October 15, 2010: Session 9

The idea of a haunting may generate more scares then the real thing. While the noise you hear may be a refrigerator, or a generator, it sounds like something unknown and spooky. Just by implying “ghosts”, it automatically opens many a mind to the idea.

This is what makes Session 9 one of the most frightening films of the last few years. This horrifying film is about an asbestos crew cleaning up an abandoned mental hospital. Supernatural elements are there and damn does it get creepy. Yet, it can be argued that it is simply the power of suggestion that truly creates the horror.

Synopsis: When a massive power blackout causes the population to inexplicably vanish, a small handful of survivors band together inside a desolate tavern struggling to survive as the darkness hones in on them. From director Brad Anderson ("The Machinist," "Transsiberian") comes an apocalyptic thriller with a terrifying vision of our world's end and a story that wrestles with the nature of existence itself.