Is Thumbelina size 10 on a Wednesday?

Hi All,
That quote's from my all time favorite person in entertainment, Tori Amos (from the song 'Wednesday'). You have to give me credit; I haven't ranted about her greatness for a long time! Mainly, I just thought about the song since today is Wednesday. And it's payday! Yahoo! Pretty sad though when you get paid and already you're left with like, twenty bucks to your name. Just Kidding. Maybe seventy bucks. I ordered Terre's book today; I recommend that you all do the same, as it looks to be surefire entertainment. And, we struggling writers have to support each other! So buy it! Or I'll never stop ranting about whatever entertainment thrills me at the moment! haha Who am I kidding; I'll never stop ranting regardless. I think I was a critic in another life.
We watched 'Session 9' the other night. This was recommended to me as a psychological horror film. It seemed very much like a TV movie to me (produced by the USA network), and unfortunately there was too much time spent in the light of day. The setting was great: a crew goes in to renovate an old mental asylum. While they're there, crew members start disappearing. This film did borrow from my all-time favorite horror movie, 'The Shining,' which was interesting. I won't spoil the plot for anyone who might want to see it. It had a good premise, but didn't quite deliver the scares I wanted. Of course, my standards are high. I want to be scared out of my head. Which is odd because it's contrary to my 'everything must be just so' nature. Being scared is chaotic, and I generally hate chaos. But, Life is Chaos, isn't it? They all say. Well, yes. It is. My problem is that I fight the chaos all the time, and in my mind, everything has an order. Even if the world were literally falling apart around me, my mind would convince me of a way to make it all make sense. Somehow my mind makes sense of being surprised and scared. There were a few scares in 'Session 9:' dark hallways, creepy schizophrenic patients heard on an old tape recorder, and one scene that some people described as being very disturbing which involved a lobotomy. All in all though there wasn't enough Dark for me. If you're in an abandoned mental asylum, I want it to be night all the time, and very dark, and very creepy. And they needed to make more use of things like electroshock and patients being chained to their beds. Hmm. Perhaps my mind is a little warped. haha I just imagine really dreadful things when you say the words 'abandoned metal asylum,' and unfortunately 'Session 9' did not deliver. It's a good film for fans of horror-lite, I suppose.

Grade: C

Things I'd Have Changed About 'Session 9'
1) Never a minute of daylight. Why were we watching these people have lunch out in the sun when we could have been seeing them get terrorized in a dark hallway?
2) Mental asylums are famous for crimes against patients, according to legends. Why didn't we see more of that, or the hint of that?
3) We did see one crime against patients, and it was pretty well done. But I wish someone knew how to make any of these killings in horror movies look more realistic. We might be more scared if they were. I'm not saying I like the gory stuff, because I don't. I'm just saying, if we think it's real, we're more scared.
4) I also wish the casting had been better. Sorry, not a Caruso fan.
5) I think we need to rent more comedies. Too bad there aren't many that make us laugh! Ben Stiller/Adam Sandler movies? Now THAT's scary.

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Have a great day, All.