I'd argue capitalism is at least partially to blame, too. Gorden was under that much stress because it's work or starve. There's plenty of guys who commit the phenomenon known as family annihilation without the convenience of an evil spirit from a mental hospital to blame.
Me, too, actually - I've been a horror movie fan for a VERY long time and I rewatch many of my favorites, but Session 9 is the best horror movie I watched ONCE and will never fucking watch again - and it's *entirely* due to Simon's intensely creepy voice :
Mentally or spiritually, both interpretations are terrifying. I just watched the movie today and feel like Simon is one of the most interesting characters I have seen in a while
I'm guessing the stress came from the scope of the project and the 1 week deadline? Or having a bunch of the crew actively not working during that deadline lol
I would never do that crap now! I was one of those guys who saw all the potential dangers and why did they not have respirators for us? I quit!!! When I saw the little plastic shit we would be wearing, cheap ads gloves. No eye goggles. I was like F this! I'm Out!!!
@Under Bridge just like how group X hates voter ID because they think that black people can't get them when ID is need for almost everything who's the racist again. also group X is democrat's and it is an legit concern because if you look at it when the number get high in cases then everyone starts masking but it takes a loooooonnng time for it to take effect so is it really that useful to mask? when it does almost nothing.
@under bridge I’m not calling you a left liberal asshole man and never will all I’m say is I that I disagree with what you said and that’s it. Also I’m sorry if that happened to you but we are not all the same. I disagree with you to with the abortion stuff but that is your opinion and you get to choose what to believe in. Also I use to believe in the left but then saw the lies and the witch-hunt that they did and found out that my belief was more with republicans. It great to see someone else who can see the side their on is bat shit crazy.
killerplunger By the 80s, mental hospitals weren’t full of fun, but most had decent care for those who absolutely needed it. Then Regan shut most federal hospitals down so patients could be cared for “through the community,” while providing no funds for this. Not surprisingly, many horribly impaired people ended up on the streets, and an average stay in hospital after a suicide attempt is a couple days because that is all insurance pays for. Which is worse?
Session 9 is fantastic. I think the movie spells out that it's a supernatural terror, and that Simon is a malevolent being that exists. Simon's voice doesn't come out as a variation of Mary's voice, like Billy and Princess. And when he says where he lives, he even explains he's not one of Mary's identities. Simon is an entity that preys on the minds of the weak. Why he waited in the asylum for so long isn't anything I can answer, but once he found Gordon he was set with his new host.
Could be that he doesn't feel comfortable that he can find any other place outside the asylum where he can find hosts, and he's dependent on the knowledge that asylum patients have broken minds. There's no real evidence he can navigate the world.
I watched the movie today and legit was like one dude half ass cleaning graffiti, One guy listening to tapes, and other people staring out windows between the 5 of em they barley completed one room
@@notavailable179 LMFAO you're braver than me for sure, no amount of money could GET me to take that job. But honestly I feel like you might've survived bc honestly if you didn't go snooping around you'd always be in an open space and could see the killer coming from a distance away.
One of the most underrated horror movies. You can tell they had a very low budget and there's virtually no jumpscares or gore but they still managed to make a very creepy movie just using the asylum's atmosphere, sound design, talented actors and a plot that keeps you second guessing. Definite cult classic!
@@porkypuff5884 most horror movies are 5 plus million, a million dollars might sound big to you, but when it comes to a film production, it's really low.
I have had conversations with my wife - we love and own this movie on DVD - regarding that scene where Gordon is in his van, looking at his wife and baby as they enter the house. It is all shot from his angle, in a van, across the street. I have several questions regarding that scene at 4:53 1) Where is this insane street? Cars are flying by at 45 mph, inches away from the tiny property line, just perfect for raising a toddler... And is there no driveway? This leads to the second question: Are we seeing the back yard or the front? Who designed this house?? Who puts a stove directly in front of a door like that? Either way, the shot is framed for us to see the pot of water on the stove. My guess would be that they used a giant pot so we could see it from so far away. The director has said that Gordon came to the USA to pursue the American Dream with hard work, and we see what that is worth in this one very important shot.
The grounds keeper talked about how old patients were still trying to get back onto the grounds. Was Gordon a past patient there that was released? Is that why Simon stuck with him because he remembered him from being a patient and was considered “weak”?
Lizzie K I was thinking that too. All that stuff Mike was talking about repressed memories. I was thinking Gordon forgot who he was. And subconsciously was drawn back there w/o fully knowing why.
@Laura LaRocco after reading your thoughts. I agree with you. There just isn’t a direct “aha.” It’s very interpretive. And although sometimes that can be fun. In the end the viewers want an answer. And that was overlooked.
@Joshua Hammond well it didn’t occur to me that he never left, since the building was old and dilapidated and he had a wife and young daughter. It’s interpretative. If I’m looking at it from your angle then, I can understand why it’s clearer for you.
I've seen this movie several times and this idea only just struck me when FoundFlix said that the groundskeeper mentioned that old patients were unleashed and would sometimes try to come back. Makes sense that he was a previous patient and was drawn back to the asylum and not knowing why. 🤷🏼♀️
꧁༒ⱤɨCʞƔ༒꧂ you can’t say something is overrated just because you don’t like it. It’s like me saying the old Star Wars movie are overrated because I’m not a fan.
@꧁༒ⱤɨCʞƔ༒꧂ i think people praised the shining because it stood the test of time with its cinematography and it's execution in general.... judging it by only whether it's scary subjectively is a bit shallow imo
There is an alternate ending to this. When they are showing all the things Gordon did in his sleep killer state, they show a woman, she is watching everything. At the end when Gordon is begging on a dead phone to a dead wife to come home, this woman who has been seen throughout comes in and smashes Gordon's head in and kills him. I actually have the DVD. You should watch that one, it explains a lot.
