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Originally Posted by dissention
Session 9 scared the living **** out of me! I'm not courageous enough to watch it again. It didn't help matters that it was shot at Danvers State here in Massachusetts. Crikey, that place is scary. I get goosepimply just thinking about that place; the stories of abuse from that place are legendary.
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Did it ever scare me too. Just an unsettling film all around. And Danvers State is indeed a character all to itself...looming, brooding and wicked. I've been reading that it maybe demolished soon. I guess this issue is back in court on 10/26 since MA has blocked the sale of it.
When I first saw it I was so creeped out that I had to stop the film and call 2 friends. It was in that part where the one guy goes back at night to pilfer those coins and stuff and is going through that tunnel and sees the figure. Whoa. Unrelenting. I own it on DVD and the commentary is pretty great. Here's some trivia from IMDb:
This was one of the first feature films shot using Sony's 24P HD video, which shoots at 24 frames per second, like film, as opposed to the 30 frames per second of conventional NTSC video. Using this technology, Anderson and director of photography Uta Briesewitz were able to produce the uniquely effective, deep-focus images using mostly natural light.
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