1999 · thriller · mystery · horror
The Ninth Gate
Directed by Roman Polanski2h 13m1999
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
Our read: The Ninth Gate (1999) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive thriller · mystery · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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