@@hiddenleaf414 Love your name, I am in the middle of binge watching Naruto! If you watch the alternate ending and then watch the original again you can actually catch her shadow lurking, it's pretty intense.
@Laura LaRocco I was so confused the first time then, I watch the alternate and it made so much more sense. I wish they would have released that one. I love the movie either way.
I was a “patient” on the property before it was converted to condo’s in about 2002. It was when that “Beltway-Sniper” was killing people in D.C. to be accurate. I was the treasurer for the patients and had other responsibilities. I would rent DVD’s and have a movie-night once a week for them. I played Session-9 for them one night but before we watched it, I explained the history of the property we were on and that the main building was actually shaped like a bat from above... Needless to say, there were tough-guys there who couldn’t sleep that night.✌️
Session 9 stayed with me for a WHILE. Please actually watch it people, they killed this atmosphere!! Also this explanation didn't really explore the possibility that Gordon is a past patient of the psyche hospital. They mention early on how old patients are still trying to get in and Gordon is clearly affected by different rooms on day 1. It could be that re-entering the hospital after all the years brought back suppressed violent emotions and the rest is history. Nothing confirms this theory but just a thought!
When they are checking the infected areas of hospital with the mayor, this theory of Gordon being a past patient is proven when Gordon out of context takes the lead of walking Phil through the hospital and mayor had to halt him and tells gordon to follow his lead and not the other way around. It shows Gordon is well versed with the hospital especially the 'snake pit' ward. Really great film with multiple permutations that requires multiple viewing.
When Hank is looting at night, he comes across an empty bottle of peanut butter on the floor, which is the exact same one that Gordon has on his grocery bag in the roses flashbacks. That was a bit of an early giveaway.
My conclusion was that Gordon was the one in the psychiatric unit and his co-workers were the different manifestations of his personalities. Basically that Gordon is actually Mary and the whole movie was him just re-living the murder of his family. There’s that shot of Gordon after killing the new guy Craig where his face is juxtaposed to Mary’s photo. I also thought Phil was the psychiatrist, especially when he tells Gordy to ‘wake up’. Interesting movie, love this channel, you get to see movies in a whole new light!!
Hmm, the co-workers being alters could certainly explain why they didn't react to his eccentricities like how he was pretending his family was alive when they weren't. On the other hand, didn't some of them interact with other people like the caretaker? 🤔
I do demolition and hazmat and 99% of the time the buildings are "abandoned" for our work. I prefer to destroy the building with an excavator than go on night shift and do this stuff. Gets creepier the bigger the building is, day after day
I don't like the whole "The ghost made him do it " perspective, because it is much more interesting to see a man slowly finding out how he lost everything including his sanity.
@Lux Aeterna Maybe. On the other hand, Simon's voice is the voice of Mary's'voiceover actress, reduced in pitch. And in an alternate scene that came with a DVD, Mary shows up and kills Gordon.
My mom did her psych rotation for nursing school at Danvers back in the early 70's. She said it was creepy even when it was still open. The staff never wore their IDs around their neck, because the patients were known to try to strangle the staff.
Right after he said that this movie was released almost 20 years ago I immediately scoffed and thought, “no it was released in 2001 not 1991”. And then I had a horrific realization that he’s right...it’s 2020...this movie is almost 20...I’M ALMOST 20! 😖 My childhood went by waaaaay too quickly. 😢
I worked in a repurposed psychiatric hospital in Alton, Il. The architecture was nearly the same. Though the insides had been modernized it was still creepy. I worked as a psych intern in the forensic lockdown. I loved the work, very interesting, but driving onto the campus each day was creepy as hell; I often had to go into one of many records rooms to pull current records but in the back were rows and rows of patient files going back 40+ years--I was never comfortable in that room and the smell of old paper...
Dude they turned the hospital this is based on into condos and my Dentist moved in there. He didn't know about the hospital before moving in and his dental assistants told him to watch this movie. Lol, what are the odds you're covering it now? Amazing!
This has been my favourite thriller movies ever, but I haven't watched it in ages. I torrented it to watch again to refresh myself after seeing this video was posted... I almost forgot how brilliant it is.
Thankyou for using D.I.D instead of "split personalities disorder". So nice to see people using the right terms For peeps that dont understand It'd be like calling depression "sadness disease"
Or schizophrenia. It drives me crazy (no pun intended) when people confuse DID with schizophrenia. I see it all the time. (Though I believe the movie calls it by the correct name.)
I also like how the alter that killed wasn't actually an alter and was an evil entity separate from her. DID is too often portrayed in a weird horrific light. Nice to see that wasn't totally the case here from what I could tell
I don't think Simon is a spirit. Rather, I think he's a representation of the madness we find within the darkest corners of our mind. Sort of like the, "one bad day" thing the Joker mentions. Honestly, this movie left me with a lot of questions.
When i watched the film i thought of Simon as the violent nature that sleeps inside us all. However simon can only come out if you yourself are not strong enough to resist your nature. In the words of Paarthurnax “Which is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
This movie is SOOO underrated. Watched it for the first time in my teens and years later I still love it. The characters, production, story, everything. Thanks for the video, I was so excited to see it in my notifications 😊
One of my favorite horror movies because it's actually BELIEVABLE.. Gordo and Mike's storylines could be totally seperate, but the editing suggests that they're connected. It could just be a stressed out guy having a psychotic break, or they could be intertwined and it actually IS something supernatural.. I love the ambiguity of it. Great acting all around, even the dumb ass guy from Empire Records.
