than all those other abandoned mental facility films. I know that there are some films that try to tell the story of a fucked up doctor, and he just so happened to work at this hospital and that’s the reason the events transpire there, but there’s a lot of films that try to heighten the already tense location with those backstories. ![]() As you might have seen in that review, I feel that if your film is taking place in an already terrifying location, you don’t need to add any plot points that involved discussing just how fucked up this place is. I’ve seen countless films that take place in some sort of abandoned asylum or mental facility or medical institution, and almost every single one of these films involves exposition involving why THIS facility has a more disturbing past than any of the others. I recently watched the movie Dark Feed and, although I didn’t particularly enjoy it, I couldn’t really blame the film specifically as much as I am not a fan of the film’s subgenre. ![]()
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