Session 9

First, this is not a movie for viewers with short attention spans, or those who require overt slasher film cliches to keep them invested. The film is very easy to follow if you’re actually watching it, but it may leave you with a lot of questions about what terrible atrocity you may be capable of when you’re in your weakest moment. What might live inside you when, as they film says, are “weak and wounded”. A specialty crew takes on a massive task of cleaning the antiquated hazardous materials in the walls and ceilings of a dilapidated and abandoned insane asylum. The pressure is on to finish the job on time and friction builds amongst the team. Meanwhile one crew member continues to sneak away to listen to the water damaged session tapes of a psychopathic patient with multiple personalities. As the warped distorted tapes continue to play and the pressure of the dangerous job weighs on everyone, someone or something seems to be stalking the crew. A worker is caught in a long underground tunnel lined with dozens of hazmat suits hung up facing him like headless bodies. The power is cut the darkness engulfs everything as each light fades out and the worker sprints away from being swallowed up by it. A friend and peer stands among a line of bodies and asks his former ally “when are you gonna wake up?”. A man wanders the dark halls dazed with a spike through his head as he mutters over and over “what are you doing here....what are you doing here?” Some of the haunting imagery as the tapes play and the team is fragmented and the truth is slowly revealed. The ending is devastating. Are we evil under the wrong circumstances? Are we victim of some other influence if we crack and lash out in violence? “And where do you live?” the doctor asks. “I live in the weak and the wounded.” Highly recommended, but may not be for everyone.

I don’t recommend this movie to anybody. It doesn’t make sense and it’s hard to follow. I started making my own storyline about what I think is happening in the movie. There was only one good part where you see something and the rest of the movie is full of senseless hard to follow acting that didn’t make sense at all. I would definitely pick a different movie.