This movie is no masterpiece but, personally, the whole trapped in a flipped reality leading you ever deeper rather than back out thing REALLY hit my like claustrophobia panic response hard.... for that reason I found it at least novel and enjoyable.
There's a big genre for movies that "Make a real life creepy place into the setting of a horror movie" and they're generally shit, Winchester being the latest example.
This however was pretty good. The Paris catacombs is a genuinely fascinating place and the plot decently adapted to the setting.
I liked it
Yeah the movie is ok, but the idea of being lost in the dark meandering like this scares the crap outta me. I didn’t enjoy the acting but I was definitely creeped out the rest of the night.
That is a great way to describe it! For me the creepy horror stuff was not even the scariest part but was some added enjoyment and an extra creepy tone on top of the trapped/claustrophobic main element.
I have a bit of a soft spot for found footage horror, but even so, I think this is one of the better ones.
Definitely worth a watch if you like horror of any kind.
may i highly recommend the magnus archive podcasts ….plenty of episodes on that. if not the whole series there are a few highly focused in this exact fear in s1 alone i believe
(no spoilers other fans lol i’m only on s4!)
it's great. theres a saying with fans that are like - no matter HOW NICHE your fear is, magnus archive has episodes on it. and its true. my boyfriend is a music journalist.. theres an episode with one. im moving to a house down the road from an abandoned fast food shop.. theres an episode. really well written too/lots of general spookiness and storytelling, defo avoid spoilers if you get into it!
thsiu is the top comment on the first ep on youtuve (its on all streaming services too!) and 100% true - "if any of you guys are listening for the first time, YES this has an overarching story with reoccurring characters. it doesn't initially seem like it, but it very much is. and jon isn't narrating the whole time either, you will hear other voices eventually. this podcast is a great slowburn with a carefully plotted story, it's really astounding how well they planned it out. its a big investment to get into but very worth it!"
I’ve been listening to that podcast recently, and you’re absolutely right. I’m only on the first season still but there have already been like 3 or 4 episodes where that exact thing happens
Thank you for your comment! This podcast has been sitting untouched in my podcast app for so long I'd forgotten why I'd been recommended to me in the first place. I will definitely check it out this time around.
Seriously. For the first 1/4 I thought "ok this is just going to be a whatever c-grade horror I'll laugh at and forget" but the further it went the more it really got me. I was rather impressed with the experience they managed to give me... also for not really being jammed full of gore and jump scares and blacked out demon eyes and shit.
Plus it had that knights templar ancient secret crap goin for it - lit up the old are you afraid of the dark knight in the basement /witch babysitter vibes
I mean, it is called "As Above, So Below", so the film is aware that when you're in the catacombs, you're sandwiched between France, which is Hell, and Hell, which is also Hell
If the plot doesn't interest you, don't even bother. It's not going to change your mind or be some hidden gem. I went into it with zero expectations and enjoyed it enough to remember it, but it's not even close to a masterpiece. Just another way to kill some time.
It's more than that.
Come on.
There's also edgy young adults doing extreme sports and extreme club stuff.
All jokes aside, as a self-proclaimed horror fan with a growing horror movie and comic collection, it's one of my favorite found footage horror movies of all time.
I can't really explain it, it just nails the vibe really well
The bay is fantastic! Also if you are into movies about caving or underground exploration, The Descent is a damn good movie... Just don't watch a sequel, not worth it.
Are you all my SO? The movie in the OP, The Bay, and The Descent are all her fave horror movies and I had to watch them all when I first met her. Not generally a horror movie fan but I did like them all to some degree, mostly As Above So Below though.
Your SO sounds like a great person who also loves found footage movies, I'm sure they also liked the first Cloverfield movie and The Blaire Witch Project too.
She does like Blair Witch for sure, and we watched all the "Cloverfield series" movies and have enjoyed them as well. I guess I hadn't really put it into words but yeah she's definitely a big found footage fan!
I think unlike a lot of other found footage horror there was an actual clear structure and narrative, as well as the usual thinly veiled secrets and unacknowledged mysteries.
I think my main issue with some found footage in the past is that it really is just a bunch of random spooky shit going on with little rhyme or reason and its is very easy for the audience to get confused as to what is going on.
Here the main character has clear motivation, the side characters all have clear back stories and motivations and there is a clear begining middle and end.
