Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
As Above, So Below earns credit for its genuinely clever premise — blending Da Vinci Code-style archaeological mystery with found-footage horror in the Paris catacombs, using Dante's Inferno as a structural backbone. The setting is authentically claustrophobic and the cinematography makes strong use of the real catacombs for disorienting dread. However, the acting is uneven with characters making frustrating decisions, and the ending loses narrative coherence as the supernatural logic becomes muddled. The novelty is solid for the subgenre — the Hermetic/alchemical mystery angle distinguishes it — but it still leans on found-footage conventions. A competent mid-tier horror entry that punches above average in concept but below in execution of its finale.