Easily one of the best horror movies Iv ever seen don't know why it as such a low score, you don't need a huge budget or a star cast to make a psychological horror movie, there's not even any scary music till the closing credits and after the final act your left genuinely disturbed, you don't really know what's going on till the end but you get a very satisfying explanation which is very rare in most horror movies.

Supremely creepy low budget get-under-your-skin type of ghost story about an asbestos abatement crew cleaning up a decaying insane asylum with a lurid history. Unlike most ghost stories, this one does not feature apparitions, conjuring, or poltergeists hurtling objects around. Instead, this film focuses on the psychological breakdown of the workers, framing their breakdown around a set of old patient recordings of session interviews of a patient with multiple personalities who did something quite awful that the interviewer and workers are trying to uncover, which builds to the titular ninth session. The cast is very strong, featuring David Caruso, Josh Lucas in a before-he-was-famous role, Paul Guilfoyle, and a number of other recognizable faces. "Session 9" was directed and co-written by underrated filmmaker Brad Anderson ("The Machinist" and "Vanishing on 7th Street"), and he's created what I'm sure is among the best-horror-movies-you've-never-seen.

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.

Terrible acting, terrible story, terrible audio. Apparently the $50 budget of this movie went to renting a few hours to film it in a nice old building. There is a difference between mystery plot and missing plot. It was as if this was written by high school drop outs. There were no redeeming aspects of this movie and writing a review going over why every element was a failure would be a waste of time. An example of just how low grade this movie is that they couldn't even have their actual actors scream in flashbacks, they were filled with stock screams downloaded from online...