"Session 9" is a muddle, unable to decide whether it wants to be a psychological thriller or a horror film. [...] a guess is that he is after a low-rent version of "The Shining," where an evil building drives people to commit evil deeds. [...] nothing is going to drive audiences to see a tale of terror with so few shocks and such pedestrian writing.

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