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Session 9

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Session 9	label	Session 9
Session 9	page	Session9
Session 9	comment	A 2001 Psychological Horror about a cleaning crew busy taking asbestos off from the Danvers State Asylum (opened in 1855, condemned in 1985), which ends up being a much more...stressful job than any of them bargained for. Directed by Brad Anderson and starring Peter Mullan, David Caruso and Josh Lucas.
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Session 9 / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Session 9 / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Hank keeps repeating "What are you doing here?" over and over again. These were the last words he said before he received an icepick lobotomy.
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Session 9 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Session 9 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In one scene, Hank finds some equipment for lobotomy. Later in the movie, Gordon lobotomizes him with them, coupling it with Chekhov's Skill from Mikey's earlier mock-demonstration/description of the process on Jeff.
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Session 9 / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Session 9 / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: One of Gordon's victims is his baby daughter.
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Session 9 / int_2de02182	type	Visual Title Drop
Session 9 / int_2de02182	comment	Visual Title Drop: "Session 9" is never voide-dropped but we gets close-ups on the tapes Mike listens to with the last one being titled Session 9 in which Simon gets revealed.
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Session 9 / int_2fd62e54	type	The Killer in Me
Session 9 / int_2fd62e54	comment	The Killer in Me: The protagonist who we follow most of the time turns out to be the killer.
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Session 9 / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Session 9 / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Mary from the tapes appears to have three personalities named Princess, Billy and Simon. Simon is the one which drove her to murder, and the end of the film implies that Simon is now inhabiting Gordon as well.
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Session 9 / int_46029d2b	type	Slow Electricity
Session 9 / int_46029d2b	comment	Slow Electricity: When the power generator fails, the lights turn out on Jeff one by one as he runs along the tunnel.
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Session 9 / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
Session 9 / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: The practice of frontal lobotomy is discussed by the workers, and two eventually take place.
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Session 9 / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Session 9 / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Gordon killed his wife, daughter and colleagues (even if the jury's still out on Hank), during a DID-induced psychotic break. Or, alternatively, after being possessed by Simon.
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Session 9 / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
Session 9 / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror: There are only one or two "scare moments" throughout the film and instead the film relies on a lingering sense of tension and dread.
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Session 9 / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Session 9 / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:
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Session 9 / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Session 9 / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: On one hand, there is Mary killing her brother for breaking her doll and then killing her parents to avoid them getting mad at her. And then there is Gordon killing his wife because she accidentally spilled hot water on him and then his baby and dog because they were making noise. Whether this is also the reason behind the death of the team members is left unclear with maybe the exception of Phil.
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Session 9 / int_5735378d	type	Haunted House Historian
Session 9 / int_5735378d	comment	Haunted House Historian: Mike informs the crew about the (fictional) Patricia Willard scandal that was part of the reason why the asylum was closed down on the 1980s.
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Session 9 / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
Session 9 / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: Almost all scenes are shot around or inside the asylum.
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Session 9 / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
Session 9 / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: The B-plot of Mary Hobbes' accident with her doll leading her to become a Self-Made Orphan by killing her whole family gets mirrored in the A-plot with Gordon killing his wife and daughter in the wake of a household accident.
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Session 9 / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Session 9 / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: One patient's room is full of blood-smeared photos and clippings.
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Session 9 / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Session 9 / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The Reveal provides flashbacks to all murder scenes but this time with footage of what actually happened includes a different voiceover of the inciting incident at Gordon's home.
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Session 9 / int_743d2893	type	The Woobie
Session 9 / int_743d2893	comment	They're all jerkasses aside from Jeff. Mike is a mild Jerkass as well, since he is more on the teasing rather than cruel side.
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Session 9 / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Session 9 / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: The backstory of Mary Hobbes, who got possessed by Simon and went on to kill her brother and her parents at a young age.
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Session 9 / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
Session 9 / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: Gordon starts hearing Simon speak to him when they get introduced to the asylum and visit Ward A.
