i really like your "journey" theory here. what just doesn't add up in your theory is "saying yes" each step of the way. unless, not shown on-screen, Corso was the one killing the people in each gate!? he definitely was the last person those dead people saw when they were alive. Also Corso didn't seem all that motivated to find the gate itself. so why in the end did he enter? might've missed his turning point.

@@ThreeEyedJuan Ive always wondered why he told Balkan at the castle that he, Corso, was the only apparition Balkan would see that night when as far as Corso knew all the pages were authentic. Did he think Balkan was doing the ritual incorrectly or was he just trying to psyche Balkan out of succeeding? Obviously at that point Corso fully believed a supernatural experience was possible with the book or he wouldntve pulled the gun and demanded the pages so he wasnt dismissing Balkan's belief in the supernatural by saying it wouldnt work. An aside: I hope everyone noticed during the opening credits that the camera took us thru 9 gates after entering the space where the book should have been.

Balkan was such an expert but he didnt notice that he was giving his witch talk to an audience of whom one member, The Girl, was the Devil...

@@ThreeEyedJuan That's a scary idea that Corso killed them all.

@alecarter2542 , and, @ThreeEyedJuan, and, @watermelonlalala, you all sound rite to me, however, did yall miss the airplane talk with the girl, who told him she's his protector, and, she also told him that 'he is still playing the game, and, it's over for, Balkan, before his death?, also, how is it possible Corso never sees any of her supernatural abilities, I just stumbled on to this movie, I've always wanted to see it, but.... I'm here for #BarbaraJefford 🥰 🎭 #LustForAvampire1971? 💖 aka Baroness Kessler 😍 I wish I could have met her, she was an exquisite beauty 👄❤️‍🔥💯 Rest Easy Angel 💐🙏😇

yes. i am a huge follower and dont care about Polanski's other films. I have analyzed every scene and engraving. one of the best movies ever.

Finally got round to it after my dad watched it and said it’s good and it is indeed.

One of my favourite movies of all time, despite the bad critics. I especially love Frank Langellas performance. He's the secret star of the movie.

I recall it getting lost in the shuffle of the post-‘Devils Advocate’ satanic apocalypse movie fad of the late 90s. You had this, Stigmata and End of Days all coming out around the same time.

@@johansmallberries9874 Yeah. I do recall the same.

have you read the book......the one by Perez Reverte?

@@David-og7di I bought it instantly after the 1 st view. Amazing

this is brilliant!

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I've been to that same street where the scaffolding falls/ Hermanos Ceniza Shop is.

This is fantastic and it makes sense. See the theories before stated that it also didnt work for Balkin because he was more 'materialistic' than Corso, which is not right. I dont think materialism has anything to do with it. Your theory seems right in that it was corso who did the journey and not Balkin, so the whore of babylon attached to him.

@@flint2001where is it?

You just gave me an idea for my next trip to plan: visit all the main location in the movie, if posible in order. I love this movie. . Something to look forward.

I was lucky enough to live in Paris for 6 months on a work placement and went to see some of the places. I saw the cafe he spends the whole day hiding from the albino and the place on the river Sienne where she floats down to save Corso. Would love to have seen the castle from the ending but I think it's really far south almost on the Spanish border.

I live near the castle if you want pics/vids

​@@laurentquintana262 where is it?

Jim: the Château de Puivert The Ninth Gate was filmed at the Parisian Hotel Cayre and the Château de Ferrieres near Paris. Balkan raises the devil in the Château de Puivert, the castle where the Catholic Church began the crusades against the Cathars, the heretics of the South of France.

Exactly this! Experiencing the journey itself is the only way through all the nine gates. Though it is never clear if Corso ever understands this? If so, it is also a matter of Pride not to tell that vital information to Balkan.

in addition, Corso the one that gain the preference of the whore of babylon, sonce the begginig she is disaligned (scene of the chair) to balkan

Balkan was wanting to rush ahead to tbe front of the line through murder and greed. Corso stayed more true to the "path" of learning, which the Devil wanted him to do. Balkan's passion for the Devil was driven by greed. Corso's passion was driven by knowledge. Even the Devil has standards, as Corso never tried to kill for becoming the level of Satan, he merely attempted to gain it through learning and respected that. Balkan didn't respect this, and died as a result.

Balkan is more like a gate, just used as a follower to carve the path

Remember how we meet the girl. She is actually at Balkan's presentation about the occult. I've always thought the devil was there because of this thinking "You were so close Boris...so close"

Beautiful in stride. Heart and Pride.

