![]() The doctor has identified multiple personalities in Mary and seeks to interrogate each in turn. Each time he does so, we learn a little more about the case of Mary Hobbes, whom a doctor is questioning about events long ago on a Christmas day in her family home in Lowell, Mass. As the tensions between the crewmembers mount and they become increasingly isolated, Mike repeatedly returns to the basement to listen to the tapes. The title is taken from a series of nine audiotapes that Mike, the most intellectually curious of the workers, discovers in the basement and begins to play. Drawn momentarily away from the group, Gordon hears a voice call to him. We also learn that the hospital was on the cutting edge in its experiments in repressed memory retrieval and in its performance of therapeutic lobotomies. We soon learn, as the asbestos elimination team tours the building, that this is an area for the treatment of the most violent and psychologically disturbed patients. In the opening frames, we see down a dark hallway, into which light emerges from an odd angle and partially illuminates what appears to be an electric chair. Desperate to secure the Danvers job, Gordon promises to finish a three-week job in two weeks, and then, lured by the prospect of a bonus, agrees to complete work in one week. The other workers are Mike, a law student, and Jeff, Gordon's naive nephew. Even as he angles for Gordon's job, Phil still bristles in the presence of Hank, a co-worker who not only stole Phil's girlfriend but is also fond of reminding him of it. Gordon's chief and most reliable assistant is Phil (played by David Caruso), but Phil has troubles of his own. The boss of the Hazmat crew is Gordon (played by Hank Peter Mullan) who labors under the dual strain of previous job failures and marital tension. Local officials have secured the services of the Hazmat Elimination Company to remove asbestos as a first step in refurbishing the building. The Danvers mental institution, which opened in the 1880's and, before closing in the mid 1980's, was home to more than 7,000 patients, is now in a state of decay. In Session 9, which contains no romance and very little comedy, Anderson gives us an engaging thriller that delivers scares. Director and co-writer Brad Anderson, a Boston native, has used the city's suburbs as a film venue before, in his romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland. Who knew that in the land of the curse of the Bambino there existed a building haunted by more demons than Fenway Park? The main character in the new film Session 9 is a sprawling, menacing, bat-shaped former mental hospital located just outside of Boston in the city of Danvers.
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