One of my all-time favourite slow-burn psychological horror films is Brad Anderson's Session 9. It's a simple tale of an asbestos clean-up crew encountering... something within an abandoned mental asylum, and it's creepy as fuck! Anderson has dipped his toe in horror since with The Machinist, Vanishing on 7th Street, and a variety of TV shows, but he's about to make a big leap back into the genre with Existence.

Basement contributor Matt Bellamy has taken it upon himself to watch and review at least one horror movie a day for the month of October . . . because he's awesome that way! Tonight, Bellamy takes us back to an era when David Caruso acted without sunglasses. There is just something inherently creepy about old, abandoned mental hospitals , my skin crawls a bit just thinking about them. It's almost like if you concentrate hard enough you can hear the scream s from patients past, echoing down those long hospital corridors. The heebie jeebies, I tell ya! Now, ' Session 9 ' is absolutely a horror movie because it deals with horrific subject matter, it's not that it's "jump out of your seat" scary but very unnerving from start to finish. This is a movie that is so thick with atmosphere you can basically cut into it with an electric turkey carver. The story follows an asb...

And you know what? It actually doesn't look half bad.  Granted, Halle Berry and co-star Abigail Breslin are talented actors. Berry's won an Academy Award and Breslin's been nominated. And director Brad Anderson is the bomb when it comes horror and thrillers, what with his Session 9 and The Machinist. The Call follows a 911 operator who ends up dealing with a killer from her past after a young girl calls the center, kidnapped in the trunk of a car.  Working against the film is the plot has elements of Taken and Buried, and the trailer shows every beat we'll see in the movie. Still, there's talent involved, which gives me hope that The Call will be worth the watch when it opens March 15.  Trailer courtesy of Yahoo.