I love this movie but Id have to say Im a bigger fan of the Blair witch project. Session 9 is great but the formulaic ending really drops it down a peg but other than that its great, such creepy atmosphere and the really simplistic score mostly just a few keys on a piano being played and of course the asylum itself make it very unsettling. The tape recordings are great too.

I think S9 was the heir to Blair Witch in terms of the unseen enemy story. Even so I'd guess you may have seen BWP and there's maybe a 50:50 chance you liked it.

Agreed. I can't think of another film that has scared me so much. Seen it numerous times, and I'm frightened and disturbed with each viewing.

Session 9 is what you get when a writer and director understand that scaring your audience is like telling a great joke: it's all in the set-up. This movie is everything that the lazy, disposable horror movies of today are not. That one scene alone (and most people familiar with this film know what I'm talking about) is more terrifying than anything that's come out in the last ten or twelve years. I get shivers up my spine just thinking about it. This is genuinely unsettling stuff.

Nicely written buddyalways nice to hear people liking this movie..brad Andersons finest still..not sure if you will agree,but I watched this again recently and felt a connection with asbestos and evilas in England asbestos..caused many problems to people in the past..hence the removel of this material in many buildings in England..so in this movie..they were trying to remove this materia,but the evil was still around,as Well as all the other evilAnyway was just Something that Came to mind.
As far as a film recommendation..I would check out TRIANGLE..directed by Christopher smith

I totally agree, and funnily enough I'm a huge fan of the Silent Hill games as well, which is partly what lead me to watch Session 9 for the first time about a year ago. I read about the little homage in SH3 (the wheelchair behind the glass) years ago but it took me a long time to get around to actually watching the film, and it instantly became an all time favourite.
I'm someone who finds most movies I attempt to watch aren't worth watching one time yet alone several, but I must have seen Session 9 about a dozen times now. And every single time, I notice things I didn't notice before
The above mentioned ending lines also creep me out every time, not just the words themselves, but the background noise/music that comes on and leads into it, the foreboding shots over the buildings and the perfect and creepily deliberate timing of Simon's last words in the film.
A book could be written about this movie and the possible interpretations I definitely prefer to think of Simon as a demonic entity (after all, "They always do" plus when Gordon first hears the voice after seeing the wheelchair at the start of the film, it's accompanied by the same static background noise as the tapes, which actually becomes audible several seconds before he says "Hello Gordon"), which is something I don't usually find that scary at all in most films, but this one is definitely an exception.

I agree with you. I consider Session 9 to be one of the best films of it's kind. It is slow, creepy, foreboding, and dark. It does not have a happy ending. When the credits are rolling you are still sitting there trying to understand what you just saw and being shocked by it. The final words spoken in film still haunt me after all these years and are perfect for the tone of the film. 'And where do you live Simon? I live in the weak and the wounded..Doc.' Gives me shivers.

The Machinist is pretty good. Same director

Session 9 is very underrated. It's filmed at an Actual Abandoned Mental Institution. Danvers in Massachusetts. It has been destroyed since.

I agree, I think it's the scariest movie I have seen, and I am a big scary movie fan. I honestly had hairs standing on end at moments, because I felt like I knew that place, Danvers, that I had been there before, yet I have never been to Boston.

Cool.

Love your support for the film. I agree but not as strongly.

Yes, this film is just very
disturbing.
It totally gets under your skin.
I would recommend the original Carnival of Souls made in the early 60s with a budget of about $10. If you can get past that, it's very creepy, and makes great use of an old abandoned pavilion.