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John Erick Dowdle
‘As Above/So Below’ Scrapes Bottom of Barrel
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 29, 2014 - 4:16pmRating: 0.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – “As Above/So Below” is strictly the pits. It’s a found footage horror film set in the Paris catacombs that defies logic, and relentlessly keeps digging itself into a hole until it’s dragged everyone in the audience down with it. It’s a movie that starts at stupid and then somehow proceeds to get progressively dumber and dumber, until it’s completely nonsensical and insane – and not in a good way. It’s quite simply the longest 90 minutes I’ve spent in a theater all year.
Awful Execution Fails Clever Concept of ‘Devil’
Submitted by BrianTT on September 17, 2010 - 1:51amRating: 1.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Being a hardcore fan of anthology series like “The Twilight Zone” and “Tales From the Crypt,” the simple set-up of “Devil,” the new horror film based on a story by and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, intrigued me — five people are stuck in an elevator and one turns out to be the devil. Sadly, the concept is the only interesting thing about this horribly-executed tale from the dull side of the genre.