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

thriller horror

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Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 9

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 11

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 Tony the Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★½ 2

I fucking love this movie. I saw it in the theater with a friend and we were the only ones there except for some dude sitting by himself down towards the front and the movie, along with his presence, just totally freaked us out. Great times!
Even on this umpteenth rewatch, it still induces quite a bit of anxiety. The further down they go, the creepier things get and the general depiction of Hell in this is one of my favorites ever put on film. I don’t seem to remember noticing before how attractive the actor playing Papillon is so that’s something new this time?
Also, I thoroughly enjoy any horror movie that critics trash and audiences enjoy and this was one of those movies.

Recent reviews

Review by Jonah Clark ★★★

Seen this a bunch of times, its just a lot of fun. There’s a whole bunch of horror movie bs you have to accept that’s never explained, and it’s really just a pretty bad movie overall, but I like it for some reason. I always have a good time with this one.
Review by Christian Decker 1

Grade: C+
Review by Adrian ★★★½

Sinceramente la recordaba más incoherente, pero ahora me agrada más
Review by tr3nt816 ★★★½

very cool! I loved the storyline of it being in the paris catacombs! very scary and good to watch last at night
Review by wickit ★½

Honestly, I laughed a lot. The one saving point to the movie for me was that it was shot on location... but the location really wasn't used enough. Bad CGI, bad arcs, bad jump scares, unbelievable characters and moments, YouTube video editing, it made for some really funny, goofy moments in the end.
Review by alexwatson94 ★★½

This movie probably fools some people into thinking it’s good just due to the average shit quality of found footage films.
The original setup for the cameras/documentary is nearly nonexistent. The characters are not very interesting.
The setting of the French catacombs are the selling point for this film. The cinematography does a good job of making the viewer feel claustrophobic and exudes a sense of dread. Also it does a good job with spatial awareness within the spaces of the tunnels.
The scares themselves are bleh, but I did appreciate the film trying to go for some psychological horror before it eventually went back to things jumping out at the camera.
I did appreciate the ending and felt it was earned enough.
Review by grossboi ★½

good symbology - poor execution.
not a fan of the adobe after effects essentials special fx
Review by Roy ★★½

*nearly gets crushed to death*
"We should keep moving."
*discovers creepy man who has been missing for years*
"We should keep moving."
*Souxie gets her fucking head caved in*
"We should keep moving."
*Benji falls 100 meters to his death*
"We should keep moving."
*Papillone gets sucked into a burning car and fucking disappears, then gets buried alive, head first*
"We should keep movin."
The movie itself is really bad but I just felt like being scared and it succeeded at that, so I'm not too disappointed.
Review by Joshua Trahern ★★½

Ah, spooky!!