Session 9

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

• Director: * Brad Anderson
  
• Genre:Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
• Runtime:96 minutes

Cast

David Caruso : Phil
Stephen Gevedon : Mike
Paul Guilfoyle : Bill Griggs
Josh Lucas : Hank
Peter Mullan : Gordon Fleming

Danvers State Hospital has been closed since 1985. Gordon Fleming (Peter Mullan), the owner of a small asbestos removal company, makes a bid to remove the asbestos, ambitiously claiming he can finish the job in just two weeks in order to get the contract; Gordon is desperately in need of money. He is also a new father, and the stress of work and parenthood have been causing problems between Gordon and his wife, Wendy. As Gordon initially tours the hospital, he comes across a dark hallway with a wheelchair in the middle. He hears a ghostly voice say, “Hello… Gordon.”

Gordon’s team is small, but eclectic. Mike (Stephen Gevedon, also the film’s screenwriter) is an angry, acerbic law school drop-out. Phil (David Caruso), Gordon’s second in command, is filled with bitterness after losing his long-time girlfriend to Hank (Josh Lucas), another team member who likes to rub that fact in Phil’s face. Hank dreams of hitting the big time[clarification needed], and wants to leave his job to run a casino. Jeff, Gordon’s nephew (Brendan Sexton III), is the youngest member of the crew, and suffers from severe nyctophobia.

The job affects each of the men in different ways. While checking on an electrical problem, Mike discovers a box marked “evidence.” At the same time, Hank and Gordon are wounded, creating a foreboding atmosphere. Inside, Mike finds a collection of taped interviews with former patient number 444, Mary Hobbes, labeled Session 1 through 9. In between working, he listens and becomes increasingly engrossed in the interviews, which detail the patient’s multiple personality disorder. Most of the subject’s personalities are harmless and child-like. Princess is completely innocent and talks nonstop. Billy sees everything. They all refer to another personality named Simon, someone they don’t want to talk about. Throughout the sessions, it is revealed that something terrible happened involving a knife and a China doll one Christmas in Lowell, Massachusetts. Read more

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