As Above, So Below Reviews
It's tough to get too worked up, as head-mounted cameras whip between fleeting figures and panicked faces with all the tension of a jittery recording of a trip through your local haunted house.
| Sep 3, 2014
Once upon a time, when someone in a horror movie turned a doorknob or drove toward a storm, you got to feel superior and shout, "Don't go in there!" Now it's more like, "Seriously? You're not gonna put down that camera first?"
| Sep 2, 2014
Once the characters go underground, things start happening. Not scary things, mind you, but things.
| Aug 31, 2014
Has a few scares up its sleeve ...
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2014
The movie's signature signage - "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" - is the only instruction we really need.
| Aug 29, 2014
"As Above, So Below" is novel enough to be worth the price of admission, but you'll think twice before getting back in line for a second visit.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 29, 2014
Sometimes it's annoying. Sometimes it's disgusting. Most of the time it's too murky to be either.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2014
Despite some cool ideas that suggest Dowdle and company will make a great scary movie someday, this is eminently skippable.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2014
While the film has a reasonably engaging cast and some decent scares, the script feels like an uneasy blend of The Blair Witch Project and Tomb Raider.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2014
An entertainment-free sinkhole of Dramamine-worthy nonsense ...
| Aug 29, 2014
An intriguing and intensely creepy premise is sqaundered on this rudimentary found-footage horror film.
| Aug 29, 2014
As forewarned, so avoid.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 29, 2014
Like other movies of its ilk, it's missing a very simple bit of next-level Hollywood technology: a tripod.
| Original Score: C | Aug 29, 2014
But alas: once our team gets underground, the film turns into an FPS video game, and a poorly built one, at that.
| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 29, 2014
One of the world's top disturbing tourist attractions is now finally getting the spooky film it deserves
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2014
The film predictably alternates in scaring its characters by tapping into their deepest fears and having them rub shoulders with the relics of a past that insists on being undisturbed.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 28, 2014
There are some interestingly contrived moments of claustrophobia and surreal lunacy, but this cliched and slightly hand-me-down script neither scares nor amuses very satisfyingly.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2014
Throughout, there are flickers of a scarier movie: one prepared to map this boneyard, with its wrong turns and false floors, altogether more rigorously.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2014
Come for the poster, stay for the end credits.
| Aug 20, 2014
For those hoping to find some truly disturbing secrets buried for generations beneath the surface, track down Gary Sherman's 1972 "Death Line" (aka "Raw Meat") instead.
| Aug 20, 2014