John Erick Dowdle's As Above, So Below arrived late in the found footage game, but continues to be one of the finest examples of it.
A team of explorers embarks on an expedition into the dark labyrinth of the catacombs and ends up trapped by a cave-in. With their only option to keep venturing deeper and deeper into seemingly unexplored depths, the group begins to learn some dark and terrible truths about what’s down there.
Like all the best horror stories, it only comes to pass because of a character’s inflexible stubbornness.‘ Scarlett is headstrong, and it’s made very clear from the off that she’s willing to take big risks for the thrill of discovery. It’s this careless abandon that seals the group’s fate and drags the viewer along for an increasingly claustrophobic descent into an allegorical hell.
. The film makes subtle and unsubtle references to it via certain characters and story beats. The things the group experience on each floor of the catacombs reflects aspects of the circles of hell, so it’s no surprise that the climax especially draws from it, as logic and reason take one last hit. While that’s all well and good, the true power of As Above, So Below is in its ability to sell claustrophobia by actually utilizing those real-life tunnels. It understandably lends the events a stifling air of authenticity and matches the character’s own anxieties about going further into the catacombs.
Even as chaos reigns in the latter half of As Above, So Below, it never loses its tight grip on its disorientating, claustrophobic atmosphere. Just like haunted house movies compel some to go investigate real-life places with a history of haunting, this film makes the idea of going into those tunnels morbidly appealing and terrifying in equal measure.
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