Flawed but well-acted, arty and creepy supernatural thriller.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 15, 2024

The lo-fi aesthetic make it feel less like a movie and more like a reality show, emphasizing the methodical descent into madness experience by the characters, while the running voiceovers will send chills down your spine.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Session 9 leaps from slow-burn unease—you know something is festering, but you can’t quite put your finger on it—to a rapid-fire gorefest in which everything you’ve just seen is thoroughly explained.

| Sep 14, 2022

Slow burning and atmospheric, Brad Anderson's Session 9 has aged exceptionally well since it was first released back in 2001. This is because of its strong cast, well-honed characterisation and the atmospheric location work of the chiller's setting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2022

Effortlessly sinister without ever veering into over-the-top territory, Session 9 is a shining example of how to make a slow burn and a relatively light-on-scares story intensely menacing and uncomfortable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2022

Session 9 will chill you to the bone.

| Dec 21, 2021

Session 9 is a highly atmospheric suspense yarn with a strong sense of place. In fact, Anderson has admitted that he had the setting for his film before he had a screenplay.

| Feb 27, 2020

Session 9 evokes an older sense of place, while confronting today's struggles to reconcile with the past in the face of modernity via a haunted asylum.

| May 1, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2013

Danvers State Hospital: a huge building, rotting from within... Session 9 without this building is simply inconceivable.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 2, 2011

Session 9 is heavy on mood and light on narrative substance, but the pervasive sense of dread that it sustains trumps the slightness of plot.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 9, 2011

A brilliant, morbid peek in to human psychology.

| Apr 29, 2009

Playing to a classier tune, the film is one that is immersive even in its understatedness, weaving a tale that is all the more effective because of how believable it is.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 9, 2008

One of the best horror films of 2001 ...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

We've been given a new and very scary movie and it should be appreciated accordingly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Brad Anderson cria um forte clima de suspense e conduz o filme com segurança - até que, a 15 minutos do final, o roteiro entra em modo de auto-destruição.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2004

| Original Score: 76/100 | Mar 16, 2004