Heart and Pride

Hearts and Prides

Heels and Heads

@Bouja Strook Unfortunately not. Both the Nine Gates and the book upon which it was based, the Delomelanicon (the one allegedly written by Lucifer on which the "true" engravings are based) were invented by Arturo Perez Reverte, the author of El Club Dumas (the novel adapted by the movie). The concept behind the Delomelanicon itself was inspired by the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire invented by HP Lovecraft that appears in many of his works (there have been numerous attempts to write and publish the work for real, all of which are listed here if you're interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon). The aesthetic of the Nine Gates, meanwhile, was based on the 1499 book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an anonymous work (though certain theories attribute it either to Leon Alberti or even Lorenzo de Medici- though the most likely author was Francesco Colonna- while the illustrations have sometimes been attributed to Botticelli) in the medieval Romance genre following a young man on a quest to be reunited with his lover which takes him through a heavily allegorical dream world. There is a version of the Nine Gates that was actually written and which you can buy (www.amazon.es/Delomelanicon-Novem-Portis-Dark-Angel/dp/1387300237) but it's of very poor quality and clearly an amateur publication (I used to have an eBook version translated into Spanish). So to sum up, no the book is not real even though a version of it was written inspired by Perez Reverte's book/Polanski's movie. If you're interested in that sort of thing, however, I can recommend a number of real grimoires (real inasmuch as they are historically authentic; whether they actually work or not I'll leave up to the individual's beliefs). Even if like me you are highly sceptical of the supernatural, they make for a fascinating read. The Sefer Raziel HaMalakh is one of the oldest complete grimoires still widely available (dating from the 13th century, though many parts are thought to be older). Likewise the Picatrix (a 13th century Latin translation of the 11th century Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm), and the (probably) 13th century Sworn Book of Honorious (not to be confused with the Grimoire of Pope Honorious, a 17th or 18th century forgery- which also makes for an interesting read, by the way). Moving forward a bit we have the 15th century Key of Solomon (not to be confused with the 17th century Lesser Key of Solomon), and the 16th century Three Books on Occult Philosophy by Agrippa, which are absolutely essential reading for any student of the occult (there is a fourth book as well, but that one is a forgery). Both the aforementioned Lesser Key of Solomon and the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum are useful reference texts since they list in great detail the various ranks of demons that appear in most "mainstream" philosophies of the occult. The 17th century Book of Abramelin is also worthy of mention. Moving still further forward we have the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, copies of which first emerged in the 18th century (though they claimed to be based on texts written by Moses himself). Finally, for an example of a highly successful modern grimoire we must look to Gerald Gardner's Book of Shadows (first distributed in the early 1950s), the text on which the modern Wiccan religion is based. Of course this list is a very vague overview listing only some of the most well-known titles (many of which have nothing to do with each other thematically). But it does serve as a useful overview for anyone interested in delving into the study of grimoires in general.

Yeah, I noticed that too

I was about to write about this. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. I doubt that's a coincidence.

It annoys me that Corso never pressed the girl for a name. Cause I'm sure she is Lucifer (LCF)

nice catch mate

@@Anonassassin she's not, she's the ninth gate in order to achieve LCF

That is how I always viewed it. He was able to get past her defensive moves and she resigned (gave him permission to examine her copy when she said she was impressed by his idea). The lady at the front desk was a pawn that let him enter, and her assistant stood upright and walked in a rigid straight line like a rook.

True!

That's right 👌

Well.. he only had 2 heads not seven.

The girl (harloth of babylon) was the only one who accepted Corso, he was indeed lucky, Balkan would never been acepted as he didnt complete the other 8 Gates prophecies of the engravings. Every gate had a cost and only Corso completed them. I belive that the Girl disapperances was related on helping other possible candidates, or she was watching others fail and pleasured from their deaths like the telfer woman murder.

Hey, thanks for that. I knew going in I would get hate for my voice (and that's fine). Thanks for supporting independent channels and independent voices (pardon the pun, couldn't resist).

