Thursday, 18 June 2015

Nothing makes sense, nothing is tense

As Above, So Below (2014)

Directed by John Erick Dowdle this film stars Perdita Weeks, Ben Fledman, Edwin Hodge and Francois Civil. Seeking to prove her father was not crazy a young archaeologist convinces a group to join her in looking for secrets in the Paris catacombs.

While there might some interesting elements to this film unfortunately they do not knit together, leave too much unexplained and the characters seem like an after thought. What we end up with is a pretty average horror film with a couple of interesting elements but is largely bunk. Making this a found footage film adds nothing really and most of the scares are created by jump editing rather than building out right tension or fear.


2/5

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