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Subject: Jaded reviewers
Date: Apr 4, 2002
I'm tired of reading reviews written by seen-it-all, jaded reviewers who seem to have forgotten what it's like to actually go into a movie and watch it for what it is instead of looking for every little thing that could possibly be wrong with it.
I'd never heard of "Session 9" before a month ago. I saw it sitting on the shelf, picked it up and read the description on the back and thought it sounded good. Apparently, so did a lot of other people because it took me nearly a month of waiting before it was ever available.
I watched it with my wife, in the dark, and it scared the living crap out of us both. Horror movies these days, for the most part, are pure crap. This one is different. It pulled off the big scare and built mega tension without the aid of any fancy CG work. The movie doesn't so much scare you as it makes you scare yourself, using basic human fears such as fear of the dark and claustrophobia to create the atmosphere. The excellent soundtrack only intensifies the tension.
The session tapes are an integral part of the movie, almost a sub-story, but they serve to illustrate the parallels between Gordon's and Mary's situations. Both were hurt by someone close to them accidentally and both reacted to the events in the same way.
What I came away with from the movie was that it may be entirely possible that "Simon" was a possessive demon rather than an alternate personality. His was the only voice that didn't sound like a simple variation of Mary's authentic voice. When asked the question, "Where do you live?", the other alters named body parts such as the eyes and tongue. Simon, when asked the same question, answered, "I live in the weak and the wounded.", implying that he/it could live in anyone who fit that description and was not confined to Mary's body only.
The very ending, when Gordon's flashbacks are fully realized, left me feeling more disturbed than any movie ever has. And it did it through aural cues only rather than SHOWING the audience what had happened. How the reviewer came to the conclusion that Gordon was a "crazed maniac hacking people to bits for no reason" is beyond me. In my opinion, the gore factor in this movie is extremely low.
The cast was great and all of them created believable characters. I rate the movie 5 out of 5. Go rent it today. The DVD has a featurette about Danvers Asylum that when watched BEFORE the movie, will enhance the movie for you. . .at least it did for me.
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