I'm so happy that this movie is getting recognition. It's one of my favorite horror films, although not without it's flaws. The dialogue and overall acting could've been better. But even with that, it's an amazing movie. Plus we can all appreciate the sudden zoom-in with a "Fuck yooouuuu" attached.
I'm from Boston, and when I was younger, people used to break into this hospital. When I was 19, a handful of us broke in an explored the whole place. Even during the day, the place was EXTREMELY creepy. I can't even begin to imagine what it is like at night.
Foundfix youre funny.."white floral thingy" is a wedding garter belt...very popular to hang off your rear view mirror back in the day...lol..showing my age :/
Seeing that wheelchair reminded me of one of the greatest ghost stories ever "the changeling", the good one with George C Scott, not Angelina Jolie!!! I bet you don't dare to do that one!!! It's too scary!!! But you should!!! Please, "the changeling"!!!
Words cannot express how excited I was to see this film was selected on this channel. SUCH a masterful contemporary horror movie. It is a polarizing flick, however. A word used often is "underrated" but it really does fly under the radar for even the biggest horror buffs. I major in Film Studies at Columbia University and my great hope is to produce something this genuinely scary and with such a small budget.
Yeah, that's the interesting thing about watching old shows and movies, to see people before they were famous or notice connections that wouldn't happen until later. 😀
I remember watching this with my mom back in 01 at the age of 14 and being confused at the end. Thank you Found flix for being a cinema Genious and breaking it down for us.
Growing up next to Danvers and now working in asbestos remediation, we always work in creepy places and this movie was a great representation on how scary things get sometimes
small correction: I decided to watch this movie when I saw there was an ending explained on it, and the generator didn't overheat, it ran outta gas. really small point and im sorry to be nitpicky but I literally just finished the movie and noticed this. Great stuff as always foundflix, love your enthusiasm and explanations
Can we be sure that poor Gorden didn't go into a large room with nothing but a gurney and huge mirror, which slowly caused his reflection to become covered in black tendrils?
I’ve only ever heard good things about this movie and always wondered what it was about. Thank you for these videos! I’ve always watched when I thought the actual movie might be too intense for me. I’m trying to step out of my comfort zone now with the help of my channel.
I remember Gordon's ending being so much worse then described. It sounds like he hurts himself, as an excuse to beat and kill his wife. I took it as him being contaminated after seeing that chair in the first walkthrough
I haven’t watched a great scary movie in a while and honestly this one was put together very well, the way it ended w the a bit of the recording and w that last piece of information it really gives you the chills! I love it 💜
I usually watch through the whole video but I actually turned this video off, found the movie online, watched the entirety of it, and now I’m back, and can say I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it yet do the same. It was VERY good. One of the best low budget movies I’ve ever seen period.
Everyone I know who works in something like Asbestos removal smokes weed so I don't understand why Phil is hiding the fact he's buying weed other than the fact he doesn't want to share his hook up
I LOVED this movie. I remember watching it the first time and not getting the whole story, then read and watching a few videos about it before watching it again.
“It’s a good thing his knife was brand new. Real sharp. Haha haha. And then, just so her mommy and daddy wouldn’t get mad, I told her to cut them up too.”
• It's weird to see old movies and shows with people before they were famous or connected. In this case, _CSI_ and _CSI: NY._ • It's a shame that they tore down Danvers to put up some stupid condos. 😒 • This movie is confusing and hard to figure out exactly what happened; there's too much room for doubt, even with the "reveal". The implication is that Gordon was crazy, but was he a patient or not? What is the timeline? How/why was he out? I suppose we're supposed to get that he was committed to the hospital, but was released when it shut down, but why were his photos still up on the wall in his old room? 🤨 Moreover, why were the others acting like there's nothing amiss and they were just working an ordinary job with him? What about how he kept talking like his family were alive, why did the others just ignore that? There's too many holes.
Oh my God.... I don’t remember men looking like such hoodlums back then. The mustaches, the mullets.... I guess all the AquaNet I was inhaling really affected my judgement.
I have this movie on DVD, I cant even count how many times I watched this movie, I've seen everything I can ABOUT thia movie...foundflix featuring this movie? I'm 10000% in.
I slightly remember watching this movie like 2 or 3 years ago. The scene with the guys talking about how long they'll work and how much they'd get paid, would randomly pop up in my head and it'd bother me as I forgot how the movie went after that scene. Thank you so much for covering this! I'm definitely gonna have to watch it again when I get the chance.
I love Session 9. One of my favourites. It gets better every time I watch it because you see more in it. I've seen it three times. I wait a few years each time and watch again. I'm always amazed at what I didn't see before and love it more each time! Yet it's so tragic but so well done!
Asbestos, the true horror of the 90s
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Ron Armada dammit you beat me to it
It is scary. Asbestos can still be found in normal homes today. Same with lead. May not be mind blowing but frightens me
I'd argue capitalism is at least partially to blame, too. Gorden was under that much stress because it's work or starve. There's plenty of guys who commit the phenomenon known as family annihilation without the convenience of an evil spirit from a mental hospital to blame.
The silent killer
It’s still confusing because my brain refused to commit the characters’ names to memory.
SAME 😂😂😂😂 like who tf is who
Bruh I was about to make a comment like this but didn't think anyone felt the same way. I had to rewind constantly.
i watched it before and i am more confused
Yuppyupp idk y but I keep misplacing hank and Mike coz their names suit the other's more 😂
I literally opened a tab and searched "session 9 characters" so I could go check who he was talking about every time I heard a name
"I live in the weak and the wounded" was a line that stayed with me for a *very* long time. Simon's voice is top-tier S-class spooky.
