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[Seeitinthemist]

Anyone remember this movie? I saw it long ago, but I know its got a lot of cool elements to it, like the actual voice recordings of the woman from the insane asylum with multiple personality disorder. And the posession of a nother man. Also am wondering if this is a real hospital if anyone knows about it. Session 9 Trailer

[nickstanovic]

I remember the three voices and the old school tapes. Good movie.

[sergeantkarma007]

Awesome movie. It was filmed at Danvers State Hospital which is the place that supposedly began the lobotomy stuff. I'm sure if you google it you can find out more information..it was located in Danvers, MA if I remember correctly, but I think they tore it down in 2006. I did a bunch of research for some papers I had to write in one of my college courses and that was one that I wrote about. <3

[Seeitinthemist]

wow....
wikipedia says
"However, on April 7, 2007, four of the new apartment complex buildings and four of Avalon bay's construction trailers burned down in a large fire visible from Boston, some seventeen miles (27 km) away. The mysterious conflagration was confined mostly to the buildings under construction on the eastern end, with damage to the remaining Kirkbride spires from catching fire due to excessive heat. An investigation is underway concerning the cause of the fire. Avalon Bay provided a live webcam of the construction at the old site of the hospital at their website; however, the pictures cut out at approximately 2:03 AM the night of the fire, and the webcam was disabled, possibly due to the fire. Aavlon Bay has agreed to put up a permanent memorial to the patients, including fixing up the cemetery, and saving the Kirkbride Complex. They are continuing to use the Kirkbride's gothic and attractive Façade as a popular spot for apartments."



also:

* The hospital was the setting for the 2001 horror film Session 9, where an asbestos clean-up crew comes to the hospital, and they find a series of nine tapes, which have recorded a patient with multiple personalities, and all of them are innocent, except for number nine. It was also featured in 1958's Home Before Dark.
* The Danvers State Insane Asylum may have been the inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium, which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series. Danvers also appears in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories "Pickman's Model", "Herbert West -- Reanimator" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
* In the game Painkiller, one of the levels, called Asylum, is based on the central administration section. While the outside is a faithful reproduction, the inside is not.
* In the book Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz, the plot theme is six teens breaking into Danvers, to investigate the allegedly haunted asylum. And prove it in a movie.
* In the tabletop RPG Mage: The Awakening, the hospital's reflection in the World of Darkness was administrated by soul-stealing Tremere liches, who fed upon their patients.
* The abandoned asylum was explored on the paranormal investigation–urban exploration series SCARED! in 2004 and again shortly before its demolition in 2006.
* "The Danvers State" is a song by Portland artist Archeology which appears on the band's second E.P. The Wildwood Hymns.

Edited by Seeitinthemist, 07 February 2010 - 04:06 PM.

[sergeantkarma007]

Seeitinthemist, on Feb 7 2010, 02:05 PM, said:

wow....
wikipedia says
"However, on April 7, 2007, four of the new apartment complex buildings and four of Avalon bay's construction trailers burned down in a large fire visible from Boston, some seventeen miles (27 km) away. The mysterious conflagration was confined mostly to the buildings under construction on the eastern end, with damage to the remaining Kirkbride spires from catching fire due to excessive heat. An investigation is underway concerning the cause of the fire. Avalon Bay provided a live webcam of the construction at the old site of the hospital at their website; however, the pictures cut out at approximately 2:03 AM the night of the fire, and the webcam was disabled, possibly due to the fire. Aavlon Bay has agreed to put up a permanent memorial to the patients, including fixing up the cemetery, and saving the Kirkbride Complex. They are continuing to use the Kirkbride's gothic and attractive Façade as a popular spot for apartments."



also:

* The hospital was the setting for the 2001 horror film Session 9, where an asbestos clean-up crew comes to the hospital, and they find a series of nine tapes, which have recorded a patient with multiple personalities, and all of them are innocent, except for number nine. It was also featured in 1958's Home Before Dark.
* The Danvers State Insane Asylum may have been the inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium, which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series. Danvers also appears in H. P. Lovecraft's short stories "Pickman's Model", "Herbert West -- Reanimator" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
* In the game Painkiller, one of the levels, called Asylum, is based on the central administration section. While the outside is a faithful reproduction, the inside is not.
* In the book Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz, the plot theme is six teens breaking into Danvers, to investigate the allegedly haunted asylum. And prove it in a movie.
* In the tabletop RPG Mage: The Awakening, the hospital's reflection in the World of Darkness was administrated by soul-stealing Tremere liches, who fed upon their patients.
* The abandoned asylum was explored on the paranormal investigation–urban exploration series SCARED! in 2004 and again shortly before its demolition in 2006.
* "The Danvers State" is a song by Portland artist Archeology which appears on the band's second E.P. The Wildwood Hymns.

Oooo I would not wanna live in apartments there lmao. I didn't know they had built any, and I didn't know of the fire. I'm superstitious though, lol.