Session 9

0:00 Lee Evening everybody, Lee here. our regular listeners will know that we recently did a supernatural stories episode or not, depending on your beliefs.

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1:59 Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.

2:02 Chris I'm Chris.

2:03 Adam I'm Adam.

2:04 Lee And we are here yet again for another movie that we've been far too long since I last watched it, to be honest.

2:12 Adam

2:14 Lee there will be spoilers, there will be swearing, we'll keep the spoilers until later, I think probably, because this is one that I don't think so many people have watched and I think some people might be tempted after they've heard us discuss it.

2:29 Adam Yeah, good point.

2:31 Lee but yeah, obviously we will need to discuss where the film goes, but we'll try not to get into that too early on.

2:38 Lee so Chris, what did you make on your first viewing of Session 9?

3:26 Chris Yeah, so I didn't remember either of you talking about this. I've never heard of it before.

3:31 Chris I saw the the one line synopsis which said, a job clearing asbestos at a mental asylum.

3:46 Chris I thought it doesn't sound amazing.

3:50 Adam From that.

3:52 Adam Quite frankly, that is possibly the worst synopsis I've heard.

3:55 Chris It could it could be.

3:57 Chris But I thought fair enough, you know, I'd give it a go. And I got to say actually, I was pretty quickly drawn in by the characters.

4:05 Chris And then I was almost massively put off when I when it was when you start hearing about what's happened and it's like, oh, that is pretty brutal. How much is it going to show us? How much is it going to cover? And it's like, no, actually they did it in a very, very good way where, yeah, you get a sense that it's going to be really hard hitting and then it just isn't quite as bad the way they do it. And I was like, no, that's working for me. That's pretty good.

5:16 Chris And then the mystery starts to kick in and you're like, oh, now who who is doing what here? What's going on? They've all got a little bit of a motive, they've all got they're all up to something in in a different sort of way and yeah, who is it really focusing on? Who's going to be the the victim, you know, who's is there a ghost going to come out? It's like, yeah, there's quite a lot going on here and it's sort of yeah, as it unfolded, it got more and more complex, I would say.

5:45 Chris This might be me being a bit dim, but I thought, I'm following this easily. And I was like, not not entirely sure if I am perfectly and it's I'm fascinated now to see how it's going to end. And I got to say, didn't didn't quite expect the ending.

6:40 Chris Don't know if everybody expects that to happen on their first viewing or not.

6:45 Chris But yeah, it it it definitely concluded in a both satisfying and horrible way.

6:55 Adam Laughs.

6:56 Lee I think that perfectly encapsulates the ending pretty much.

7:00 Chris Yeah. Definitely.

7:02 Chris Yeah, so it stepped right up but didn't didn't hit that point that I thought it was going to hit earlier on in the, oh that would be awful if we see some of this stuff.

7:12 Lee Yeah, so even things that later transpires do happen, not going into spoilers, you don't actually see anything. You know it happens and that is bad enough, like it doesn't have to rub your face in it to have the impact of it.

7:29 Chris Yeah, they absolutely get that right, I think.

7:32 Adam It's it's like we were saying it was like we were saying about with sort of the darker side of Inside Number Nine.

7:38 Chris

7:39 Adam Of it's like they set it up well enough and give you enough information that you're like that horrible fucking thing has happened. They don't need to show it to you.

8:32 Chris No. Because they could be all the intensity, all the edge without going over the top.

8:39 Adam And a lot of the time when you when you actually show something, the the imagination tends to enhance it or lose.

8:45 Chris It loses something.

8:47 Adam And it's already pretty bad.

8:49 Adam So it's of yeah.

8:52 Lee especially as well, because I'd forgotten, so when this film first came out, I think I watched it once with Adam and I watched it once with Lady Jennifer and I don't think I've seen it again since and that was probably 13 years ago, so it's been a long time.

9:07 Chris Okay.

9:08 Adam Yeah.

9:09 Lee didn't remember.

9:10 Chris It's it's reasonably old, isn't it?

9:12 Adam 2001.

9:13 Chris The the mobile phone gave gave something away. It's like there's no smartphones going on here.

9:20 Chris So it had to be at least before kind of 2008.

9:23 Adam Yeah, it's 2001.

9:25 Adam And I which would have been I saw it roughly when it came out.

9:31 Lee Yeah, I think we did. So we yeah, so it's even even longer ago than I realized. Yeah.

9:35 Adam Yeah, could be like 20 odd years back or something like that now.

9:39 Adam And I think I've only seen it, it just it's stayed with me.

9:42 Adam But I I only saw it that once, but I was what the for this I was watching the rather marvelous second sight Blu-ray version. And the one thing that's gone there and again this is something that would need to be covered more on the spoiler end is.

9:56 Adam There is a whole extra sort of element to this that was cut out.

9:59 Lee Oh, right.

9:59 Adam in terms of in terms of like there was another element to this to the story and.

10:05 Adam It doesn't change anything, but it creates a whole new take on sort of certain parts of it. But apparently they they just and they cut it out because it it worked oddly with test audiences, but again.

10:13 Adam I don't want to say too much before we head into it.

10:18 Chris Oh, man.

10:19 Chris I'm very eager to hear about that.

10:20 Lee Yeah. But yeah, so what I was I was about to say was I'd forgotten how low budget this film is, which again, as you were saying, we've not showing too much, might have been part of the reason they sort of opted to do it that way and describe stuff and show you less.

10:31 Lee Yeah, because this although the acting's great and things great.

10:34 Chris Yeah, it's.

10:34 Lee It's literally just a kind of film stock, it looks too real to be a hor to be a Hollywood movie. I think it's.

10:42 Chris Yeah, it does.

10:43 Adam It it's the very early, it's the very early HD digital video.

10:50 Lee Yeah.

10:51 Adam So similar to like 28 Days Later.

10:54 Adam Which gives it that oddly, which gives it a double weird thing because it it partly gives it a documentary feeling.

11:03 Adam But also oddly gives it a feeling like you're watching something that someone made themselves, like like a home video sort of thing, because that was the last time that that that was the last days that technology got to before we all just had phones and we could just film anything we liked at any time.

11:18 Lee Yeah.

11:18 Adam Because that was the last time that that that was the last days that technology got to before we all just had phones and we could just film anything we fucking liked at any time.

11:23 Adam Yeah. So it had to be at least before kind of 2008. Yeah, it's 2001. And I which would have been I saw it roughly when it came out.

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