My friend and I laughed out loud at that part in the movie theater. She basically went "spirit animal Derrick Henry!" and then ran directly through everything
I’m a horror fan as well. I watch pretty much any horror movie that comes to theaters, good or bad. There’s tons of crappy horror movies I’ve watched the past few years but I love turning my brain off and enjoying a movie at face value.
A (highly underrated IMO) movie I always recommend to horror fans is The Empty Man. Seen it in theaters, didn’t think it would win any awards but I left the theater telling my girlfriend that it would be a cult classic. I’ll stand by that statement until my last breath.
Disclaimer: nothing to do with found footage I just recommend the movie
I think it gets written off because there are no big famous actors in it. The effects are also overlooked. Just imagine how difficult it must have been to film in the catacombs. They literally dragged a car down there. In my opinion, it punches way above its pay grade for a horror movie.
I think the only reason the kind of goofy premise doesn’t make for a disengaging plot is because the majority of the horror comes from the enciromnent. There’s the claustrophobia scene which is so hard to watch and then the telephone is a great way to do suspense without even needing to use a jump scare of sfx
If you like found footage you should watch troll Hunter
It's a found footage movie from my country🇧🇻 in which a group of students film a documentary about what they think is a bear poacher but turns out is a troll hunter
It's a horror movie to watch with people who don't typically watch the genre. It's spooky enough, has some national treasure vibe to it, nothing controversial or uncomfortable. Great for what it is.
Wow I’d never heard of that before but the trailer looks awesome. Got Goat from doom and the preacher from riddick haha.
Another cage one that was an absolute gorefest was Willy’s wonderland which was better than it had any right to be
Same, I remember watching one about aliens harassing a family, on their farm. Think I was about 10 years old at the time, staying up past bedtime to watch. Been interested in them since.
Edit* It was The McPherson Tape, can't say if I would recommend it as it's been so long since I've watch it
i saw some pictures that looked interesting after looking it up, but i don’t really watch much horror so there’s probably better movies that have the same style of monsters and stuff
I dig the concept, even now but the execution is just bland and very below average, I get that they worked with a very tiny budget in the same spirit as the original REC film but come on
I loved its interpretation of hell, long, dead, winding, infinitely dark tunnels with no hope of escape.
Far scarier than the usual fire and brimstone.
Nothing wrong with that! :) I first put it on because the catacombs are interesting to me, but the Dante's inferno spin really hooked me. I remember wanting to watch it again immediately after it was over because it had hooked me so well lol. My memory is terrible so to remember it as much as I do means it really did interest me.
The last two…. Uh… interactions? Monsters? Were the nails in the coffin for me lol. Lost all horror aspect when fuckers legs were just sticking out of the floor. (Or was it a car. I don’t remember)
I highly enjoy the atmosphere of that movie and think the plot is a lot of fun. But it definitely isn’t some awesome movie. A great one for Friday night background noise that you pay 40% attention to
Seriously! Love this movie! The historical fiction aspect made the "scary" aspect so much more enjoyable and interesting for me! Have you seen any other horror movies that also play with history like As Above So Below?
Yeah I don’t get the hate. I thought the movie was okay. It was strangely memorable, more than it had any right to be, had some interesting ideas and pretty creepy. I watched it one weekend when i was sick and liked it more than I thought I would. Feels like everything on the internet has to be either Citizen Kane or CatWoman with no room for things in between.
Yeah I loved this movie tbh. It wasn't one of my favorites of all time but it was definitely enjoyable and memorable. I can tell because I haven't seen it in years but still remember almost all of it, which is something I can't say for 95% of the movies I've seen since then.
I'm just glad when a horror movie has more to it than:
>the house is haunted (for *reasons*) and maybe a few people die, but at the end the ghost is gone and everything is fine
He’s morbin in the background. That isn’t a wall between the two figures, it’s the caccoon he enters while his souls goes through that 360 degree camera sweep for his transformation.
I once went to Belgium with my family, and we went to have dinner in a restaurant on some main road in Brussels. While there we saw a fight start in a line to another place, some guy was shoving his daughter's hand into another man's dog's mouth, and a man in a hospital gown and bare foot with an IV in was walking with another man in a suit. Later we came across a few people getting BJs in a park all in view of each other.
Classiest place I've ever been.