Me, too, actually - I've been a horror movie fan for a VERY long time and I rewatch many of my favorites, but Session 9 is the best horror movie I watched ONCE and will never fucking watch again - and it's *entirely* due to Simon's intensely creepy voice :
Mentally or spiritually, both interpretations are terrifying. I just watched the movie today and feel like Simon is one of the most interesting characters I have seen in a while
i was about to leave this same comment, ha ha. _love_ that line and its delivery.
The line still gives me nightmares 10 years later
This movie stressed me out as a licensed asbestos inspector
I'm guessing the stress came from the scope of the project and the 1 week deadline? Or having a bunch of the crew actively not working during that deadline lol
@@juliantapia1407 probably from them not wearing glasses, or masks sometimes.
The true evil
Oof I can imagine.
I would never do that crap now! I was one of those guys who saw all the potential dangers and why did they not have respirators for us? I quit!!! When I saw the little plastic shit we would be wearing, cheap ads gloves. No eye goggles. I was like F this! I'm Out!!!
“Put on a mask”
“Pfft. No way, Princess”
Conversations in 2020
They what no "Pfft. No way, Sheep"
@Under Bridge uhm...
@Under Bridge just like how group X hates voter ID because they think that black people can't get them when ID is need for almost everything who's the racist again. also group X is democrat's and it is an legit concern because if you look at it when the number get high in cases then everyone starts masking but it takes a loooooonnng time for it to take effect so is it really that useful to mask? when it does almost nothing.
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@under bridge I’m not calling you a left liberal asshole man and never will all I’m say is I that I disagree with what you said and that’s it. Also I’m sorry if that happened to you but we are not all the same. I disagree with you to with the abortion stuff but that is your opinion and you get to choose what to believe in. Also I use to believe in the left but then saw the lies and the witch-hunt that they did and found out that my belief was more with republicans. It great to see someone else who can see the side their on is bat shit crazy.
"An abandoned mental hospital with a dark past."
Aren't they all?
But hey, this hospital has asbestos!
99% of this mental institution has at least one big dark spot on its history. Finding one without a dark history is rarer.
killerplunger By the 80s, mental hospitals weren’t full of fun, but most had decent care for those who absolutely needed it. Then Regan shut most federal hospitals down so patients could be cared for “through the community,” while providing no funds for this. Not surprisingly, many horribly impaired people ended up on the streets, and an average stay in hospital after a suicide attempt is a couple days because that is all insurance pays for. Which is worse?
If you've never heard of, I recommend you to read Michel Foucault's book about the history of madness
not sure they could do it the other way, people might complain about tormenting mental patients
Session 9 is fantastic. I think the movie spells out that it's a supernatural terror, and that Simon is a malevolent being that exists. Simon's voice doesn't come out as a variation of Mary's voice, like Billy and Princess. And when he says where he lives, he even explains he's not one of Mary's identities. Simon is an entity that preys on the minds of the weak. Why he waited in the asylum for so long isn't anything I can answer, but once he found Gordon he was set with his new host.
Fun fact Simon is the same voice actress as Mary just deliberately lowered a bit
Could be that he doesn't feel comfortable that he can find any other place outside the asylum where he can find hosts, and he's dependent on the knowledge that asylum patients have broken minds. There's no real evidence he can navigate the world.
Its what the Devil is all about, he lives in the weak and wounded people, who given up their hopes and in deep sorrows that’s how he preys !!!
Quack quack
@@kerrid5717 That is really cool! They had to shift the pitch a lot there because it sounds completely unrecognizable.
Considering their tight deadline these guys barely seem to be working on the cleanup at all lol
I watched the movie today and legit was like one dude half ass cleaning graffiti, One guy listening to tapes, and other people staring out windows between the 5 of em they barley completed one room
I was telling my s/o if I was offered that money I work non-stop 😂😂 mind my business and just keep working 😂😂
Exactly . The place is so huge and they barely did a room or two ...
not available deadass. Ghosts could not stop me from cleaning when that kind of money is on the line
@@notavailable179 LMFAO you're braver than me for sure, no amount of money could GET me to take that job. But honestly I feel like you might've survived bc honestly if you didn't go snooping around you'd always be in an open space and could see the killer coming from a distance away.
This film took "Simon Says" quite literally
ew, it's the 2020 remake version of this movie XD
this might be why his name was actually Simon
bruh you have 134 comments on this channel how ?!?!?
@@sdwcriminal9023 he is a legend here on yt
why are you everywhere
One of the most underrated horror movies. You can tell they had a very low budget and there's virtually no jumpscares or gore but they still managed to make a very creepy movie just using the asylum's atmosphere, sound design, talented actors and a plot that keeps you second guessing. Definite cult classic!
it had a million dollar budget
@@porkypuff5884 That's considered low budget.
@@AdonanS how
@@porkypuff5884 most horror movies are 5 plus million, a million dollars might sound big to you, but when it comes to a film production, it's really low.
@@loltopkek5709 welp, gg
Ugh our man FoundFlix still looking fresh as hell this quarantine 😩
@Lucius Fawkes didn't say it in a bad way
Lucius Fawkes I highly doubt he wants you even with a couple drinks.
yall quaratined? lol
@@Tripp393 yeah most of our governors are idiots who refused to do anything to stop people from dying so we're still stuck inside now
Tall glass of water with a spritz of horror tbh
I love this movie. Seen it several times, but just noticed something: she is making A LOT of pasta for just two people.