That is so Iconically ironic,....I LOVE IT! I can't recall when it happened, exactly, But being a fan of Stephen King, from watching THIS film of R. Polannski, I noticed the illustrations looked most like Tarot cards, I started creating Artwork (Graphic art images from Stephen King movies, I made a list of the main major Arcana cards--- And noting what images might represent the titles/names of the cards, and so far, The Very FIRST card I came up with was I created a Pennywise image and designated it as The Tarot Arcana card titled "THE DEVIL", and a picture formed in my mind of the Autistic girl, Annie, from the made for tv film Rose Red, with a storm of boulders and a cutout of the actual house they used in the movie, I made my image of Annie holding and looking over a mini bouquet of red roses with Stars centered inside them To represent the Tarot card the Five of Pentacles. (For the 5 people who died in their quest to assist the main researcher in her attempt to PROVE that the ancient antiquated estate house was really A HAUNTED and ACTIVE LIVING object,) THEN came a more challenging subject for a Tarot image card.... Finding a CLEAR image to Attempt to Represent the Tarot card called, THE HERMIT. Apparently it was easier than I thought, because I found a GREAT CLEAR HEAD SHOT IMAGE OF MR. JOHNNY DEPP, Himself, as the Mort Rainey character from King's film, Secret Window.... :)And It just seemed to "FIT" with the meaning of the Hermit card... As Rainey HOLED himself up in the Cabin trying to deal with the betrayal of his wife, And was shown to be going crazy, insane trying to make some sort of sense of his sudden traumatic experience of walking in his bedroom in HIS house only to see the image of HIS wife loving (Activly!) another, man, IN HIS BED!!! And well, yeah, To put His own crazy, insanity, to rest, He "Simply Had to KILL THEM BOTH, in order to regain back his own Sanity and Satisfy the Hunger of the darker, malicious "Alternate Persona"of "John Shooter." who Suddenly appeared not long after Rainey Decided He was going to Claim the Cabin home as HIS NEW HOME after His wife demanded to get divorced. EXCELLENT FILM, showing how being alone for TOO long, can (and sometimes Does) cause OTHER aspects of Our own Darker sides to decide to emerge to assure us that WE aren't the Crazy ones after all.... It's all the People AROUND US who are the crazy People!! :) working on a couple more ideas for a "HANGED MAN, and THE LOVERS as well as THE PRIESTESS," and THE CHARIOT (Tarot Cards).

Woman was created below new yard birds lyrics

Correct. I 100% agree with this.She is the beast.

Then who is the naked woman riding the Beast?.. No. She was riding him, taming/initiating, and beasts are supposed to be less smart than human beings. He barely caught up with Balkan's pace, and the girl had been steps ahead from them both. After this initiation Corso regains his masculinity: he wants (finally!) not money, the answers, and not afraid of anything.

It is really a shame he unjustly is blacklisted and not casted for new projects. Such a waste of talent and of course problematic to say the least.

@ JARED RUBIN.....One of Mine too!!! Secret Window is Soooo Under rated,... But one of MY Favorites! I actually created some images from Stephen King movies... To use in my Horror Art Portfolio.... And I actually am working on an idea for a Concept project for creating a Stephen King Tarot Card Deck! I actually did a DECENT Colored Pencil/inked Artwork piece of Johnny Depp as The Mort Rainey Character from Secret Window!! It took me a while to find a Good enough Good Clear head shot of him in the Hat and glasses, But I Found ONE!!! I made for the Tarot card (Major Arcana cards) The Hermit. LOL :) Then I found a good Horrific image of the TIM CURRY (Pennywise Clown) and labeled it for the tarot card "The Devil." and currently I'm working on a "Hanged Man" Tarot Major Arcana card and conceptualizing the Basement "Flying" Monster from Graveyard Shift. :) OH and I EVEN went on Ebay a few years back and Bought a DVD COPY of Johnny Depp;s Movie, FROM HELL! THERE'S ANOTHER VERY UNDER RATED FILM!! Of course, I guess a person has to have a creative Fascination for murder mysteries, Horror themes, and Jack The Ripper to be able to enjoy that film. And it also co stars one, Mister, Robbie Coltrane as a Police investigator (in his "PRE-- Hagrid" film history. And Ian Holmes, (PRE-- BILBO BAGGINS Days). But the main Stars are Johnny Depp and Heather Graham.

@@4Just1Girl another good 1 is NIGHTMARE ALLEY, with BRADELEY COOPER. excellent film. it was cool to see him in a movie where he is not acting a fool with a bunch pf people. although LIMITLESS WAS NOT BAD. but nightmare alley is a real deal, great movie, with awesome producers like GUILLERMO DEL TORRO. who is 1 of the best

@@jaredrubin7843 If you have NOT seen it, yet, One of Del Totoro;s REALLY SURREAL films is The Orphanage! It freaked me out the FIRST time I watched it, But then I was actually amazed the 2nd time I sat down to watch it, I coSuldn't understand how much I "GOT" the symbolisms in it, until I viewed it as an artistic piece of Surrealism in media arts. For some reason I can get into the Surrealisms of Art or media films /tv, etc... And I can SEE things differently than the person next to me is watching the same thing, but then later exclaims.... :What the HELL was that I just watched? And What was the point of it? Some people just don't "get it." LOL :) :)

compared to this flick the secret window is garbage

Ari Aster is very good, the short movie of the afroamerican family was indeed disturbing, like midsommar ugly boyfriend.

yup they pulled the string on the Scaffolding ...ROTFLMAO 4 your wisdom as your fellow movie goer

Did you get to finish the book? :)

@@MrVuJaDe He’s gone through the gate.