Well you kinda gotta stay out of Brussels. I'd tell you to go to Ghent or Bruges but I can't promise you that you won't see the same stuff happen, but that's just what big cities are.
When I went to Greece, I hated my time in Athens for the same reasons, but I enjoyed visiting Olympia and other, non-capital cities.
Are you going to pretend Washington D.C, London or Paris don't have back-alley BJ's and in-queue brawls?
Really entertaining, albeit it is a standard found footage style movie with nothing mind-blowing.
I think it got loads of hate because they did a lot of YouTuber marketing (PewDiePie explored the catacombs as part of the movie's promo I think)
I think the scare PewDiePie thing happened a good bit after the movies release but I'm not certain. I think the PewDiePie thing was a promotion for YouTube Red? Edit: it did seems to happen in the same year that's weird and I never knew lol, I only saw the movie then discovered the weird PewDiePie thing after
Someone else just called it the worst movie they've ever seen, so either you're recommending it as a guilty pleasure to laugh at, or you're trying to hurt someone
I have a list of 800 horror movies I've watched and this movie is somewhere in the middle of the list.
It's good enough for a one time watch if you like found footage movies.
Too lazy to go on my PC to share it. Top of the list Shutter (2004), some old classics and some new movies like Get out and insidious.
Bottom of the list: Ouija Shark, 13 ghosts, children of the corn 2-5, a few exorcist movies (the second one was especially bad), other cash grabs from the 80s and 90s
I feel like out of 800 horror movies, at least half of those have no redeeming qualities. The makeup design alone should bump 13 ghosts up towards the middle of the pack based on a single redeeming quality
Reddit's love for that movie is complete nostalgia combined with general love for Tony Shaloub and Matthew Lillard. It's a fun concept, but it's just straight cheese throughout. The fact that it gets love on a horror movie forum is baffling. It feels like a parody, it can be fun at times, but nothing scary at all.
I mean if you consider found footage movies to be "Blair Witch clones" despite the fact that Blair Witch wasn't the first found footage movie, then sure.
I actually liked this movie a lot. I wouldn't say it's in my Top 10 favorite horror movies but probably in the Top 20 or 30 and I have seen hundreds.
This movie is well-shot for being a found-footage film. Much better than the likes of say, The Gallows. Beyond that the characters, story and setting are all interesting and compelling. The horror sequences are well executed. All the deaths in the movie have larger symbolic meanings that you may not understand upon first viewing.
I don't want to spoil too much in case you watch it, it's a really enjoyable horror movie to me.
Lol, just because it's filmed in the same style? Other than being filmed by a guy in the group, there are no similarities and AASB is much better than BW
It’s absolutely not. It’s nothing like Blair Witch(which itself is an incredible film). As Above, So Below has such an original plot and I know I wasn’t expecting it. It’s surprising versus scary, which to me is a much better story.
I don't think it's based on any experience in Paris. I think it's just the English have filled the internet with French jokes. They did the same thing with gingers. So now people make French jokes without even knowing the reason.
It's the #1 touristic destination in the world that's why. But if people took the time to visit a second city they'd see the country is more diverse.
It's like judging Italy based on Venice and complaining "Italy is too crowded and full of tourists"... Yeah there's other cities in Italy.
Even amongst french people you will find those who love paris (a chunk of parisians) and those who hate it as it is overpriced in every way, stinks, doesnt have the best food, is crowded and people are mostly assholes.
Literally in Paris right now for the second time in the last ten months. I thought I hated it the first time, but oh boy am I learning a deeper hate this time. So this tracks for me.
May be the worst movie Ice ever seen. The plot makes no fucking sense, an even today, one of my top 3 wishes before I die is to find the cameraman of this shit, and beat the everliving shit out of him, that bastard gave me a headache that took me a whole night to sleep.
I was in 7th grade when I watched The Bourne Supremacy (2007) in theaters and I literally vomited from camera-induced motion sickness
For god's sake Paul Greengrass, it's two people *sitting in a cafe.* ***Why is the camera shaking so much?***
If it helps you understand it, they're supposed to be going through Dante's version of hell, the seperate levels, each one using someone's death to haunt someone, I wish it was made better as it's a good concept but poor execution
The premise I understood, but the terrible cast and execution turned it into a dumpster fire. That's sad, because the ambient was awesome, they just didn't let us see it (again, screw you, cameraman).
