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It is difficult recommending a horror film to someone. I find people have very different tastes in what scares them. To many, horror is a guy wearing a mask killing everyone at a slumber party. To me, that's a dumb slasher film. If you're a fan of psychological horror...SEE THIS FILM! Session 9 is up in the same ranks with The Shining. Every moment inside the Danvers State Mental Hospital was chilling. The writers actually wrote the story for the location. They could have easily filmed Mary Poppins inside that building and it still would be terrifying.

This movie is a slow burn. Chilling atmospheric horror. I'm wondering why so many thought it was dull or boring. It's not a slasher Friday the 13th type movie. More like The Shining type of psychological horror. If only Stanley Kubrick has made this it would be up there with the best horror movies ever. Don't get me wrong, it's an excellent horror movie. Watch it in the dark and you'll be squirming in your seat.

Cheesy introduction lines, unnecessary jokes and giggles from the security guard in the beginning, those are just poor excuses to tell the hospital's eerie past to the audience. Despite having a very limited time for the job, all the characters takes their time to discover the building instead of working. Also Hank's music player has a very good battery saving i guess, it can play music for days nonstop. A nice plot for a clichéd asylum horror, but i was expecting a better, stronger ending. It has a weak start and a weak ending, a poor connection with the Mary Hobbes case (Simon should have been a little bit more dense maybe). In contrast to those, this movie do not rely on cheap thrills or stupid shock moments, it is definitely not a teenager calamity type of movie which is a good thing. In a few words; I will not remember this movie a few days later..

A leisurely-paced but very effective psychological thriller. Keeps you guessing throughout.

Found 'Session 9' while searching for hidden gems I may have missed over the years. Thanks for the internet. I nearly passed on it because the storyline on paper sounded dumb. Asbestos workers? Really? But I gave it a go. Oh my. I was grabbed by "Hello Gordon" ...and then I stayed stiff with fear from then on.