The Ninth Gate is a 1999 neo-noir horror thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. An international co-production between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s 1993 novel The Club Dumas. The film stars Johnny Depp as a dealer of rare books who is tasked with authenticating a 17th-century book that, if used correctly, can summon the Devil.
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First of all – Johnny Depp. Are we good? Okay, moving on.
I would also place this movie into a supernatural subgenre, given that the entirety of the plot is an attempt to summon the Devil himself. But, the events that take place here are all human ambition and control or power, with poor Johnny being the guy that’s manipulated into doing all the dirty work.
It reminds me a little of The Da Vinci Code and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, for all the exploring and digging around that’s needed to figure things out and bring us to climax of the story.
I’ve watched this movie a few times, and it’s one of those I can put in as background noise and occasionally find myself watching it here and there. It’s very much in that category of – I can always rely on it to do what it needs to do.
Fellowship of Filming(s) 