As Above, So Below

2014 Directed by John Erick Dowdle

The only way out is down.

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

Perdita Weeks Ben Feldman Edwin Hodge François Civil Marion Lambert Ali Marhyar Cosme Castro Hamid Djavadan Théo Cholbi Emy Lévy Roger Van Hool Olivia Csiky Trnka Hellyette Bess Aryan Rahimian Samuel Aouizerate Kaya Blocksage

Alternative Titles

Както горе, така и долу, Así en la Tierra como en el Infierno, Catacombes, A única saída, é descer, Париж: Город мёртвых, Derin Kabus

horror thriller

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Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 8

flirting is raiding tombs and solving deadly mysteries together. it’s ripping ancient tablets off the museum wall to hunt for clues while your crush reluctantly translates and nervously paces. it’s delving into the Paris catacombs despite your cave phobia because you’re secretly in love with this brilliant archaeologist even if you won’t admit it. it’s spending a week in a turkish jail for said archaeologist and complaining to her about it even though, god, it was the best week of your life.
flirting is crawling through claustrophobic tunnels of human bones, of gushing blood, until you find the entrance to the underworld. it’s her saying “according to mythology, this is the inscription on the gates of hell” and his responding “that occurred…
Review by DirkH ★★½ 10

In which the Goonies go to France and have a hell of a time.
Review by Mikael Stånggren ★★½ 6

Don't you just hate it when a film sets up its story really well, only to devolve into random nonsense? What starts off as a rather compelling adventure, in the derring-doing spirit of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones, loses credibility along the way, seemingly making things up as it goes.
Boasting such an abundant wealth of history, mythology and attention-grabbing exposition, there's a lot of interesting directions that could have been taken here. Not least when set in a location as creepy as the infamous Paris catacombs. But alas, somewhere in the creative process, the screenwriters chose...poorly.
An entertaining piece of urban spelunking nonetheless though. Consistently above boredom. Ever below excellence.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★½ 12

ya but why did they go through all of that for a rock
Review by Austin Gorski ★★★½ 12

"There are two-hundred miles of tunnels right beneath our feet."
We have yet another horror movie that really isn't a "horror" movie. The only true horror movie so far this year has been The Quiet Ones, and to say that one didn't deliver would be an understatement. Oculus was more like a psychological thriller, The Purge: Anarchy is more focused on the action than scares, Deliver Us From Evil was a supernatural crime movie, and now As Above, So Below is more like a adventure/horror hybrid. So, those of you going in expecting to be scared shitless will surely be disappointed (especially if you're one of those assholes who just loves jump scares), but on it's own terms, this film…
Review by dEL ★★½

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Review by McLove95 ★★½

That Harry Potter and National Treasure crossover was WILD.
Review by Noor ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Why he bite his neck like that?? like buy a bitch dinner first??
Review by himattchampion ★★★★★

cool, very cool. idk what else to say but i liked it a lot.
Review by masterjiggles ★★★★★

Excellent usage of found footage. Subjective camera taken to the max as a story telling device, by attaching the cameras to the cast, this film creates an immersive, surreal horror experience reminiscent to the style of Lovecraft. A fucking must see.
Review by alfie ★★

pewdiepie did it better
Review by busterk09 ★★★

A goofy Tomb Raider romp with some Silent Hill elements. It's a lot of fun but very silly. Don't expect to be wowed but expect to enjoy set pieces and emersion.
Review by Jonathancieters ★★★★

Found footage film. You either love it or hate it. Indien je dit genre wel graag hebt ga je alvast veel films tegenkomen waar je van denkt "dit is een studentenproject" (kijk maar naar de Grave Encounterfilms en hun goedkope CGI). Maar deze is veruit een va de beste found footage horrorfilms die ik ooit heb gezien. Spannend, creepy, mysterieus en oprecht eng. Verhaal is een beetje cliché maar niet slecht.
Speelt zich af in de catacomben onder Parijs (het enige onrealistische aan de film is dat Fransen Engels spreken...) en het heeft te maken met verschillende dimensies en legendes rond de catacomben.
Wat wel eng is, is de echte verdwijning van iemand in de catacomben. (Heeft niets met de…
Review by Isaac Murphy ★★★

One of the best uses of found footage Iv ever seen. Putting you in the feet of these characters is done so well and wouldn’t have been the same experience if it wasn’t found footage. The set is really great, reminded me of a Indiana Jones with more of an eerie tone. There’s was some great scenes in this movie with moments where the claustrophobia unsettled me and the acting was really brilliant on selling me this reality. Though there is points where the movie starts using annoying horror conventions like formulaic jump scares. Some really work, some are awful.
The dialogue never bugged me other then one line where the ceiling cracked and someone says “is that bad?”.
Review by marchemay ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

wanna take a romantic vacay to Paris, run around the catacombs, and come out of a manhole upside down