The Ninth Gate

He's standing in the foyer watching the landscape roll by.

He says, if you've ever seen the movie The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp, that's exactly what the train scene looked like.

So he's standing there watching the landscape, stretching his legs when this woman with dark hair approaches him and she's got thick black glasses.

He said that she looked like one of the characters in Scooby-Doo in the 70s.

I just kind of jumped right in.

We're going to be talking about The Ninth Gate.

So I guess we'll go ahead and get started.

The release date is was March 10th, 2000, which I was like, this is 2000 because it was really giving me late 90s vibes.

And what does he do with them? He returns to the castle.

As he approaches, the gates open on their own, releasing an intense, brilliant light.

Corso walks forward and passes through the ninth gate, finally embarking on the journey that Balkan had desperately tried and failed to complete.

That's the end of the movie because we get no explanation about anything.

He's standing in the foyer watching the landscape roll by.

He says, if you've ever seen the movie The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp, that's exactly what the train scene looked like.

So he's standing there watching the landscape, stretching his legs when this woman with dark hair approaches him and she's got thick black glasses.

He said that she looked like one of the characters in Scooby-Doo in the 70s.

That's right

... and then kinda went away, and then kinda came back with the, like, The Ninth Gate and stuff like that.

So that, that, I, uh, guys that start out in that genre and then come back, I don't think you can count those.

I think the ones that are interesting are like what you said, like if, you know, if fucking, uh, Howard Hawks made a horror film, you know?

So a unique scenario may, you know, be, uh, learned or experienced through a film.

And so, like, ye- yeah, so Rosemary's Baby and The Ninth Gate are Roman Polanski films.

The Ninth Gate, I, I think Rosemary's Baby came out in '67, I think, which was before the Tate murder.

Yep, yep, yep.

And then The Ninth Gate came out in '99, which was 30 years after the Tate murder.

And if I could insert, Rosemary's Baby is, at the showing, the opening showing of it, was where, uh, Anton LaVey and Michael Aquino met.

Really? Okay.

... that's old stuff.

I was thinking like 13th Gate where where Johnny Depp wants to have like sex with the devil.

That was the sequel to Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp, where he also wanted to have sex with the devil.

Whatever.

I got the wrong name.

Also, though, by the way, fun fact, Ninth Gate, I enjoy the movie for what it is.

It's fine.

I like it.

But actually, if you watch this movie [laughs]...

Like, 1999 was a banner year for films in the US, but there's one called The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp, and they literally re-enact one of Crowley rituals right at the end-

Hmm

... which is the marriage of the scarlet woman and the beast, and Depp is the beast.

Okay.

Because, uh, Jay and I just, uh, covered The Ninth Gate too in our, our sort of spooky movies, uh, a couple months ago, so that's really interesting.

And, um-

Watch the end before he goes through the last gate.