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Session 9 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Session 9 / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: It's mentioned that Mike's dad was a DA, and that Mike himself has ambitions of going into law school eventually. None of that really matters, because Mike gets murdered along with everyone else. The same goes with Hank and Phil's relationship drama with Amy.
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Session 9 / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Session 9 / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Inverted. Gordon shows the team photos of his baby daughter and his wife, which might suggest Gordon will die before the end of the film. Gordon survives. His team and his family are not so lucky.
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Session 9 / int_8fed141a	type	Bloody Handprint
Session 9 / int_8fed141a	comment	Bloody Handprint: Seen on the van door when Craig arrives, foreshadowing Jeff's fate.
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Session 9 / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Session 9 / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: It's basically The Shining IN AN ABANDONED MENTAL ASYLUM!
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Session 9 / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Session 9 / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: The scary moments with Hank in the dark basement where he finds valuables but also hears noises. Jeff later also finds himself in a dark tunnel after a generator failure.
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Session 9 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Session 9 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Phil claims that everyone heard Amy say that Hank had gone to Miami to go to casino school, Gordon points out that none of them actually heard it: Phil claimed to have been on the phone to Amy, but they didn't actually hear her saying that herself. This clues the audience into the fact that we haven't actually heard Gordon's wife over the phone, we're just seeing him supposedly talking to her. There's also - the scream heard during the Smash to Black when Gordon's going in to give Emma the roses, though it's overlaid onto the generator, Hank musing about how Gordon is the only one who doesn't have an "escape plan" to get out of their field, and Mikey tells Jeff about how everyone has to have something to keep them centered while working with such dangerous material, and that Gordon is a zen master of keeping his calm - but the cracks are starting to show.
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Session 9 / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
Session 9 / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: An actual one, a prominent landmark along Route 1. Very few changes were made to the site for the film. It is now an apartment complex.
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Session 9 / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Session 9 / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: See Chekhov's Gun. It's revealed that after Gordon lobotomized Hank, he left the silver 'ice-pick' embedded to the hilt in Hank's eye. He does the same thing to Craig.
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Session 9 / int_a91a3b48	type	Gollum Made Me Do It
Session 9 / int_a91a3b48	comment	Gollum Made Me Do It: Both this and Split Personality in regards to Mary and Gordon. In Mary's case, Simon talked her into brutally murdering her entire family. Simon is also the one who gets to Gordon and first makes him murder his wife, dog and newborn child, then slaughter all his co-workers.
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Session 9 / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Session 9 / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The Sessions, the 9th of which gives the title of the movie and plays at the end. And delivers one of the most, if not THE most, bone-chilling scenes in the movie.
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Session 9 / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Session 9 / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Gee, Jeff, your Uncle Gordon is coming towards you holding a sharp object in his hand, splattered in blood, and looking pissed, and you think it's about the Oreos? Although this might be excused due to Jeff coming down from an adrenaline rush and nyctophobia attack.
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Session 9 / int_b96831b8	type	Onscreen Chapter Titles
Session 9 / int_b96831b8	comment	Onscreen Chapter Titles: The movie is split into chapters for each day, starting with Monday, with each new chapter announced via an on-screen title.
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Session 9 / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
Session 9 / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	There's also - the scream heard during the Smash to Black when Gordon's going in to give Emma the roses, though it's overlaid onto the generator, Hank musing about how Gordon is the only one who doesn't have an "escape plan" to get out of their field, and Mikey tells Jeff about how everyone has to have something to keep them centered while working with such dangerous material, and that Gordon is a zen master of keeping his calm - but the cracks are starting to show.
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Session 9 / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Session 9 / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Are the horrific events that take place caused by Gordon snapping and killing his wife and daughter, then suffering Sanity Slippage afterward, or was he possessed by Simon before even that occurred, due to Simon's professed love of "liv[ing] in the weak and the wounded"?
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Session 9 / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Session 9 / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The only time you see any blood is in the denouement. Also, the scariest parts (Gordon killing his wife and infant daughter, Mary's story, Gordon killing everyone) happen off screen. Though there's actually quite a bit of blood towards the end; it just isn't splattered all over the screen.