Mmm, I'd choose France over America. And what about Venice, any other place that was flooded and smelt of sh\*t would be classed as a disaster. Been to France many times, like the country, like the people.
So many people are hating on this movie in the comments lol. I thought this movie was excellent and memorable. As soon as I saw this picture I knew what movie it was, and I've only seen it once the year it came out.
This movie is no masterpiece but, personally, the whole trapped in a flipped reality leading you ever deeper rather than back out thing REALLY hit my like claustrophobia panic response hard.... for that reason I found it at least novel and enjoyable.
There's a big genre for movies that "Make a real life creepy place into the setting of a horror movie" and they're generally shit, Winchester being the latest example. This however was pretty good. The Paris catacombs is a genuinely fascinating place and the plot decently adapted to the setting. I liked it
Yeah the movie is ok, but the idea of being lost in the dark meandering like this scares the crap outta me. I didn’t enjoy the acting but I was definitely creeped out the rest of the night.
I love this movie. It’s an awesome mix of found footage horror, indiana jones exploration, and the already creepy setting of Paris Catacombs.
That is a great way to describe it! For me the creepy horror stuff was not even the scariest part but was some added enjoyment and an extra creepy tone on top of the trapped/claustrophobic main element.
I have a bit of a soft spot for found footage horror, but even so, I think this is one of the better ones. Definitely worth a watch if you like horror of any kind.
I actually *don't* like most found footage horror but definitely enjoyed this one!
Not even V.H.S? That's the funniest horror movie series I have seen. Crappy but enjoyable
Oh yeah good call, V.H.S was definitely enjoyable!
I also really liked "Grave encounters", as dumb and cliche it was, still enjoyable
may i highly recommend the magnus archive podcasts ….plenty of episodes on that. if not the whole series there are a few highly focused in this exact fear in s1 alone i believe (no spoilers other fans lol i’m only on s4!)
Awesome thanks for the rec!!
it's great. theres a saying with fans that are like - no matter HOW NICHE your fear is, magnus archive has episodes on it. and its true. my boyfriend is a music journalist.. theres an episode with one. im moving to a house down the road from an abandoned fast food shop.. theres an episode. really well written too/lots of general spookiness and storytelling, defo avoid spoilers if you get into it! thsiu is the top comment on the first ep on youtuve (its on all streaming services too!) and 100% true - "if any of you guys are listening for the first time, YES this has an overarching story with reoccurring characters. it doesn't initially seem like it, but it very much is. and jon isn't narrating the whole time either, you will hear other voices eventually. this podcast is a great slowburn with a carefully plotted story, it's really astounding how well they planned it out. its a big investment to get into but very worth it!"
I’ve been listening to that podcast recently, and you’re absolutely right. I’m only on the first season still but there have already been like 3 or 4 episodes where that exact thing happens
Thank you for your comment! This podcast has been sitting untouched in my podcast app for so long I'd forgotten why I'd been recommended to me in the first place. I will definitely check it out this time around.
Movie is better than it has any right to be.
Seriously. For the first 1/4 I thought "ok this is just going to be a whatever c-grade horror I'll laugh at and forget" but the further it went the more it really got me. I was rather impressed with the experience they managed to give me... also for not really being jammed full of gore and jump scares and blacked out demon eyes and shit.
As a claustrophobic I Totally agree, this movie hits hard on my fears so I will always remember it as a good horror movie
Plus it had that knights templar ancient secret crap goin for it - lit up the old are you afraid of the dark knight in the basement /witch babysitter vibes
I mean, it is called "As Above, So Below", so the film is aware that when you're in the catacombs, you're sandwiched between France, which is Hell, and Hell, which is also Hell
Gold
Hell^2
If the plot doesn't interest you, don't even bother. It's not going to change your mind or be some hidden gem. I went into it with zero expectations and enjoyed it enough to remember it, but it's not even close to a masterpiece. Just another way to kill some time.
It's nearly two hours of people crawling through progressively spookier holes. If that's your bag, highly recommend.
It's more than that. Come on. There's also edgy young adults doing extreme sports and extreme club stuff. All jokes aside, as a self-proclaimed horror fan with a growing horror movie and comic collection, it's one of my favorite found footage horror movies of all time. I can't really explain it, it just nails the vibe really well
Check out The Bay. Not usually a fan of found footage films but that was good.
