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Original title:
The Ninth Gate
Made in:
USA, France, Spain 1999
Length:
133 min.
Seen:
on TV 02-12-2000
Review read:
25807 times
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The Ninth Gate is a supernatural and slightly cryptic thriller about Dean Corso, a book expert, who is hired by Boris Balkan, an excentric book collector, to find out whether his copy of "The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of the Shadows" is an original. Corso goes to Spain and Italy to compare Balkan's book to the two other existing copies, but the task is much more difficult and dangerous than he expected.
The book is said to have been written by the Devil himself, and as murders and perils follow in his wake Corso begins to feel evil powers breathing down his neck.
The Ninth Gate has several similarites to to Roman Polanski's first American movie, the occult horror movie "Rosemary's Baby". Compared to the 20-year-old classic the supernatural in The Ninth Gate is more palpable and therefore less realistic and less frightening.
Directed by:
Written by:
John Brownjohn, Enrique Urbizu and Roman Polanski from the novel "El Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
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