Darkness Feeds on Weakness

Why dwelling in trauma will get you killed

In our therapy-saturated culture, we're constantly told to "heal in your own time" and "accept yourself as you are." It sounds compassionate, affirming. When in actuality, it’s the best way to make yourself easy prey.

Horror movies have an uncomfortable way of revealing truths we'd rather ignore. Strip away the supernatural elements, the gore, and the jump scares, and you'll find something far more terrifying: evil doesn't create weakness. It simply waits for the right moment to exploit what's already there.

Stress and guilt are emotions we all struggle with. But if they’re left to fester, it may just be that everyone we love will suffer for it.

Session 9: Stress Will Take Your Soul

Session 9 (2001) makes a lot of movie reviewers top ten lists, and for good reasons. Filmed on location in a real dilapidated mental asylum, the audience is left feeling dread from beginning to end, with the final line living rent free in every viewer’s head for years to come:

I live in the weak and the wounded.