Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Movie Review - Session 9

Session 9 (2 of 5): Session 9 centers around five hazardous materials workers who are cleaning asbestos out of an abandoned mental illness hospital. One of the workers finds some old tapes to listen to that chronicle the sessions that a mentally ill patient had with her doctor. As the patient’s story is slowly explained, one of the workers disappears and other things start to happen that make the workers start to question each other.

That’s all I will bother telling you about, because you’ll never watch this movie. At least I hope you won’t. Session 9 is boring with no real payoff or scares. Although its tone is generally creepy, as a whole the film feels more like a poorly produced made for TV movie. The film was shot in a real life abandoned mental hospital, but the weak story and scares sure don’t justify the expense this production probably went to in order to shoot at that location. There are maybe three creepy scenes in this movie and only one of them really scared me.

Other than that it is an utter waste of two hours. Although, the film is generally eerie and tense throughout, there is no payoff that makes it worthy of your time. What should have been a very cool premise for a horror movie was ultimately handled poorly and turned into a less than stellar film.

4 comments:

Movie Guy #2 said...

Was this ever in the theatre? Or is this a Netflix pick from years ago? I have never even heard of it. It sounds like one I would have flocked to see.

Movie Guy #1 said...

Yeah, I never saw it come out in the theatre. This was a Netflix recommendation since I was watching so many horror movies last October. It sure sounded cool, but it has a distinct "direct-to-DVD" feel.

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