One horror movie from 2014 received almost unanimously bad reviews, but it's actually a truly innovative film that is worth revisiting.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT It's not uncommon for lower-budget horror movies to receive bad reviews, but 2014's As Above, So Below remains an underappreciated little gem that is much better than its critical legacy suggests.
Some films in the genre become instant favorites, such as the modern horror movie classics Midsommar, The Conjuring, and Hereditary. These films break through the horror movie noise to become instantly re-watchable. While many other horror movies receive negative reviews and are mostly forgotten, As Above, So Below provides an interesting twist on a familiar trope and is worth revisiting years later.
Reviews of As Above, So Below also commonly claimed that the film tried to cram too much plot and exposition of mysterious history in a 93-minute film. As Above, So Below is about much more than a chase through the Paris underground, and audiences and critics got lost in the intertwining stories between myth and fiction. In the end, much of the criticism came back to the point that the setting of the Paris catacombs was the only original and interesting part of the film.
What As Above, So Below also does so well is to combine the traditional found-footage horror genre with an Indiana Jones-style archeological adventure, as characters Scarlett and George search for the fabled philosophers' stone. The film also draws on numerous literary references, including Dante's Inferno, as well as historical elements of the Knights Templar and Gnosticism.
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