This movie was creepy and had all the right plot points and steady character revelations. Asylum movies generally revolve around the same kind of plot points but this movie was unique.

After reading the review of one Mals13 who was up voted as the "most helpful" review of this title, i thought i would give it a watch.Mals13 stated that he worked in a video shop and that when people asked him to recommend a good horror movie he would point them in the direction of Session 9. First off, this is NOT a horror movie. It is a psychological thriller with a very minute horror element.He was right about one thing in that the actors all done a good job and that the characters portrayed your every day people not your usual fake, Hollywood trash you see in horror films.Mals states that it is the creepiest horror film he has i seen in years. I say Mals must not be much of a horror fan at all. He even states that the twists are a bit anti-climatic. Then proceeds to rate it 10/10 .. come again?It's a good watch, but not a horror film or a great film imo. It's all been done a thousand times before. Nether the less it is a decent movie worthy of your time if you're into psychological thrillers.But please do not call this a horror movie. Apart from a slightly scary setting of an old asylum (If you'd even call it scary) there is nothing that will leave you scared about this film.

Whoever thinks Sony's 24P HD video should be used for anything but YouTube, should be deported.Wow. What a waste. An incredible location, qualified actors, an actual budget and an idea that could've been a contender…all squandered by amateurish filmmaking.Yes, the acting was decent – at times, and the location was amazing, but what did this film in for me was the use of the 24P HD video it was shot on. Immediately, that was a distraction and this looked more like a student film, or even a pitch, than an actual movie. Had they used real film and spent a little more time on the script, this could've been a fantastic movie.Basically, several men with backstories someone actually thought was clever take a job on cleaning out asbestos from a defunct mental institution. Tensions sort of rise when they give themselves a week for a month job and some of the staff is not qualified. Make that, most of the movie you just see everyone just stand around, take long lunch breaks or look pained into the camera. So, really, this staff might as well been appointed by the current White House in 2017.OK, so things get tense as one member feels he should bring in a replacement asbestos-buster and another man struggles with his past. The movie goes on too long, it's obvious where it got its inspiration and I kept expecting so much more with what these filmmakers were gifted with. Can't even remotely recommend this because how it was cheaply shot and badly written – so much so, I had to keep rewinding and skipping back to previous scenes to try and figure out what they were trying to convey.Skip Session 9. While completely different, just watch District 9. At least that movie's to the 9s. ***Final thoughts: I asked one of my closest friends, a professional movie critic and radio/podcast host a question for his next show on the style of this film and mentioned how almost unwatchable this movie was because of it. At the time, I didn't know it was shot on Sony's 24P HD video and I will let him know now. He jumped at the chance to answer this next week and I cannot wait to hear his response. Tune into Fat Guys at the Movies with host, Kevin Carr, on/after May 5th for his take on this terrible (my opinion) style of filmmaking.

Don't get me wrong, I honestly love how movies can be set in an abandoned mental asylum but I didn't think this movie was working around it enough. I would rather if the storyline wasn't too slow so that we could be able to see the past and being able to scare the living daylights out of the men!I also didn't like the guys attitude on how they were saying that the patients were "a bunch of loonies" or "just nuts". Any patient who was in a mental institution had either a disability or just Mental health, it just made me annoyed and shocked that they could get away of making fun of those poor innocent people being treated completely poorly! I really just thought this movie was rather lazy, boring and a bit unflattering!