As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
View MoreA lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
View MoreEasily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
View MoreGreat story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
View MoreThis movie was creepy and had all the right plot points and steady character revelations. Asylum movies generally revolve around the same kind of plot points but this movie was unique.
View MoreOne of my favorite movies by far, Session 9 takes it's viewers on a journey into sick minds. It's subtle, and beautiful. This is not a movie you watch, but more of a movie you experience. If you are expecting to see your typical blood and gore horror flick, you'll be disappointed. Session 9 is real, it's creepy, it gets deep under your skin and stays with you. Add to that the fact that this gem was filmed in the notorious and long abandoned Danvers State Hospital... makes your skin crawl. Read up on the history of Danvers before watching the movie... it'll make it that much better.
View MoreWhoever thinks Sony's 24P HD video should be used for anything but YouTube, should be deported.Wow. What a waste. An incredible location, qualified actors, an actual budget and an idea that could've been a contender all squandered by amateurish filmmaking.Yes, the acting was decent – at times, and the location was amazing, but what did this film in for me was the use of the 24P HD video it was shot on. Immediately, that was a distraction and this looked more like a student film, or even a pitch, than an actual movie. Had they used real film and spent a little more time on the script, this could've been a fantastic movie.Basically, several men with backstories someone actually thought was clever take a job on cleaning out asbestos from a defunct mental institution. Tensions sort of rise when they give themselves a week for a month job and some of the staff is not qualified. Make that, most of the movie you just see everyone just stand around, take long lunch breaks or look pained into the camera. So, really, this staff might as well been appointed by the current White House in 2017.OK, so things get tense as one member feels he should bring in a replacement asbestos-buster and another man struggles with his past. The movie goes on too long, it's obvious where it got its inspiration and I kept expecting so much more with what these filmmakers were gifted with. Can't even remotely recommend this because how it was cheaply shot and badly written – so much so, I had to keep rewinding and skipping back to previous scenes to try and figure out what they were trying to convey.Skip Session 9. While completely different, just watch District 9. At least that movie's to the 9s. ***Final thoughts: I asked one of my closest friends, a professional movie critic and radio/podcast host a question for his next show on the style of this film and mentioned how almost unwatchable this movie was because of it. At the time, I didn't know it was shot on Sony's 24P HD video and I will let him know now. He jumped at the chance to answer this next week and I cannot wait to hear his response. Tune into Fat Guys at the Movies with host, Kevin Carr, on/after May 5th for his take on this terrible (my opinion) style of filmmaking.
View MoreDon't get me wrong, I honestly love how movies can be set in an abandoned mental asylum but I didn't think this movie was working around it enough. I would rather if the storyline wasn't too slow so that we could be able to see the past and being able to scare the living daylights out of the men!I also didn't like the guys attitude on how they were saying that the patients were "a bunch of loonies" or "just nuts". Any patient who was in a mental institution had either a disability or just Mental health, it just made me annoyed and shocked that they could get away of making fun of those poor innocent people being treated completely poorly! I really just thought this movie was rather lazy, boring and a bit unflattering!
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