Browsing through Netflix, I was looking for a decent horror film that would hold my concentration for 90 minutes or so. Having seen a number of horror films, more often bad than good, I'm beginning to lose my patience with a lot of them.
Session 9 kept me wondering what would happen next. Good. The synopsis from IMDB is this:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
The strength of this film is it's back story, which a horror tale of this ilk should have. Take for example, The Shining. A film which takes its time to plant seeds and give you little bits of information, adding more each time, until the climax, where - it's already under your skin and you can't escape from it.
I found Session 9 to be very similar in that vein. I liked the subtle tone of the film and that it wasn't dwindling, despite it's slow pace. Some people might lose their patience at the film, as there isn't really an identifiable "villain" until towards the last of the 2nd act, but that, perhaps is what kept me going. I wasn't sure how things were going to turn out. Ghosts? Psychos? Were the team already in the mental institute? Or perhaps they were all figments of one of the character's imagination?
The climax for me was a little bit disappointing, as I felt they could've pushed the boat out a bit further. Again, I refer to The Shining that builds up to it's bat shit insane final sequence. The climax here was not particularly terrifying, shocking or even all that surprising.
A decent effort for a low-budget horror film, perhaps one to watch during the early Halloween season as a warm up.
An enthusiastic
THREE FUCKS
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