Always has been
QuAcK
There’s never too much pasta my niave boy
I have had conversations with my wife - we love and own this movie on DVD - regarding that scene where Gordon is in his van, looking at his wife and baby as they enter the house. It is all shot from his angle, in a van, across the street. I have several questions regarding that scene at 4:53
1) Where is this insane street? Cars are flying by at 45 mph, inches away from the tiny property line, just perfect for raising a toddler... And is there no driveway? This leads to the second question: Are we seeing the back yard or the front? Who designed this house?? Who puts a stove directly in front of a door like that?
Either way, the shot is framed for us to see the pot of water on the stove. My guess would be that they used a giant pot so we could see it from so far away. The director has said that Gordon came to the USA to pursue the American Dream with hard work, and we see what that is worth in this one very important shot.
@@Mo-fx2ud Indeed.
Damn, 20 years ago was 2000.
nah 2009
Anthony bruh 20 years ago? I believe that was 1988 or 89. Otherwise, it would make me dreadfully old..... lol.😂
I was 17... Geez.
I heard 20 years ago and was thinking that was really old then realized I'm 20
Astrid O'Connor
Joke
Your head
3:49
FF: "Snapped back to reality-"
Me *"-Whoop there goes sanity"*
Mom's spaghetti
@@NagalandHH OH THE HUMANITY
@@Astrithor Violence and depravity
The grounds keeper talked about how old patients were still trying to get back onto the grounds. Was Gordon a past patient there that was released? Is that why Simon stuck with him because he remembered him from being a patient and was considered “weak”?
No
Lizzie K I was thinking that too. All that stuff Mike was talking about repressed memories. I was thinking Gordon forgot who he was. And subconsciously was drawn back there w/o fully knowing why.
@Laura LaRocco after reading your thoughts. I agree with you. There just isn’t a direct “aha.” It’s very interpretive. And although sometimes that can be fun. In the end the viewers want an answer. And that was overlooked.
@Joshua Hammond well it didn’t occur to me that he never left, since the building was old and dilapidated and he had a wife and young daughter. It’s interpretative. If I’m looking at it from your angle then, I can understand why it’s clearer for you.
I've seen this movie several times and this idea only just struck me when FoundFlix said that the groundskeeper mentioned that old patients were unleashed and would sometimes try to come back. Makes sense that he was a previous patient and was drawn back to the asylum and not knowing why. 🤷🏼♀️
This movie's super underrated. Has some Shining vibes
This movie is and always was garbage, not scary, no tension, shit story, zero scares.
꧁༒ⱤɨCʞƔ༒꧂ you can’t say something is overrated just because you don’t like it. It’s like me saying the old Star Wars movie are overrated because I’m not a fan.
You have to absolutely crazy to compare this shite to a masterpiece like the Shining. How dare you.
@꧁༒ⱤɨCʞƔ༒꧂ i think people praised the shining because it stood the test of time with its cinematography and it's execution in general.... judging it by only whether it's scary subjectively is a bit shallow imo
꧁༒ⱤɨCʞƔ༒꧂ uh the part were you put "overrated". If you don’t like it, you don’t like. But you miss used the word overrated.
"Nearly 20 years ago!" - that hurt
Quack
From the title, people've been waiting for this explanation since I was a child.
Me too
They have been waiting since I was 20.
Dude Same
They've been waiting before I existed
I was 15 when this movie dropped. Now I have 18 kids 1 for every year I don't know what's going on with this movie.
There is an alternate ending to this. When they are showing all the things Gordon did in his sleep killer state, they show a woman, she is watching everything. At the end when Gordon is begging on a dead phone to a dead wife to come home, this woman who has been seen throughout comes in and smashes Gordon's head in and kills him. I actually have the DVD. You should watch that one, it explains a lot.
Wow I never saw that
I saw that part too. If I remember right, the woman had scars on her chest, meaning she was Mary.
This does add in the missing link of context for me.
@@hiddenleaf414 Love your name, I am in the middle of binge watching Naruto! If you watch the alternate ending and then watch the original again you can actually catch her shadow lurking, it's pretty intense.
@Laura LaRocco I was so confused the first time then, I watch the alternate and it made so much more sense. I wish they would have released that one. I love the movie either way.
“Hello.....Gordon”
Is this a Saw movie??
That's the first thing I thought and was surprised foundflix didn't do a joke on that
Oh, damn!
Good catch.
HALF LIFE
@@user-rg8mc4el8w no. More like “hello Gordon, we’re going to play a game.” Kind of.
The place they filmed this is 10 minutes away from my house. Danvers State Hospital. Place is haunted AF. mostly condos now tho
don't worry bro, asbestos is fictional, it can't hurt you
@@D0NU75 😝
Me too, ive never gone there tho. Learned about it in school sometimes tho
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I was a “patient” on the property before it was converted to condo’s in about 2002. It was when that “Beltway-Sniper” was killing people in D.C. to be accurate. I was the treasurer for the patients and had other responsibilities. I would rent DVD’s and have a movie-night once a week for them. I played Session-9 for them one night but before we watched it, I explained the history of the property we were on and that the main building was actually shaped like a bat from above... Needless to say, there were tough-guys there who couldn’t sleep that night.✌️
Session 9 stayed with me for a WHILE. Please actually watch it people, they killed this atmosphere!! Also this explanation didn't really explore the possibility that Gordon is a past patient of the psyche hospital. They mention early on how old patients are still trying to get in and Gordon is clearly affected by different rooms on day 1. It could be that re-entering the hospital after all the years brought back suppressed violent emotions and the rest is history. Nothing confirms this theory but just a thought!
