The Ninth Gate

2000 • 133 minutes

About this movie

Johnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski's thriller, THE NINTH GATE. Depp stars as Dean Corso, an unscrupulous rare-book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of "The Nine Gate of the Shadow Kingdom," a demonic manuscript that can summon the Devil. Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic ritual, and ultimately finds himself confronting the devil incarnate.

Ratings and reviews

Problematic in many ways, but still one of my favs - almost like a comfort movie. Cast is great. Story is great. Ending is so so. Way less convoluted than the book.

lovecraftesque dark tale of forbidden knowledge.

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