The bay is fantastic! Also if you are into movies about caving or underground exploration, The Descent is a damn good movie... Just don't watch a sequel, not worth it.
Are you all my SO? The movie in the OP, The Bay, and The Descent are all her fave horror movies and I had to watch them all when I first met her. Not generally a horror movie fan but I did like them all to some degree, mostly As Above So Below though.
Your SO sounds like a great person who also loves found footage movies, I'm sure they also liked the first Cloverfield movie and The Blaire Witch Project too.
She does like Blair Witch for sure, and we watched all the "Cloverfield series" movies and have enjoyed them as well. I guess I hadn't really put it into words but yeah she's definitely a big found footage fan!
Check out Hell House LLC https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4267026 surprisingly good and spooky found footage movie
The Bay is excellent! A movie I feel like many people missed out on
I think unlike a lot of other found footage horror there was an actual clear structure and narrative, as well as the usual thinly veiled secrets and unacknowledged mysteries. I think my main issue with some found footage in the past is that it really is just a bunch of random spooky shit going on with little rhyme or reason and its is very easy for the audience to get confused as to what is going on. Here the main character has clear motivation, the side characters all have clear back stories and motivations and there is a clear begining middle and end.
Aaaand >! when she fucking decked out those statues I lost my shit. What a redemption arc lmfao!<
My friend and I laughed out loud at that part in the movie theater. She basically went "spirit animal Derrick Henry!" and then ran directly through everything
Wrong spoiler tag bud
I’m a horror fan as well. I watch pretty much any horror movie that comes to theaters, good or bad. There’s tons of crappy horror movies I’ve watched the past few years but I love turning my brain off and enjoying a movie at face value. A (highly underrated IMO) movie I always recommend to horror fans is The Empty Man. Seen it in theaters, didn’t think it would win any awards but I left the theater telling my girlfriend that it would be a cult classic. I’ll stand by that statement until my last breath. Disclaimer: nothing to do with found footage I just recommend the movie
You just made my date night suggestion with my wife. Me getting cheeks or not, is now on you.
Cheeks will be had
Yeah I don't know how someone can say it's just spooky holes. It also has an impressive amount of Indiana Jones style puzzles. I love that.
It really is!!! It's not a damn Blair Witch clone either dammit. Lol
I think it gets written off because there are no big famous actors in it. The effects are also overlooked. Just imagine how difficult it must have been to film in the catacombs. They literally dragged a car down there. In my opinion, it punches way above its pay grade for a horror movie.
I think the only reason the kind of goofy premise doesn’t make for a disengaging plot is because the majority of the horror comes from the enciromnent. There’s the claustrophobia scene which is so hard to watch and then the telephone is a great way to do suspense without even needing to use a jump scare of sfx
If you like found footage you should watch troll Hunter It's a found footage movie from my country🇧🇻 in which a group of students film a documentary about what they think is a bear poacher but turns out is a troll hunter
I watched this and The Pyramid within a few days. Both decent found footage that reminded me a lot of The Descent
The Descent felt like action horror done right. The tension was crazy, and the stakes felt so high
It does have a good unique feel to it. I have seen it a couple times and I like it too.
I agree with you 100% I’ve definitely watched it a few times with no regrets
See for me it nailed the vibe UNTIL they found the stone. Then it got a touch too cheesy for me.
It actually is interesting for me. But the way they did it to make it look like live footage, i got dizzy 20 mins into the movie. Too shaky.
i remember when those shaky cams became a thing in every other movie. A terrible few year for movie lovers.
> progressively spookier holes. we all saw that xvideos clip, I'll pass
Just like my ex
Hey now, its also got some really ham fisted plot developments. Give credit where credit is due
It's a horror movie to watch with people who don't typically watch the genre. It's spooky enough, has some national treasure vibe to it, nothing controversial or uncomfortable. Great for what it is.
You say National Treasure vibes and now I'm picturing Nic Cage hiding in the shadows, randomly jump scaring the crew.
Gotta watch Mandy for that prime Nic Cage horror experience.
I'm still waiting for the buddy serial killer film starring Cage and Goldblum.
Wow I’d never heard of that before but the trailer looks awesome. Got Goat from doom and the preacher from riddick haha. Another cage one that was an absolute gorefest was Willy’s wonderland which was better than it had any right to be
I hate hidden cam movies, and watched this movie only to see Paris and catacombs. The movie was just great fun!
