Instead of movie night this week, we had our annual Halloween party. So I've been trying to find time all weekend to watch a movie to review. I forgot how hard it is for me to find free time if it isn't previous designated. Luckily for the sake of this blog, I got sick...on Halloween (as I seem to do every year), and found some time to watch a movie I've had on my que for Netflix for nearly a year: Session 9. I figure, A) it's Halloween B) I need to get this movie off my que!
This one is going to involve a little bit of background. As I've stated in the past, I'm weird. To further solidify this, I LOVE abandoned mental institutions. I haven't figured out quite what draws me to them, but I love them. Furthermore, I love Batman and H.P. Lovecraft. So H.P. Lovecraft wrote about Arkham Sanitarium which is believed to be based on Danvers Asylum, the setting for Session 9. The Batman Arkham asylum is based on the Arkham Sanitarium. This was my one and only draw to this movie. I wanted to see the institution, especially since a few years ago (2005) they tore down Danvers and built apartments on the lot. And, in creepy story telling fashion, they had "mysterious" fires that burned down a good bit of the apartments.
The plot is a little less interesting. Some guys who do asbestos removal are hired to do a job in the abondoned asylum. The institution starts to do it's damage, big suprise.
Things I Liked:
1. The Hospital. They actually filmed in the Danvers asylum. Apparently it was only a very small portion of it, but all the same, I like it!
2. Story. It was actually a very intersting story, it just wasn't done quite as well as I would have liked.
3. Jurian Hughes. The voice of Mary Hobbes. She does a great job switching between voices. For some reason, some adults are able to do creepy children very well.
Things I Disliked:
1.Suspense. Fail. You think I would learn. Read movie description. If it says "suspense" in any form...do not watch it. Nope, not me. I never learn.
2.Confusion. I understand wanting to unsettle or leave your audience slightly in the dark but this movie was a little too confusing for me. It was all over the place. This movie couldn't seem to figure out what direction it wanted to go in and stay that way.
3. Music. At the end there is this random twinkling of very kiddy sounding music that does not fit anything in this movie at all. It was only a few seconds, but it was enough to seriously bother me.
Overall this movie was okay. Nothing I would ever look to watch again. It has it's good ideas, I just don't care for the execution. There was nothing scary about it. It was even slower than Alien and The Thing. The story was splotchy but I enjoyed the general idea. Characters were mostly two dimensional and the only one with any real depth has some vague references to something we never find out what ACTUALLY happened.
On IMDB this movie got a 6.7, and I agree with that. Though, I'm not even sure who exactly this movie would cater to. *Sigh*
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