Session 9 (2001)
Directed by Brad Anderson · Cinematography by Uta Briesewitz
R97 min64 frames
HorrorMysteryDrama
Fear is a place.
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What is Session 9 about?
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson, written by Anderson and Stephen Gevedon, and starring David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Lucas, and Gevedon. The film follows an asbestos abatement crew who take a clean-up job at the abandoned Danvers State Psychiatric Hospital amid an intense work schedule, growing tensions, and mysterious events occurring around them. Its title refers to a series of audio-taped psychiatric sessions with a former asylum patient, Mary Hobbes, that run parallel to the crew's experiences.
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What does the cinematography of Session 9 look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, Session 9 builds its coverage from close-ups (30% of the sample), with medium shots (29%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Uta Briesewitz keeps 62% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Session 9?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Session 9 (2001) are #33312b, #57544c, #918973, #d4d3cc, #726c53, #afa691 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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