When they are checking the infected areas of hospital with the mayor, this theory of Gordon being a past patient is proven when Gordon out of context takes the lead of walking Phil through the hospital and mayor had to halt him and tells gordon to follow his lead and not the other way around. It shows Gordon is well versed with the hospital especially the 'snake pit' ward.
Really great film with multiple permutations that requires multiple viewing.
I never thought about that. Just thought he was possessed by the spir it of the multiple personality patient
@@mokana6234 however, they do claim that the hospital had been shut down for quite some time which would allow for gordan to meet his wife and all.
@@leilaniann4187 Yeah but they also show pictures of the scars Mary had so this theory is immediately debunked
@@sillygoofymarran I think this theory is that Gordon was just another past patient, not necessarily Mary.
Hey you didn’t make a joke about the best line in the movie, “hey if this is about the Oreos...”
When Hank is looting at night, he comes across an empty bottle of peanut butter on the floor, which is the exact same one that Gordon has on his grocery bag in the roses flashbacks. That was a bit of an early giveaway.
“I live in the weak and the wounded” ... still gives me the chills!
Yes I know the feeling. It creeped me out so much
My conclusion was that Gordon was the one in the psychiatric unit and his co-workers were the different manifestations of his personalities.
Basically that Gordon is actually Mary and the whole movie was him just re-living the murder of his family. There’s that shot of Gordon after killing the new guy Craig where his face is juxtaposed to Mary’s photo.
I also thought Phil was the psychiatrist, especially when he tells Gordy to ‘wake up’.
Interesting movie, love this channel, you get to see movies in a whole new light!!
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Hmm, the co-workers being alters could certainly explain why they didn't react to his eccentricities like how he was pretending his family was alive when they weren't. On the other hand, didn't some of them interact with other people like the caretaker? 🤔
How many times will this same exact comment be posted I wonder
I thought that for a second too. Until the end when the new guy came and saw Hank. Then I realized that they were real people.
Nah, this isnt Identity.
This is a man being consumed by jealousy and rage. There is no way they would hire one man for this job
The deleted scenes and alternate ending really make this movie a masterpiece.
That they do
What was it ?
Yeah what happens?
Cannot find deleted scenes
I wish i could see them!
I do demolition and hazmat and 99% of the time the buildings are "abandoned" for our work. I prefer to destroy the building with an excavator than go on night shift and do this stuff. Gets creepier the bigger the building is, day after day
I hope you don't die.
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Why would they make you guys go in there at night?? That's sadistic and doesn't make sense to me 😟😟
@@justadjustor8993 because people work there during the day
HELLO DEMONS ITS YA BOI
I don't like the whole "The ghost made him do it " perspective, because it is much more interesting to see a man slowly finding out how he lost everything including his sanity.
@Lux Aeterna Maybe. On the other hand, Simon's voice is the voice of Mary's'voiceover actress, reduced in pitch. And in an alternate scene that came with a DVD, Mary shows up and kills Gordon.
This is how I take it... Makes it much more sinister to me
My mom did her psych rotation for nursing school at Danvers back in the early 70's. She said it was creepy even when it was still open. The staff never wore their IDs around their neck, because the patients were known to try to strangle the staff.
"Since it was released nearly 20 years ago!"
DONT REMIND ME OF MY AGE!!!
I'm almost 35 lol it hurt
@@blacknight85 right!? I have turned into one of those people that says "kids these days"!
Fun fact: The director of this film, Brad Anderson, also made The Machinist (2004). That would be a good one to review too, it's really underrated.
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@@duckyl5758 quakstar crusaders QUA QUA QU AAAAAA QUAK
Ahhh this is way better, Machinist is great but fumbles on the execution, at least for me.
Christian Bale really put in all on the line for that movie he lost so much weight for that role it was almost dangerous
I've actually been hoping he would one day review The Machinist for quite some time.
Doctor: And where do you live Simon?
Devil: I live in the weak and wounded..Doc !!!
The ending killed it..what a message !!!
Not devil, mental illness
A parasitic entity.
Creepy as hell
What's the message all about?
Feels weird seeing David without his shades
YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!
True lol
And hearing him swear.
Right after he said that this movie was released almost 20 years ago I immediately scoffed and thought, “no it was released in 2001 not 1991”. And then I had a horrific realization that he’s right...it’s 2020...this movie is almost 20...I’M ALMOST 20! 😖 My childhood went by waaaaay too quickly. 😢
Yup, same bro
Don't worry. Age is just a number.
I'm 20.
Well,,, 10 years ago 🤣
@@galactic_socialist or 40’s
@@galactic_socialist don’t worry. 30’s is far from middle aged.
You’re fine. 20 is the new 10.
I worked in a repurposed psychiatric hospital in Alton, Il. The architecture was nearly the same. Though the insides had been modernized it was still creepy. I worked as a psych intern in the forensic lockdown. I loved the work, very interesting, but driving onto the campus each day was creepy as hell; I often had to go into one of many records rooms to pull current records but in the back were rows and rows of patient files going back 40+ years--I was never comfortable in that room and the smell of old paper...
“Hello..Doc” that line gave me chills
Yea when he finally reveals him self
Dude they turned the hospital this is based on into condos and my Dentist moved in there. He didn't know about the hospital before moving in and his dental assistants told him to watch this movie. Lol, what are the odds you're covering it now? Amazing!
I was 8 when I first saw this film, I forgot the story, but there's this anxiety that lingers whenever I remember this film.
This has been my favourite thriller movies ever, but I haven't watched it in ages. I torrented it to watch again to refresh myself after seeing this video was posted... I almost forgot how brilliant it is.
