A few words on “As Above, So Below” (2014)

You have to give the makers of “As Above, So Below” a lot of credit for creativity and initiative. They were the first production team ever to get permission from the French government to film in the legendary catacombs beneath Paris. The film then makes great use of the location, and succeeds in establishing a great creepy atmosphere (and even though one of the principal actors had claustrophobia).

Still, this movie plods along during its first two thirds, trying in vain to derive scares from the same plot device as the classic (but now forgotten?) “Flatliners” (1990).

Then, in the final third, things pick up, and the movie succeeds in being scary. Not all the jump moments work, but many do.

It’s at least worth a look for horror fans.

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Reblogged this on Readsalot and commented:
I also remember another movie similar to this one that I had picked up for free from Blockbuster (anybody remember them?) about 8 years before this one called ‘Catacombs’.

Since its been so long since I’ve seen ‘ Catacombs’, I don’t recall if that one was also set in the catacombs below Paris. Aren’t there other European cities that have the same subterranean feature? Maybe not…

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