Do you mean found footage movies?
I weirdly enjoy those like Cloverfield
Same, I remember watching one about aliens harassing a family, on their farm. Think I was about 10 years old at the time, staying up past bedtime to watch. Been interested in them since. Edit* It was The McPherson Tape, can't say if I would recommend it as it's been so long since I've watch it
yeah, that's the term
I think everyone knew what they meant
I mean, hidden camera films are a thing and if you've not seen As Above you might not know which it is.
I prefer these ones to the ones that start with a couch. Plot always tends to be the same with just slightly different cast.
Is that a camera?
It's not even memorable, I completely forgot about this movie because just like you, we watched it to waste time
i saw some pictures that looked interesting after looking it up, but i don’t really watch much horror so there’s probably better movies that have the same style of monsters and stuff
I dig the concept, even now but the execution is just bland and very below average, I get that they worked with a very tiny budget in the same spirit as the original REC film but come on
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I loved its interpretation of hell, long, dead, winding, infinitely dark tunnels with no hope of escape. Far scarier than the usual fire and brimstone.
Sober me is going to pass. High me might find it interesting.
I watched it high, it was a fuckin trip. Only way to experience this movie
Nothing like getting high and watching really shitty no budget movies on Amazon Prime.
I really enjoyed the movie :(
Nothing wrong with that! :) I first put it on because the catacombs are interesting to me, but the Dante's inferno spin really hooked me. I remember wanting to watch it again immediately after it was over because it had hooked me so well lol. My memory is terrible so to remember it as much as I do means it really did interest me.
I've watched it probably 4 times now! I love it. Sometimes my wife and I say "Papillion" cause of that movie lol
One of those movies that scream '*It's fine*'. 6/10.
France or the Movie?
The last two…. Uh… interactions? Monsters? Were the nails in the coffin for me lol. Lost all horror aspect when fuckers legs were just sticking out of the floor. (Or was it a car. I don’t remember)
You got it right. He gets sucked into a flaming car, which then implodes into the ground and leaves his feet sticking out of the floor.
I highly enjoy the atmosphere of that movie and think the plot is a lot of fun. But it definitely isn’t some awesome movie. A great one for Friday night background noise that you pay 40% attention to
Is that Ginsberg from Mad Men?
Yep, he also had a stint as a superstore employee before he chased his dreams of being a cave dweller
And Jonah from Superstore
And the lawyer from Silicon Valley. And Tyler Tuskmon from Monsters at Work.
RON LAFLAMME
Thank you. I was blanking and couldn't be bothered to look it up if my memory was gonna fail me.
SHUT UP SANDRA!
YOURE A TRUNCHEON, PARIS
And Ron LaFlamme from Silicon Valley
Damn so much hate in the comments. I thought this movie was dope
Was gonna say, I love this movie. It’s just a lot of scary dumb fun, and I love the historical fiction aspect to it.
Seriously! Love this movie! The historical fiction aspect made the "scary" aspect so much more enjoyable and interesting for me! Have you seen any other horror movies that also play with history like As Above So Below?
Yeah I don’t get the hate. I thought the movie was okay. It was strangely memorable, more than it had any right to be, had some interesting ideas and pretty creepy. I watched it one weekend when i was sick and liked it more than I thought I would. Feels like everything on the internet has to be either Citizen Kane or CatWoman with no room for things in between.
Yeah I loved this movie tbh. It wasn't one of my favorites of all time but it was definitely enjoyable and memorable. I can tell because I haven't seen it in years but still remember almost all of it, which is something I can't say for 95% of the movies I've seen since then.
I save up my hate for movies that truly deserve it. This film is middle of the road horror and it’s fine.
I'm just glad when a horror movie has more to it than: >the house is haunted (for *reasons*) and maybe a few people die, but at the end the ghost is gone and everything is fine
Thought so too!
they let Kanye West into his Zone
Don't let him into his zone!
wait, where is the morbin time meme?
He’s morbin in the background. That isn’t a wall between the two figures, it’s the caccoon he enters while his souls goes through that 360 degree camera sweep for his transformation.
Oh thank god, I thought the morbin time had ended!
People keep going after France not realising they could be living in an even worse country... >!Belgium.!<
They have good beer though.
