The Ninth Configuration fingerprintA , horror movie: , but never scary, .
Good for friends night · thought-provoking · adults
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The Ninth Configuration1980
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In the United States, The Ninth Configuration streams on Prime, Night Flight+, Screambox, Midnight Pulp, and Shout! Factory, and it is free with ads on The Roku, Kanopy, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Fawesome, Cineverse, Tubi TV, and Amazon MX Player. It also streams in 129 other countries.
Mostly, it's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 65 (IMDb 6.7, Rotten Tomatoes 80%, and Metacritic 46).
Now and then: the humor is mostly dark humor (7 of 10) and absurd humor (6 of 10).
It's more unsettling than scary: the title analysis rates it 8 of 10 for uncanny and 7 for tension, but 3 for scares.
TV Tropes lists 48 tropes for it, including Black Face, Brick Joke, and Chekhov's Skill.
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