Release Date: 29th August 2014
Certification: 15
Time: 93 minutes
Directed by: John Erick Dowdle
Starring: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, Francis Marion Lambert civilians
The remains of more than six million people are buried in the catacombs of Paris. Pile of skulls form patterns in the pile of bones that act as walls. Dark, quiet and anxious as hell, as above, so below intrepid group of adventurers, scientists and filmmakers sees travel through this landscape to seek a nightmare legendary treasure. Skills for the granting of untold riches and eternal life. They will put their personal, literal and metaphorical demons. Let the things that deflected in black, the be astonished with a great noise; This is another Footage Horror Movie found.
University Professor and adventurous young Scarlett, for example, in several languages (including some fatalities) and lead to foot. With multiple degrees, including one in the symbolics - an academic discipline by Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code made - to find it is described as a city archaeologist (also invented sounds), and travels the world in search of the legendary alchemical stone tools philosopher .
After a somewhat ridiculous opening sequence that sees its investigation into a network of tunnels in Iran, Scarlett discovers an engraved Aramaic at the resting place of the famous stone Flamel leads. Iran, who goes to Paris in hopes of an old friend, to find speak Aramaic; one of the dead languages, which Scarlett can not be read. According to the translation, they discover that, quite easily, the stone in the depths of the macabre labyrinth of tunnels that snake beneath the city is. So Scarlett, with his friend and cameraman George Benji Team with a group of cavers Paris venture into the nooks and crannies of the unexplored catacombs.
With a fun (if a little cheesy) premise, there are good ideas at work. Treasure hunt in the middle of the movie adds a new twist to the genre of found footage tired; The basic concept of As Above, So Below is a strange mix of Tomb Raider, The Descent and Solaris. Unfortunately, it never melts in a fully coherent story in its own right, and more about the obsolete clichés of films is based on Horror, the scattered in the latter parts of the film.
Worse still, the strange scenario largely lost. Apart from a few shaky through piles of skulls and bones pans beginning, the action can not be seen in large part by the work of scrapie camera shakes violently like an angry goose. Director John Erick Dowdle has experience in the genre of found footage in quarantine, but manages to be an edge visually ugly and incomprehensible, picture shock, which is sufficient is boring.
Heavy hand, po-face and not particularly scary, As above, so below is a bad film with some high net ideas. It's a shame that the themes of fear and strange position of alchemy and magic in what is a piece of tired, formulaic film involved.
★★ ☆☆☆
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