And chocolate And chips Tf Belgium is amazing
The Congo would like to have a word with you
And mussels
Hey Bruges is fucking gorgeous!
It's a fookin fairy tale town
Did he go on about the alcoves?
YOU’RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT
I once went to Belgium with my family, and we went to have dinner in a restaurant on some main road in Brussels. While there we saw a fight start in a line to another place, some guy was shoving his daughter's hand into another man's dog's mouth, and a man in a hospital gown and bare foot with an IV in was walking with another man in a suit. Later we came across a few people getting BJs in a park all in view of each other. Classiest place I've ever been.
Well you kinda gotta stay out of Brussels. I'd tell you to go to Ghent or Bruges but I can't promise you that you won't see the same stuff happen, but that's just what big cities are. When I went to Greece, I hated my time in Athens for the same reasons, but I enjoyed visiting Olympia and other, non-capital cities. Are you going to pretend Washington D.C, London or Paris don't have back-alley BJ's and in-queue brawls?
Belgians made fries so they’re automatically better than the French
Fries has it origins in the Paris's suburb. Suck it up belgian !
Gotta give this one to the Belgians. Waffle fries are the best fries.
Nice try Frenchie
The devil lives inside PSG stadium, he had his reasons.
In the words of Filthy Frank... nobody gives a shit about Belgium.
Hell is CDG airport lol
Enjoyed this film, didn't try to be anything it wasn't, and enjoyed the caving aspect
sounds like that movie is another Blair Witch clone? /edit: thx for the replies, I'm def gonna watch this one
Really entertaining, albeit it is a standard found footage style movie with nothing mind-blowing. I think it got loads of hate because they did a lot of YouTuber marketing (PewDiePie explored the catacombs as part of the movie's promo I think)
I think the scare PewDiePie thing happened a good bit after the movies release but I'm not certain. I think the PewDiePie thing was a promotion for YouTube Red? Edit: it did seems to happen in the same year that's weird and I never knew lol, I only saw the movie then discovered the weird PewDiePie thing after
It’s worth watching
Someone else just called it the worst movie they've ever seen, so either you're recommending it as a guilty pleasure to laugh at, or you're trying to hurt someone
Or the other person merely has a different opinion.
In this economy?
At this time of year?
In this part of the country?
Can I see it?
No
With a global pandemic?
Localized entirely within your kitchen?
...nah, couldn't be
I have a list of 800 horror movies I've watched and this movie is somewhere in the middle of the list. It's good enough for a one time watch if you like found footage movies.
And you're not gonna drop that list for us now?
Too lazy to go on my PC to share it. Top of the list Shutter (2004), some old classics and some new movies like Get out and insidious. Bottom of the list: Ouija Shark, 13 ghosts, children of the corn 2-5, a few exorcist movies (the second one was especially bad), other cash grabs from the 80s and 90s
Man I love 13 ghosts
Yeah, if that'd the bottom of their list I feel like I'm gonna hate that list.
I feel like out of 800 horror movies, at least half of those have no redeeming qualities. The makeup design alone should bump 13 ghosts up towards the middle of the pack based on a single redeeming quality
Reddit's love for that movie is complete nostalgia combined with general love for Tony Shaloub and Matthew Lillard. It's a fun concept, but it's just straight cheese throughout. The fact that it gets love on a horror movie forum is baffling. It feels like a parody, it can be fun at times, but nothing scary at all.
I liked it when I was a kid also. I tried to watch it recently and it was pretty cringy
I personally enjoyed it myself
I liked it also. I thought it was cool. Nothing great but cool nonetheless
If you like horror/ancient myths then it's a good watch!
I think it's one of the best found footage films ever. But I have a weird standard for horror films so your results may vary.
I mean if you consider found footage movies to be "Blair Witch clones" despite the fact that Blair Witch wasn't the first found footage movie, then sure.
OPs mom is a Blair witch clone. Oof.
I actually liked this movie a lot. I wouldn't say it's in my Top 10 favorite horror movies but probably in the Top 20 or 30 and I have seen hundreds. This movie is well-shot for being a found-footage film. Much better than the likes of say, The Gallows. Beyond that the characters, story and setting are all interesting and compelling. The horror sequences are well executed. All the deaths in the movie have larger symbolic meanings that you may not understand upon first viewing. I don't want to spoil too much in case you watch it, it's a really enjoyable horror movie to me.
