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Summary: my husband had to take me for a drive
Review: after i saw this movie, i couldn't sleep the whole night and finally, at 6:00 a.m., my husband rounded me and the dog up and took me for a drive to help me get my thoughts in order. or to calm me down, one of the two."fear is a place" is the catch phrase on the movie poster. even though the acting is superb, the script is tight, i really wish i had just not watched. all night long i kept looking back over my shoulder, as if a piece of the film manifested into my reality and stalked behind me, waiting to jump out from the shadows and grab me. ever wondered what the boogie man really is? the boogie man is...
*stunning
*harrowing
*jaw dropping
*horrific
*terrifying
*lives inside the weak and the wounded
the boogie man... is "session 9".
watch it at your own risk.
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Summary: Wow! Unsettling and Disturbing
Review: I'm a huge horror fan, but lately I've been rather disappointed by most of the films I've seen in this genre... All I can say is, wow! I was very pleased with this movie. It's disturbing, unsettling, and scary, and it stays with you after you've turned it off, like a good horror movie should. There's a particularly creepy scene with a young worker in the basement... There is very little blood in this movie, but it scares you all the same, which takes talent. The terror in this movie is more atmospheric and psychological than physical. If you crave beheadings and gore, this is probably not the movie for you. However, if you just want a genuinely scary experience that will leave you feeling thoroughly unsettled, then watch this movie. The beginning is a little slow, but as the movie progresses, you get more and more ensnared by it, like the worker who stumbles across recordings of a therapy session between a doctor and patient with multiple personalities and then can't stop listening, even making excuses to sneak away and listen. The film unfolds as the tape does, and the movie ends with the ninth therapy session (hence the name). I was expecting a typical workers-trapped-in-abandoned-mental-hospital film, but "Session 9" is anything but typical. There are plenty of twists and turns in this movie, and you'll find yourself confused one minute, and then thinking you have it figured out the next, only to discover you were wrong. "Session 9" breaks away from the cookie cutter mold of many modern horror movies, and the result is, for the most part, terrific.
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Summary: A little too much talking, but unsettling and scary.
Review: I rented this movie because it said on the cover that is was similar to "The Blair Witch Project" which I really enjoyed. This movie was as good and in some cases better than Blair Witch. The acting is superb, for starters. The idea of a dark spirit force existing in a VERY scary abandoned insane asylum was brillant. This asylum was definately a character in the movie. You could not pay me [enough money] to spend 5 minutes in this place! The film is quiet successful in creating a real sense of dread and fear. This is a very unsettling movie. There are parts that tend to drag and there is a lot of talking, but these parts help to define the characters and later to display a kind of descent into madness for each of the work crew. The segments of the movie with the tape recorded sessions with the institutionalized patient are intense and terrifying (I hope this was not a real tape of a real session, because that would be TOO scary!) Overall, if you like to be unsettled and scared, this is a good flick to watch with the lights out...
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Summary: An unsuccessfull attempt at a horror flick.
Review: This is a movie that attempts to be a horror flick, but is actually lacking in a plot. There is a setting, and a basis for what the characters are doing, but the storyline is impossible to follow about halfway into the movie. Scenes jump from one to another, and there is no indication of how the scenes are connected so you are left more frustrated than frightened out of the fact that you don't know what is going on in the movie. The movie doesn't have good acting performances and the story did not have any charactor development.
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Summary: This movie needs a negative 5 star rating
Review: UUck! Horrible!
It pretends to be a real film, but it's just a mess masquerading as a psychological thriller. A completely disappointing waste of time.
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Summary: Psychological Drama / Suspense for Grown-Ups
Review: I rented this thinking it would probably be some sort of Blair Witch-like tale, so I didn't have high hopes. I was completely blown away by the entire film. It is one of the best non-teen horror/drama films I've seen in years. I thought I saw the end coming, but then it went and turned everything upside down with an ending no one can predict. This isn't for the ADD generation. It's slow moving and focuses a lot on setting an eerie mood more than just displaying gore. I actually purchased the DVD immediately after renting it. This is everything Blair Witch 1 and 2 should have been.
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Summary: 2 and 1/2 stars ( out of 4 ) for a good effort.
Review: I was at the video store looking for a trashy horror movie to have a good laugh over. I encountered Session 9, and thought that it actually might not be a half bad movie. A review on the box said it was a "psychological thriller in the style of the Blair Witch Project". So I rented it. I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt for most, if not all, of the movie. I quite enjoyed the psychological elements of the movie, although my friend did note that the characters spent most of the first half of the movie talking. It was interesting talk, at least. I loved the psychological sessions, and particularly the character of Billy. Princess was good, too. Then there was Simon. I'm not sure how much I can say about where the movie went wrong without giving too much away, but I'll try. At the end of the movie it turns out that it wasn't really a psychological thriller at all. Oh, no, no, no. It turns out it was a... * spoiler alert * case of demonic possession. Well, at least it was an excuse to * spoiler alert * kill off most of the main characters. What occurred to me at the movie's end was that the movie had been ambitious, and the director had clearly tried hard to make it a good movie. Good effort. They almost made it.
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Summary: Very Creepy....
Review: Imagine going into an old lunatic asylum after its been closed down for 15 years...a scary thought. Especially walking around in the old tunnels and hall ways and thinking about what all took place. Session 9 is truly a remarkable horror film. It can be compared greatly with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and is all about atmosphere, and a dream like setting. Session 9 uses alot of tracking shots as used in The Shining. A crew of asbestos removers are sent into the old asylum to clean up the place and the weakest one in the party becomes possessed by the asylums twisted past. A must see for any real horror fan.
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Summary: This movie makes you think
Review: This movie depends on ppl with an imagination. It is suspensful and not just another cheap thrill. It had an original story line and it had a great twist. Ppl are so used to watching stupid mindless films like 13 ghosts that they cannot tolerate or comprehend a movie that involves thinking. I really enjoyed this film. I would rate it up there with Sixth sense and the original Psyco.
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Summary: Please watch just once
Review: Many months I read about Sessions 9 on the many movie sites I view. Each had great things to say about it but it was released at selected theaters. The first Tuesday I went out and purchased the DVD and was glad. The plot takes a slow climb bringing the audience with it. Characters are reveiled along with number of unanswerd questions. At the end you will be left sitting in the dark reflecting on what just happened. I was dissappointed to find the dvd was in 2.0 and not 5.1. Still the track is crisp. Seperation of channels is always a plus for scarey movies.
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