This summer season may have been the lowest in over a decade but did it's out of "Halloween weekend" horror thriller, As Above-So Below, bring movie goers to the box office, or close out the summer with another dud?
Take a professor, an intelligent translator, a less than courageous camera man, a group french spelunkers and a series of hallucinations inside the ancient French catacombs and you've got this movie. The premise, which plays on both the supernatural and historical, follows one professors journey to complete her fathers legacy by finding a stone, which location is revealed from ancient text. As Above-So below's biggest set back is its inability to actually define itself. In an era where we seemed to start moving past some of the old horror/thriller movie tropes with films like The Conjuring, You're Next, Oculus and so on, this movie seemed to take the worst tropes of the horror movies of days past and use them in an odd attempt to create a sense of eeriness that very quickly loses itself after the first 30 minutes of the film. From the "found footage shaky cam", to the "opaque white demon creatures," the female protagonist covered in blood, the useless kiss, the vague hallucinations, even the ending just sort of happens. The movies directionless journey feels like a handful of things you've already seen before but, it's strength is it leaves you with no questions to ask because no one would want to take this trip twice. I will give credit to it's promotional poster, which is quite fantastic.
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