Thankyou for using D.I.D instead of "split personalities disorder". So nice to see people using the right terms
For peeps that dont understand It'd be like calling depression "sadness disease"
I agree
Or schizophrenia. It drives me crazy (no pun intended) when people confuse DID with schizophrenia. I see it all the time. (Though I believe the movie calls it by the correct name.)
I also like how the alter that killed wasn't actually an alter and was an evil entity separate from her. DID is too often portrayed in a weird horrific light. Nice to see that wasn't totally the case here from what I could tell
Yeah nah its the same.
Its more akin to people saying homosexuality is "same sex attraction" or SSA.
Sadness disease was never used as a medical term.
@@TheOrangeRoad yeah that is true. the correct medical term was in fact multiple personality disorder but they changed it upon new research
Session 9 is a criminally underrated watch.
Damn who else felt old realizing 2001 was 20 years ago
😂😂😂
Quick mafs
19* but yes I feel very old
@@MirandMama2022 basicaly 20*
I'm trying not to even think about it, lol... my knees remind me everyday anyway
I don't think Simon is a spirit. Rather, I think he's a representation of the madness we find within the darkest corners of our mind. Sort of like the, "one bad day" thing the Joker mentions. Honestly, this movie left me with a lot of questions.
It’s definitely a demon. Slapping his wife would be a little reasonable but killing his whole family is absolutely not.
@@mozarteffect9442 Dude, this happens in a real world as well and there arent any Simon demons.
*Mary's starting to seep innn Gordan SEEP SEEP SEEP*
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DuCkY quack quack quack beat that
Damn I remember renting this when it first came out. As a freshman in highschool I had no idea wtf I was watching lol
Same
Remember when you used to rent movies from blockbuster and make a night out of it? 😞
@@TheJoeSwanon and when your mom would let you get candy? ;_;
I look forward to this every Saturday night
& Dead Meat on Friday !
@@yourfavoritenursee Yes!! I look forward to Friday as well, it's the first thing I watch in the morning lol
Layla Leutwyler me toooooo ! 😂best start to the weekend
When i watched the film i thought of Simon as the violent nature that sleeps inside us all. However simon can only come out if you yourself are not strong enough to resist your nature. In the words of Paarthurnax “Which is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
Went on a tour back in 1979 with my High School Psych class to Danver's Mental hospital. Feeling of deep dread walking through that place.
pov: you havnt finished the video
pov: you clicked the comments, because you thought someone was gonna say something funny/interesting
pov: you really need to pee
@@albinoblitz stop now, stop
@@albinoblitz pov: oh god its everywhere
@@albinoblitz Get out of my head
This movie is SOOO underrated. Watched it for the first time in my teens and years later I still love it. The characters, production, story, everything. Thanks for the video, I was so excited to see it in my notifications 😊
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DuCkY l thx
My question is when we watching it together lol
“They arrive in the front and are taken aback.”
That made me laugh for some reason 👍🤣
I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am that he covered this one!!!
Oh my god, how I love this movie! Very underrated! Thank you very much for covering it!
“What happened on Christmas in Lowell” well there’s your problem, you’re spending Christmas in Lowell.
Eyyyy now that's Massachusetts resident only burn
Matthew Catalano you know it!
Haha north shore jokes
One of my favorite horror movies because it's actually BELIEVABLE.. Gordo and Mike's storylines could be totally seperate, but the editing suggests that they're connected. It could just be a stressed out guy having a psychotic break, or they could be intertwined and it actually IS something supernatural.. I love the ambiguity of it. Great acting all around, even the dumb ass guy from Empire Records.
I'm so happy that this movie is getting recognition. It's one of my favorite horror films, although not without it's flaws. The dialogue and overall acting could've been better. But even with that, it's an amazing movie.
Plus we can all appreciate the sudden zoom-in with a "Fuck yooouuuu" attached.
My favorite part for sure!! Hahaha
I'm from Boston, and when I was younger, people used to break into this hospital. When I was 19, a handful of us broke in an explored the whole place. Even during the day, the place was EXTREMELY creepy. I can't even begin to imagine what it is like at night.
The best review. I worked there 1974 and 1975 and grew up in Danvers, Mass
Foundfix youre funny.."white floral thingy" is a wedding garter belt...very popular to hang off your rear view mirror back in the day...lol..showing my age :/
I thought so at first also, but I think its the headband from his little girl's christening
Do you think you’d ever to an ‘Ending Explained’ of “Stay Alive”? It’s where “If you die in the game, you die for real!” came from.
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@@duckyl5758 you aren't funny.
Yes! That would be fun! It got kind of weird at the end but 🤷♀️
I love that movie.
I absolutely love this underrated gem! Thank you FoundFlix!
Thank you! I've been thinking about this movie for years now. I've watched every video of yours to find it and you finally did it!
Dude i can't take dogs getting killed in horror movies anymore :( even just hearing of it makes me sad kinda
Then I would advise never seeing "gone with the wind" 40 dogs were murdered during the filming of this movie
@@theretrosavage what?!?
@@youtmeme look it up
@@theretrosavage I looked, I couldnt find anything.😪
Seeing that wheelchair reminded me of one of the greatest ghost stories ever "the changeling", the good one with George C Scott, not Angelina Jolie!!! I bet you don't dare to do that one!!! It's too scary!!! But you should!!! Please, "the changeling"!!!
Love that movie!
This movie is basically "Simon says" gone too far
Lol, so true
I watched this a couple times while high and I remember really enjoying the "real" dialog between the characters
The twist ending of this movie blew me away and felt so satisfying while still leaving some questions too! Great movie and very thought-provoking!
