Starring David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Stephen Gevedon & Josh Lucas.

A small company comprised of just a handful of workers bids and wins a project to remove asbestos from a long abandoned building. The building is an insane asylum that was closed down 20 years prior.

Gordon (Mullan) has enough on his hands already with his wife at home and a newborn baby that is leaving him sleepless. Phil and Hank (Caruso & Lucas) don’t see eye to eye as Phil thinks Hank is a liability to the job, and not to mention Hank has stolen and now lives with his ex-girlfriend. So they all have a lot on their minds, and they only have one pressure filled week to complete the job in order to receive a $10,000 bonus.

One of the guys finds some tapes in the basement where a doctor is interviewing a patient with multiple personalities. Another one of the workers finds a hidden compartment in the wall filled with old coins and pieces of gold. But there’s more to this old asylum than just the relics, and it appears to be slowly haunting the men working there. The men start acting strange in different ways as you feel the building slowly start to invade their minds in various ways.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Session 9 a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by October Films

Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell & Lyrig Bent.

Jigsaw and his sidekick, Amanda, are now both dead from the last installment in the series. But, that doesn’t stop Jigsaw from having the final word. With his body laid up in the morgue, they find another tape in his body while performing the autopsy. This tape leads detectives on a path of putting together the pieces of his crimes.

One of the detectives becomes part of the game. He must try to save the lives of those also in the game while saving his own. Jigsaw gives him exactly 90 minutes to play the game or an old friend of his will die.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Saw IV a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Lions Gate Films

Starring Carlee Avers, Brad Ashten, Soren Bowie, Erin Consalvi & Alethea Kutscher.

Unfortunately, this seemed to be a blatant rip and I felt like I was watching another installment of the “Saw” series. While I enjoyed the movie, I still get upset when I feel someone completely stole the idea from another successful series.

In “Are You Scared”, 6 kids wake up in an abandoned factory without an idea of how they got there. Once they all find one another a voice comes across the loudspeaker telling them that they are on a reality TV show. All of them had applied earlier to be on the reality TV show called “Are You Scared” but had since forgotten about it since they never heard back from producers.

The whole point of the show is to face your deepest fears. They all had to send in videotapes explaining why they wanted to be on the show and what their worst fear was. The “producer” makes them regret sharing their fears, and they all find out rather quickly that the show isn’t on the up and up and they are being killed off in sadistic games.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Are You Scared a 4.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Mainline Releasing

I couldn’t find the official trailer, so here is the opening segment of the movie:

Starring Edward Furlong, Jaime Pressly, Daniel Franzese, Susan Ward & Nate Parker.

Philip Markham (Furlong) was recently on a TV reality show where he was to win the love of a beautiful woman (Pressly) against other vying men. He was in love and made it to the last 2 before he was dumped on live TV. He was sure she made a mistake, and he’s going to make sure she knows that.

He takes over the home where the show took place and has his own show by finding contestants on the internet to compete for 1 million dollars on his own reality show, which of course is for his own amusement.

He holds his own competitions and has daily eliminations, and instead of going home, the losers get to die one by one.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Cruel World an 8.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Primetime Pictures

Starring Cecile De France, Maiwenn Le Besco & Phillipe Nahon.

Marie and Alexia (De France & Le Besco) are going to Alexia’s parents house out in the plains for the weekend. They want a place to study for final exams without distractions.

As Marie is calling it a night and in bed already, she hears the doorbell ringing and some commotion downstairs. Shortly after she realizes it’s an intruder and he is trying to kill them. He kills the entire family (Father, Mother and little brother) and abducts her friend Alexia.

Marie decides to tag along as the stranger leaves in the hopes of saving her best friend. She runs into plenty of trouble trying to do so, and both of their lives lie in her hands.

This is a very suspenseful movie that will have you staring at the screen wondering what is going to happen next, until you reach the climactic final scene.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores High Tension a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Alexandre Films