The 9th Guest

The 9th Guest

Their Host Was a Spectre … Their Hostess Disaster!

193465 min6.0 / 10

A locked-room mystery thriller where eight strangers face Death itself, blending paranoia and existential dread with the puzzle-box mechanics of a whodunit.

Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.

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