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Session 9 / int_ce730b71	type	Death by Recognition
Session 9 / int_ce730b71	comment	Death by Recognition: A scene during the Once More, with Clarity reveal at the end shows Hank in the basement bumping into someone unseen and asking him what he is doing there followed by him screaming.
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Session 9 / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Session 9 / int_dbca2c99	comment	Phil. Very much so. Phil is played as the biggest jerk in the movie, even worse than Hank towards the end, constantly giving the others shit and acting like an irrational asshole. This is probably a Red Herring to make Phil seem even more like the killer.
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Session 9 / int_dbe013f	type	TheSixthRanger
Session 9 / int_dbe013f	comment	The Sixth Ranger: Craig gets called in after Hank's disappearance, only to be murdered almost immediately after arriving at the asylum.
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Session 9 / int_dc77cb66	type	Multi-Gendered Split Personalities
Session 9 / int_dc77cb66	comment	Multi-Gendered Split Personalities: A sub-plot revolves around a psychiatric patient named Mary Hobbes, who suffered from dissociative identity disorder and had three "alters" named The Princess, Billy and Simon. Billy and Simon sound very masculine and have masculine names while The Princess sounds more feminine. The film leaves it deliberately ambiguous whether this is actually a case of dissociative identity disorder or Demonic Possession.
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Session 9 / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Session 9 / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: Hank gets scared by noises in the Creepy Basement and eventually comes across some disturbed pigeons which he thinks were the cause.
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Session 9 / int_e9269f72	type	It Was Here, I Swear!
Session 9 / int_e9269f72	comment	It Was Here, I Swear!: Jeff encounters Hank in the building after the latter was thought to have left for Florida. He runs to get the rest of the crew but when they return Hank is gone and Jeff drops this stock phrase.
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Session 9 / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Session 9 / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Hank. What happened to him was still rather jarring and sad though, mostly due to how drawn out it was. Jerkass or not, he didn't deserve that, but that's rather the point anyway.
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Session 9 / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Session 9 / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Although there was much fuss about the tight schedule, the crew is rarely shown doing any actual work and we rather see them resting and talking. Mike even sneaks out during working hours to listen to old tapes with no one noticing.
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Session 9 / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Session 9 / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Double subverted. Gordon initially appears charming, friendly and easy-going, before... well, you know.
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Session 9 / int_f8df38e6	type	Pater Familicide
Session 9 / int_f8df38e6	comment	Pater Familicide: The Reveal shows that Gordon killed first his wife and then their baby daughter due to psychological stress or possession.
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Session 9 / int_f9439c84	type	Haunted House
Session 9 / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: One explanation for Gordon's Sanity Slippage is that he got possessed by a ghost from the asylum.
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Session 9 / int_fb8b5014	type	Talking to Themself
Session 9 / int_fb8b5014	comment	Talking to Themself: There are two interesting variations. Mary and her personalities. Mary can't communicate with anyone else, Princess only watches Mary and talks to Billy, Billy watches everyone and can contact all but Mary (though he avoids Simon) and Simon can talk to everyone, including Mary. Gordon talking with already dead Phil in his head. Also possibly Gordon talking to his dead wife on a broken phone.
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Session 9 / int_ffb55ae3	type	Fauxshadow
Session 9 / int_ffb55ae3	comment	Fauxshadow: Lots of clues are dropped to make Phil the villain of the story, like him lying about the phone call to Amy and turning the crew against Gordon. Turns out he is innocent.
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Session 9	hasFeature	Abandoned Hospital / int_b1ba91dd
Session 9	hasFeature	Gollum Made Me Do It / int_b1ba91dd
Session 9	hasFeature	Lobotomy / int_b1ba91dd
Session 9	hasFeature	Multi-Gendered Split Personalities / int_b1ba91dd
Session 9	hasFeature	Psychological Horror / int_b1ba91dd
Session 9	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_b1ba91dd
Session 9	hasFeature	The Killer in Me / int_b1ba91dd

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