So in my quest to find more great horror movies I joined Netflix and have been having them send me horror movies as fast as I can watch them. I rented one called "Sessions 9" and was not sure how I felt about it. The main reason I was so unsure is because I live in RI, near the MA border and have SEEN the asylum that the story is set in.
To make a long story short I ended up buying the movie and watching it again. I truly like the film, it seems to stand well on it's own and the story is cohesive. I like the fact that nothing is spelled out and hell if I know if there is even any resolution! How do you guys feel about this movie or can recomend some other ones like it. Thanks in advance everyone!!
CitizenX
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a movie screen"
Alex - A Clockwork Orange
It's grrrrrreat!!!
What did you think of the alternate scenes? I thought that taking them out improved the movie.
Session 9 was a high water mark for those waiting for a welcome return to the well thought out and serious horror movie, and nothing has chilled me more than the closing lines of dialoge...
*quasi-semi-spoiler* (I think)
"I miss my wife....I miss my baby." *shudder*
yes. I had forgotten about the ending scenes. *shudders more* disturbing. Lots of disturbing dialogue in that movie. *semi spoiler:* like when they were describing the crazy rape or whatever (sorry I saw it a while ago). Insane.
Often, in my life, I have the feeling that I've missed something. This was one of those times. However, for some cooky reason, I very much enjoyed the movie. Possibly because it is a departure from the usual slash and hack horror flick, or possibly ignorance really is bliss. Who knows. Blissfully yours.
I watched the film, then let it settle for a bit before going over the deleted scenes and the deleted ending. I think they movie would have been in the bargain bin had the kept that ending!! I think it would have joined the hundreds of worthless films that don't amount to s**t had they kept any of those scenes! I realy liked the creepiness of the whole thing and I liked how nothing is plain and simple, you have to think on it and interpret your own ending. By the way, this is only because I have watched it the other night . . . .but the last lines of the movie are:
BIGTIME SPOILER!!!!
"Where do you live Simon?"
"I live in the wounded and the weak."
Fade to blackCitizenX wrote:
CitizenX
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really
real when you viddy them on a movie screen"
Alex - A Clockwork Orange
A very good film indeed. I watched it when it was released on theatres and I had a great bad time with it. What I liked the most is that they managed to create a real effective horror movie based mostly on reality-like elements. Now that I think of it, it makes a more effective horror movie than many which are based on the supernatural. And that gorgeous setting... (shudder).
Ok, I searched out this thread because I had the opportunity to watch Session 9 the other night. I'll probably watch it again, but I turned it off about halfway through because it was putting me to sleep. Half the movie gone and absolutely nothing had happened. Ok, there was the one part with the guy seeing the figure and then running through the basement corridors, and then I guess he disappeared, but that was about it. I don't consider myself the kind of person who needs an action scene every couple of minutes, but I do like SOMETHING to happen. An hour of watching guys rip up floors and talk about things that may or may not have happened in the past is a little boring. I admit I wasn't paying strict attention to it, but this is one of the few movies where I had no idea what the hell was supposed to be going on. It also didn't help that I accidentally read a couple spoilers on another site that, while not being explicit, gave away some of the things that were happening. Or at least I assume they do, nothing they talked about happened in the first hour.
I think it's one of those movies that's better when you think about it later than when you're watching it. I actually had the same problem as JohnL...it was putting me to sleep while I was watching it. When stuff happened, then damn it was good. When nothing happened, holy crap it was boring. Overall, it was better than the St. Francisville Experiment ripoff I expected.
Brother R
I thought the movie was great. It based it's horror on the suspense created by the atmosphere of the location, and it built up the characters so that you were interested in what happened to them. There was no violence at all, until the very end of the movie. I'll admit, when I first watched Session 9, I was on the edge of my seat at the end, wondering what was going on, and what was going to happen. And come on, one of the main characters has a mullet! If that isn't the sign of a good flick, I don't know what it.
Good points by all. The movie is more of a mood piece and character study than a 'traditional' horror movie (or what f/x focused dreck passes for them in todays day and age) that gains more power when you think back over what happened before and during that week in the asylum.
Creepy and memorable, that - IMHO - is what makes for a great horror story.
Oh, and to follow-up, someone mentioned the deleted scenes. I think the movie is a lot better without them. The whole subplot they cut-out about the homeless woman was pretty lame. Leaving her on the cutting room floor gives the movie a more supernatural feel, rather than having the audience know the shadowy figures in the movie were her.