Jake: And multiple personality disorder may be the technical explanation for what you hear in the session recordings, but holy mackerel this stuff is creepy. That’s how you get mileage on your creep factor. There are 9 recorded sessions (hence the title of the movie, dickass), and Mike makes sure to listen to each while in the asylum’s deep, dank basement away from the others. Mark: Helping matters is a set of reel-to-reel recordings that Mike finds early in the film, documenting rehab sessions for a woman with repressed traumatic memories and multiple personality disorder. Flat out, the place just starts to get under your skin. Its general calm works to build a sense of dread.
This thing’s bread and butter is in the use of its dilapidated insane asylum of a setting. Jake: Definitely not, but that was never the point.
#Session 9 movie movie#
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good sequence, but no one is going to call this movie “high octane.” Literally nothing of note happens until about 50 minutes in, and even then it’s basically just a dude yelping after seeing a shadow move around in the background of a shot. There is an incredibly slow build in this movie. Much like where you live, the psychological weight of this script takes its sweet time to build. Mark: Well you live in a nightmarish hellscape so I’m going to go with true. It feels like every fucking horror movie takes place in a rough 100 mile radius around where I currently reside. In fairness, It’s probably not much different from the apartments where I do live, which brings up an interesting point. Pretty sweet place to film a movie, but I definitely would not want to live in those apartments. It is a historically significant haunted place and was a source of inspiration for both HP Lovecraft and Stephen King. Jake: For those unaware, Danvers is a real place… or at least it was until was essentially demolished and turned into apartments in 2005. The head dude of the group is down-on-his-luck Gordon who needs this job to keep company afloat, which causes him to cut corners on his quote. To keep things moving, the movie follows the asbestos abatement crew of Phil, Gordon, Hank, Jeff, and Mike as they clean out the guts of Danvers State Insane Asylum for future development. Mark: So David Caruso drinks at a bar that lazily leaves its Halloween decorations up year long.
So congratulations on your lovely summer romp of a pick. Beyond that, where do you get that this is autumnal? I’m pretty sure this movie happens in the middle of the summer. Mark: Figures that you wouldn’t give mortality itself a perfect 10. In general, I like themes and I’m still going for the autumnal thing here, so it seemed to fit the bill. It likely happened during one of our October horror-a-thons we did in college, but I can’t confirm. Anyway, though I can’t remember where I saw it, I’m in pretty much in the same boat of having seen this awhile back. Scare factor rating for Jake’s mortality: 9.5. Has Netflix been around that long? I think I’m more scared by how frequently I hear/see things that make me feel old these days than I am by any horror movie. Why’d you pick this one Jake? How’d you know about it? I paid very little attention to it at the time and as a result remembered almost nothing of it. I first saw this movie 7 or 8 years ago when it was freely available on Netflix.
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