The Ninth Gate
Movie • 1999 • Horror
ReportAn 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.
This movie contains 23 potentially triggering events.
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Is someone stalked?
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malovela
A man is overtly stalked by more than one sinister person whose motives are unknown to him. Having the same persons showing up almost everywhere he goes, seeing them standing a way away staring at him for the longest time etc. frays his nerves considerably.
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malovela
Technically no, I think, BUT there's a scene that looks very similar to a scene of domestic violence: A man and a woman who barely know each other have sex in the man's hotel room. Afterwards, the woman physically attacks the man out of the blue, throwing herself against him nails first, so to speak, clawing at him and biting his chest hard while he struggles to hold her off (he doesn't get violent). She ends up smashing a bottle on his head, leaving him unconscious.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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malovela
We see the main character mentally unravelling to some extent because of a number of people who are playing with his mind, refusing to tell him what he wants to know. Whether there's gaslighting as such, I can't say; I find the concept fuzzy.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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malovela
The main character seems like he might be an alcoholic.
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malovela
I'd say yes. A woman comes on to a man extremely strongly, with words and body language, and even though he's flustered, wasn't in a good place to begin with, and is not reacting positively to her sexualising words/actions at all, she goes ahead and places her flat hand directly on his penis through his closed pants, moving her hand a bit, then starts kissing him. After a while, he "gives in", and they have sex. She did it all calculatingly, to manipulate him into giving her something she wants. When, right after they're done having sex, she realises that the manipulation didn't work, she attacks him physically and leaves him passed out. ... I must add that the person I watched the movie with interprets the scene differently; he doesn't think the man is unwilling at all, just wary as to her motives. Like, basically, "He wants to f*** her, but isn't sure exactly how dangerous she is" (it's all a high-stakes, mysterious game, and she's obviously a powerful player with a more or less sinister agenda).
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QBarclay
The mysterious green eyed woman sexualy assaults the protagonist in the third act.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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malovela
Suicide by hanging (although we don't see the face, only the spasming legs, the moment it happens). Strangulation with a necklace. There may be other instances; I'm not sure. I feel like mentioning that we see a man lying dead in a basin, having been drowned off-screen.
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Is someone burned alive?
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invadermac
Two separate people
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Is there a hanging?
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malovela
Suicide, the very beginning of the movie. We see the man write a letter, step onto a stool and put the noose, which hangs from a chandelier, around his neck. The moment of the hanging, we see only his legs, kicking a little, then going still. ... Later on, we see a dead man who's been strung up by one ankle.
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Is someone tortured?
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katembers
No torture in the strict sense of the word. But some people do die in graphic manners on-screen.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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BiliousBecca
Guy gets thrown down the stairs
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Does someone cheat?
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malovela
Technically, no one cheats in the course of the movie's events. We're told that one of the characters, a woman whose husband hanged himself in the very beginning of the movie, participated in orgies without her husband on a regular basis while he was alive. We see her having sex with a man only a few days after her husband's suicide; some people might consider this a type of infidelity.
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malovela
A character self-immolates, but it must be said that he believes it won't harm him in the least. There may be other self-harm; I don't remember.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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malovela
There's a scene in which a character is standing/walking between bookcases that stand so close to each other that it made me feel slightly claustrophobic. Also, a man falls partway through a hole in the floor and gets stuck there with only his arms, shoulders and head sticking up; he stays in that predicament for a good while.
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invadermac
Movie starts with a man hanging himself
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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malovela
Strong sun-glare, prolonged shots of extensive fire, maybe more.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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malovela
No one is pregnant (and there are no babies).
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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BiliousBecca
A baby is heard crying, but we never see it
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Is there childbirth?
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No one is pregnant, and there are no babies.
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Are there abortions?
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malovela
No one is pregnant (and there are no babies).
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Does a pregnant person die?
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malovela
No one is pregnant (and there are no babies).
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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malovela
Intercourse, nudity and more.
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Sickness
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Sad? Nah. Happy? Unhappy? That depends on your perspective. We're not left feeling sorry for anyone, since the persons who come to a sticky end towards the end of the movie are ruthless, malevolently narcissistic Satan-worshippers. But if you're sincerely religious, you may consider the ending unhappy, since it seems the devil gets a living soul - a soul that gives itself willingly.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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malovela
To be honest, I can't remember whether someone is actually hit by a car, but I want to mention a scene in which someone is ALMOST hit by a car. He's walking along the road, realises that a driver is heading straight for him (obviously on purpose), and leaps to the side, unharmed. It does seem like the driver might only have wanted to scare him, but I imagine it could still be a trigger.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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malovela
We don't see a person drown, but we do see a person who has just been drowned. He's lying on his back in a shallow fountain basin, his face under water but clearly visible.
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