The Ninth Gate

3.33
    The Ninth Gate
    1999

    Synopsis

    An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship.

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    Cast

    • Johnny DeppDean Corso
    • Frank LangellaBoris Balkan
    • Lena OlinLiana Telfer
    • Emmanuelle SeignerThe Girl
    • Barbara JeffordBaroness Kessler
    • Jack TaylorVictor Fargas
    • José López RoderoPablo & Pedro Ceniza/1st & 2nd Workmen
    • James RussoBernie
    • Willy HoltAndrew Telfer
    • Allen GarfieldWitkin

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Salon

      Amusing, ultra-deadpan entertainment. The director was lucky enough to have a cast who were in on the joke and tuned in to his wavelength.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      Elegant, scary fun.
    • 65

      TNT RoughCut

      Fairly enjoyable as an old-fashioned horror yarn -- or, if that doesn't work for you, as a black comedy about an obsessive collector.
    • 60

      Film.com

      Compulsively watchable and its occasional lapses into that familiar Polanskian overkill are almost charming.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of "The Blair Witch Project," and not nearly as funny.
    • 34

      Mr. Showbiz

      The once-talented Mr. Polanski is hard to spot.
    • 33

      Entertainment Weekly

      A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save.
    • 30

      Village Voice

      Never quite becomes unwatchable.

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