Words cannot express how excited I was to see this film was selected on this channel. SUCH a masterful contemporary horror movie. It is a polarizing flick, however. A word used often is "underrated" but it really does fly under the radar for even the biggest horror buffs. I major in Film Studies at Columbia University and my great hope is to produce something this genuinely scary and with such a small budget.
Surprised you didn't mention the other CSI alum in this film, Paul Guilfoyle.
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Yeah, that's the interesting thing about watching old shows and movies, to see people before they were famous or notice connections that wouldn't happen until later. 😀
@@duckyl5758 stfu
Really? Not the other one?
@@ItssMitch QuAcK
I remember watching this with my mom back in 01 at the age of 14 and being confused at the end. Thank you Found flix for being a cinema Genious and breaking it down for us.
I was literally just thinking about how cool it would be if you covered this one!
Foundflix videos are what are getting me through quarantine ngl
Growing up next to Danvers and now working in asbestos remediation, we always work in creepy places and this movie was a great representation on how scary things get sometimes
small correction: I decided to watch this movie when I saw there was an ending explained on it, and the generator didn't overheat, it ran outta gas. really small point and im sorry to be nitpicky but I literally just finished the movie and noticed this. Great stuff as always foundflix, love your enthusiasm and explanations
Totally forgot about this movie as it’s been like 12 years since I’ve seen it and I’m glad you made a video on it
Can we be sure that poor Gorden didn't go into a large room with nothing but a gurney and huge mirror, which slowly caused his reflection to become covered in black tendrils?
And eventually freeze the reflection in place despite Gordon still moving?
I’ve only ever heard good things about this movie and always wondered what it was about. Thank you for these videos! I’ve always watched when I thought the actual movie might be too intense for me. I’m trying to step out of my comfort zone now with the help of my channel.
Happy to see people talking about this movie. Deserves more recognition than it has gotten.
I remember Gordon's ending being so much worse then described. It sounds like he hurts himself, as an excuse to beat and kill his wife. I took it as him being contaminated after seeing that chair in the first walkthrough
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There was apparently an alternative ending
"Session 9"(2001) is one of the 100 best horror movies of all time for sure! This masterpiece is very atmospheric and sometimes scary as Hell!
I haven’t watched a great scary movie in a while and honestly this one was put together very well, the way it ended w the a bit of the recording and w that last piece of information it really gives you the chills! I love it 💜
I usually watch through the whole video but I actually turned this video off, found the movie online, watched the entirety of it, and now I’m back, and can say I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it yet do the same. It was VERY good. One of the best low budget movies I’ve ever seen period.
Everyone I know who works in something like Asbestos removal smokes weed so I don't understand why Phil is hiding the fact he's buying weed other than the fact he doesn't want to share his hook up
I LOVED this movie. I remember watching it the first time and not getting the whole story, then read and watching a few videos about it before watching it again.
Session 9 was such a fantastic movie, one of the few that have actually spooked me. So glad it's getting the appreciation it deserves
"Can you guess how many sessions there are? Yep 9, good you're paying attention." 🤣
“It’s a good thing his knife was brand new. Real sharp. Haha haha.
And then, just so her mommy and daddy wouldn’t get mad, I told her to cut them up too.”
• It's weird to see old movies and shows with people before they were famous or connected. In this case, _CSI_ and _CSI: NY._
• It's a shame that they tore down Danvers to put up some stupid condos. 😒
• This movie is confusing and hard to figure out exactly what happened; there's too much room for doubt, even with the "reveal". The implication is that Gordon was crazy, but was he a patient or not? What is the timeline? How/why was he out? I suppose we're supposed to get that he was committed to the hospital, but was released when it shut down, but why were his photos still up on the wall in his old room? 🤨 Moreover, why were the others acting like there's nothing amiss and they were just working an ordinary job with him? What about how he kept talking like his family were alive, why did the others just ignore that? There's too many holes.
This is an insanely underrated horror movie, one of my favorites
Damn! I can’t remember the last time I saw this movie, but I am happy you are reviewing it!
Oh my God.... I don’t remember men looking like such hoodlums back then. The mustaches, the mullets.... I guess all the AquaNet I was inhaling really affected my judgement.
I have this movie on DVD, I cant even count how many times I watched this movie, I've seen everything I can ABOUT thia movie...foundflix featuring this movie? I'm 10000% in.
*I have it on DVD too.* 😉
Did you find your Starbucks?
Video starts at 0:01 no need to thank me
Thank you was looking for it
I love how you say "I wonder if...." and "Is this going to play a big part later..." and you immediately answer yourself "Yes."
I slightly remember watching this movie like 2 or 3 years ago. The scene with the guys talking about how long they'll work and how much they'd get paid, would randomly pop up in my head and it'd bother me as I forgot how the movie went after that scene. Thank you so much for covering this! I'm definitely gonna have to watch it again when I get the chance.
I love this movie. Randomly found it years ago. Please for the love of god review Donnie Darko, or is it impossible to explain?
Yes,I love Donnie darko
Donnie Darko always +1
No it's pretty self explanatory
Another great movie that came out around same time as this one was “Memento” with Guy Pearce. Would love to see your review of it.
To understand "Memento" it's best to watch from the ending to beginning! 🤯
The last line of the movie changes the perspective through which all prior events are seen.
I love Session 9. One of my favourites. It gets better every time I watch it because you see more in it. I've seen it three times. I wait a few years each time and watch again. I'm always amazed at what I didn't see before and love it more each time! Yet it's so tragic but so well done!