@@MrVuJaDe I will answer if I read it this summer hahaha

take a step forward ...lol

Thanks for watching.

I ♥️ your comment, I own the film and am watching it tonight, after I make dinner, maybe we can do this next time sometime

very true

It's on Tubi if you have a Roku or smart TV...

It's on hulu

It’s on Hulu now

It’s on Hulu

@Tom of All Trades --- He also "Rips it all up" in the movie CryBaby!!! OH and.... NO ONE ELSE BUT JOHNNY DEPP could have SUCCESSFULLY pulled off The Mort Rainey character in the Stephen King film, Secret Window!!!

I agree. Corso is weak, gullible, and not too swift on the uptake. I can't see him as the chosen lord of hell.

@@edennis8578 Yeah, maybe the devil just thought he was just a likeable guy?... I mean wouldn't like prime Johnny Depp?

@@edennis8578 perfect people would not be lords of hell...

ohh nice catch!

I thought the very same

He just made most of that up. Goofy.

@@watermelonlalala the staring dog engraving was pure coincidence?

@@joejones9520 I liked the dog bit. I don't know why this video seemed very arbitrary to me when I saw it.

Hey, thanks!

@@CineG no problem!

Why is there light shining out of the kingdom of shadows?

I already own the Balkan edition and all 9 LCF engravings.

@@joea363 I managed to find and download the whole book, with all the repeating latin texts and good quality drawings. I'll be printing them off this week. Not sure if I'll print the whole book out, although it would be cool to make a copy. Soooo much ink and time to do the whole thing :-(

@@jeffreybarton1297 Just FYI, you can also obtain a perfect replica of each of the three books. I own an exact copy of the Balkan book, right down the scuff mark. I cannot see any differences in my edition and the one appears in the movie, both in terms of the interior pages and illustrations as well as in the cover and the binding. I found it on Esty.

@@joea363 Wow! Thanks Joe, I'll check that out! It would be pretty cool to have a copy on my shelf :-)

@@joea363 Couldn't resist it. Got the Deluxe Balkan edition with the extra postcard and drawings :-)

GREAT ASSOCIATIONS AND CONNECTIONS.... REAL LIFE IS JUST SO AMAZINGLY IRONIC SOMETIMES, Isn't it?!?!

maybe Torchia planned to go thru the gates himself but was persecuted and not allowed to travel so before they arrested him he hid them in the books?

Yes. Eventually he wanted the knowledge and to enter into the 9th gate.

@@Moonewitch well, that reminds me of Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, which could be the monks' obsession, but if you read the Dumas Club I wonder if that's the motive, like Event Horizon, they are obsessed with pain as pleasure. I am still wondering the obsession with hell has a sadomasochist underpinning.

aren't we all at this point? anyone in the comments or watching the video at least :D

its the best of the best

Certainly best gothic, occult movie.

Yes I love it I own 2 copies on dvd and own the book and drew all the pictures in the book from the movie 🎥

may i know the name of the place please

@@elhamtavakoli5022 sure my friend. It is the Château de Puivert. I have some pics if you want. Add me on facebook username : Lau rent. Once the lockdown is over I am planning to go back there. Many scenes from the llast part of the movie were shot in my area.

@@laurentquintana262 thank you

In France ?

@@Mophonic yes !

I was looking for this comment. When I watched this movie I immediately thought about the book of revelations and how symbolic it was! This movie is so intriguing

@@JadeGraf it’s clearly about the Revelation but it’s also adaption of the Novel which inspired the movie Club Dumas so there’s a lil tweak that might not be entirely the revelation

Why not? I think they tried to be most creative associating scenes and symbols to the engravings. Thanks for watching.

Or the entrance to the ninth gate, boarded up for Ballkan - you shall not pass!

and the taxi door with "please do not slam door" on the backwards sign.

or maybe the owner of three books.

Could be between Corso and Frida. Frida is the devil expert but Corso showed her the secret is hidden in three books

No.

How about Lilith?

@Jordan Smith --- Can you simply imagine a dissection and analysis of Nastasia Kinski/ Malcolm McDowell's Cat People?? Or Elijah Wood's THE FACULTY??,

You get to talk with an Angel cast out of heaven. . . . In the book "The Club Dumas". . .Corso and the Green Eyed Girl (demoness) discuss Milton's Paradise Lost (I like books) view of the Devil, of a lonely abandoned Angel sitting alone in an empty banquet hall, after the party is over. Waiting for when God will forgive him and let him and his followers back into Heaven.

@@katsu-graphics5634 Ok thanx. Sounds reasonable then.