Session 9: Horatio Caine and the haunted Irishman.

Currently watching "Session 9" it opened with a "USA Films" logo...... this is gonna suck...

A hospital closed in 1985, and all the patients were put out on the street, but some keep coming back.

OK, my first big problem with this movie. Horatio from CSI: Miami and Jim Brass from CSI: First one are in this movie.... ummm.... Neither of them are police officers, Horatio is an asbestos remover and Brass is a tourguide of sorts, I think he owns the building.

Anyway, Horatio and an Irishmen are examining the building to see what sorts of asbestos and hazmat removal they'll have to do. They start working on Monday and the movie basically starts.
I'm pretty sure Horatio from CSI is also smoking pot. I uh... ok. So throughout the week each of the 5 workers has a different problem or storyline they follow. One becomes obsessed with the old asylum records and the history of a single patient. (Doesn't this sound familiar??) One is afraid of the dark, one is dating Horatio's old girlfriend and picking on Horatio about it, one is the Irishman who's having martial issues and a new baby problems. As the story progresses each person seems to be more and more affected by the asylum. They start fighting with each other more and more, they start hearing voices and going crazy, and the likes.

*spoiler*

The Irishman goes nuts and kills everyone, and has been killing them the whole time.

My problem with this movie, and the idea is pretty commonplace but good regardless, is that they don't explain the unexplainable. When you finally find out that it wasn't Horatio who was killing people, it's more confusing than anything. Normally in these types of movies, it's a "oooooohhh!! that explains it!" but this time it was more of a "so wait, that part didn't happen? or wait, not yet?? ummmm".

I think there's a new genre of horror movies, and I'd call it the "group investigation/discovery" flick. So movies like Session 9, and that shitty danish horror movie, and the descent and the likes are grouped into a specific area, where they find out some dark power lurks there, or someone goes crazy, or something like that.

The movie had some strange music choices, but mostly it's the silent, dialogue only sounds. The setting is a great asylum that's been featured in dozens of movies. There's nothing really wrong with the movie, it just kinda drags. Honestly, it would be a better book than a movie, since I can't imagine Horatio Caine and Jim Brass in anything other than CSI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CudA99mUoz0

Overall- It's not worth a rent, and not worth a buy, maybe if someone else is watching it, and you're not really paying attention but it's on in the background, then it might be ok.