Your therapist finally snaps — and you're tied to the chair for this session.
A former Sing Sing inmate, accidentally robs and is held captive by his old shrink Dr. Beck, an ex-criminal psychologist turned librarian after the murder of his wife and son, who interrogates the intruder as though it were one of their sessions turned awry.
Acting
Berneti and Sitler's locked-room chemistry crackles with mutual recognition.
Editing
Lean runtime wastes nothing; every cut tightens the noose.
Production
Library-as-prison set design turns institutional calm into menace.
Director
David M. Night Maire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's double meaning — therapy session and criminal session at Sing Sing — collapses the supposed boundary between healing and punishment.
Director David M. Night Maire's name is a deliberate nod to horror's psychological lineage; this was his festival breakthrough before being buried by algorithm obscurity.
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