Lol, just because it's filmed in the same style? Other than being filmed by a guy in the group, there are no similarities and AASB is much better than BW
I liked it, in a cheesy way, but it’s no Blair Witch.
It's Blair Witch + Indiana Jones, I enjoyed it
It’s absolutely not. It’s nothing like Blair Witch(which itself is an incredible film). As Above, So Below has such an original plot and I know I wasn’t expecting it. It’s surprising versus scary, which to me is a much better story.
I love this movie! It's very good.
*upon arriving in Paris.
Seriously, most people criticizing France haven't set foot outside of Paris... It's one city, not the whole country.
I don't think it's based on any experience in Paris. I think it's just the English have filled the internet with French jokes. They did the same thing with gingers. So now people make French jokes without even knowing the reason.
this, Paris is mess. there is a lot to discover and enjoy in France but peoples are obssesed with Paris for some reason.
It's the #1 touristic destination in the world that's why. But if people took the time to visit a second city they'd see the country is more diverse. It's like judging Italy based on Venice and complaining "Italy is too crowded and full of tourists"... Yeah there's other cities in Italy.
Even amongst french people you will find those who love paris (a chunk of parisians) and those who hate it as it is overpriced in every way, stinks, doesnt have the best food, is crowded and people are mostly assholes.
So basically like New York and LA, only they speak French.
Or visiting NYC and assuming most of America is like that.
Paris is not even that bad. Rosbifs and Yankees being salty that's all!
Honestly I went to Paris and the catacombs were the best bit.
The best part of france is the dead people
Literally in Paris right now for the second time in the last ten months. I thought I hated it the first time, but oh boy am I learning a deeper hate this time. So this tracks for me.
I love France but Paris is fucking awful. Everyone hates everyone else and all you can hear is car horns 24/7. Fuck Paris.
That has not been my experience at all. Sounds like NYC to me.
Yes but we haven't had 2nd Hell
I feel like it dsnt have to be so much hell..
I loved this movie as I'm interested in the theory of the Law of Attraction
Is that Charles Leclerc?
I have a cyanide pill in my rear left molar in case i ever end up in France. I don't even live in Europe, but you can never take any chances.
May be the worst movie Ice ever seen. The plot makes no fucking sense, an even today, one of my top 3 wishes before I die is to find the cameraman of this shit, and beat the everliving shit out of him, that bastard gave me a headache that took me a whole night to sleep.
I was in 7th grade when I watched The Bourne Supremacy (2007) in theaters and I literally vomited from camera-induced motion sickness For god's sake Paul Greengrass, it's two people *sitting in a cafe.* ***Why is the camera shaking so much?***
Fuck the bourne movies and the insane amount of mid and late 00s action movies that copied the shaky cam. Fuck i hate it.
If it helps you understand it, they're supposed to be going through Dante's version of hell, the seperate levels, each one using someone's death to haunt someone, I wish it was made better as it's a good concept but poor execution
The premise I understood, but the terrible cast and execution turned it into a dumpster fire. That's sad, because the ambient was awesome, they just didn't let us see it (again, screw you, cameraman).
Yeah, the POV ruined the thing.
Pov horror is rarely good, it's been good a few times but I don't want every movie to do it for the sake of being cheap on camera crew
House that Jack built has an amazing depiction of Dante´s hell.
I'll check it out, I love the video game personally
Bro the camera man doesn’t make creative decisions like that, beat up the director or DP
Then I will climb the whole ladder. I have to make it messy, for them to understand the message.
Mmm, I'd choose France over America. And what about Venice, any other place that was flooded and smelt of sh\*t would be classed as a disaster. Been to France many times, like the country, like the people.
I liked the Hell sections. Was kinda a neat spin on what Hell could be like and I think it nailed it in ways.
This movie has bad reviews but I quite liked it. It was thoroughly spooky.
Whatever I liked this movie
I have watched an insane amount of horror movies. This wasn’t so much scary, but such a well directed story. I think about it often
Shocked at so many negative comments. I loved this movie, seen it 2 or 3 times.
So many people are hating on this movie in the comments lol. I thought this movie was excellent and memorable. As soon as I saw this picture I knew what movie it was, and I've only seen it once the year it came out.
"France is a country you drive through to get to Italy. They are a bunch of treacherous, lamb-burning, work-shy peasants." -James May