And it didn't hurt that the film actually DOES have a slasher-esque feel in its third act, as the crew is picked off one by one by an unseen assailant - Jeff's death even has a Harry Manfredini-esque screech playing over it (and dies like Friday the 13th's Steve Christy, recognizing a friendly face and even greeting his killer).
Watching again, and for the first time in years, I realized I might actually like the film more than The Shining, a similar story about an infamous location's history worming its way into the fragile mind of our protagonist. As we learn on the Blu-ray's bonus features, the crew did almost no set dressing - apart from the obvious things they brought to the table (the characters' cleaning equipment, photographs that end up on walls, etc.) Why Session 9 is the scariest film you can watch this Halloween The Wolf of Snow Hollow director-star Jim Cummings talks about his love for, and fear of, the 2001 horror movie.
And now you're entering spoiler territory, so go the hell away if you haven't seen this movie yet (and shame on you - it's fifteen goddamn years old at this point!). Like I said earlier, these sort of movies usually focus on a female character (or at least a husband and wife pair), so the all but non-existent female presence makes it not only rather unique, but scarier in a way - when alpha males like John Kelly and Craig McDermott are quickly subdued by the film's villains, what chance do the rest of us have? For once it wouldn't be total bullshit! Session 9 is filmed entirely at the location save for the occasional brief shots of the characters at home or at a bar. If they hadn't torn the building down, I'd be pushing for the (seemingly defunct) Stanley Film Fest, held at the famous Overlook Hotel, to relocate to the Danvers State Hospital. It's a great film, although the setting and the cinematography are what really makes it for me.One thing I don't like about it is the semi-fictionalized information about when and why DSH was shut down. GHOSTBUSTERS! But the hospital lives on in Session 9, which (per the IMDb, don't yell at me if this is wrong) is one of only two films that were ever shot at the notoriously creepy location*, which was old enough to be named the rather un-PC Danvers State Lunatic Asylum at one point, and is rumored to be the birthplace of the pre-frontal lobotomy technique. If you're reading without seeing the film yet you might have noticed a distinct lack of female names in these descriptions. worked like gangbusters on me. **This subplot was inspired … It's still a pretty fantastic immortalization of the architecture there.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that another possible non-ghost explanation for Gordon hearing "Hello Gordon" in Simon's voice when he is looking at Mary's room/wheelchair for the first time in the film, is that Gordon may have been a previous patient at Danver's State Hospital, where he met Mary and where he heard her Simon schtick. In those sadly rare instances, the film can produce the effect that comes naturally to people like my wife, who tensed up at the mere sight of the Blu-ray case when it came in the mail (she frequently cites it as one of the movies that terrifies her - and she once took a trip to the hospital prior to us dating). Especially for the horror genre, which tends to make the female characters the more well-rounded ones, particularly in psychological/supernatural types such as this - the studio version of this movie would focus on Gordon's wife, alone at home while her husband went off to some hazily-defined job.
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