Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Ninth Guest (1934)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by R. William Neill
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
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Eight strangers accept invitations to a party in a posh 50th floor apartment. Instead, they find themselves captive to an unseen host who plots to kill them one-by-one through the course of the night. Their captor speaks to them through a radio and the murders happen at the top of the hour, as indicated by a huge clock. The guests begin to suspect each other, leading to more violence. The final reveal of the host is a bit of a disappointment, his motivations impossible to guess beforehand.

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