Combining elements from Tomb Raider and The Descent with Dante’s Inferno, As Above, So Below is a striking and unique film that cleverly exemplifies its title by finding the horror within this claustrophobia of the soul.

| Dec 22, 2022

Fulfilling its B-movie requirements with ample jolts and tension throughout, the low-budget production boasts a diverting storyline and some fun, cheap thrills for casual late-night viewers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2022

...filming in Paris’ actual catacombs gives the movie an undeniably spooky aura and oppressive claustrophobia.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2022

The characters in this movie are forced to relive their own ideas of hell. Mine would be having to watch this movie again.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Any inventiveness of As Above So Below wears off early on, but one would be remiss to not credit the film with at least generating a few scares, even if it doesn't live up to its potential.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 5, 2019

Despite the obvious banal traps it falls into, it offers an hour and a half of solid entertainment and a couple of scary moments. Fans of the genre will likely lap it up with glee.

| Mar 2, 2019

Nothing more than your typical horror film, with the cast dwindling to faceless pawns set up to create the next scare.

| Jan 25, 2019

As Above, So Below is often a lot of fun in its excited historical notations and it certainly provides a view of Paris not often seen. It's not a brilliant horror film, but it's decent and has enough unique elements to recommend it.

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2019

Dowdle has the skills to bring the best out of an enclosed setting à la Neil Marshall's fantastic The Descent. Shame the similarities end there.

| Oct 10, 2018

The Parisian catacombs are due to be featured in a great horror film. Unfortunately, As Above, So Below is not that film.

| Aug 21, 2018

The biggest problem is the movie's shallow portrayal of guilt, penance, and redemption. This is the heart of the film, it's what the quest is leading up to, and it is just a mess.

| Aug 8, 2018

Its success depends on the way it's presented to fully develop tension, as well as on a sensation of collective terror...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 30, 2018

As long as your content with watching stupid people do stupid things you'll obtain a modicum of fun from As Above, So Below

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2017

Apparently, these young adults are experts on urban planning, metallurgy, civil engineering, languages, Egyptian mythology and ancient mysticism, but their smarts are only matched by a lack of common sense and accountability.

| Original Score: D | Aug 17, 2017

It just isn't scary or clever enough and doesn't really gain momentum until a last minute dash towards a toe-curlingly obvious resolution.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 11, 2016

It's [Perdita Weeks'] strangely believable performance that saves the film from itself, planting us firmly in its corner, often against our will.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2016

This movie has a truly uninspired premise and wallows in so much inanity that it might as well have been buried in the catacombs, too.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2016

I have seen dozens of these "queasy-cam" vehicles in my 18 years as a writer of film, and so few of them ever surpass the limitations of their technique. This is one that carves out a spot in the upper tiers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2016

As Above gets lost down in the dark with its characters, rendering Dante's iconic warning equally relevant to an audience looking for original frights.

| Original Score: C | Mar 20, 2016

As Above, So Below is a film that gets in its own way as much as dead ends block the paths of its characters.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 2, 2015