As Above, So Below Page #5

Synopsis: Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all.
Director(s): John Erick Dowdle
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
2014
93 min
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the first time someone

has shined

a light in this tunnel

for over 500 years.

It's the f***ing way out.

The treasure.

The treasure!

Someone give me a boost.

Be careful.

Scarlett, please be careful!

It's fine.

Careful.

Yeah. I'm good.

Scarlett?

Yeah.

What do you see?

My God!

My God!

What?

George, you have to see this!

My God!

What is this place?

He's dead.

Yeah.

He's dead,

but how is he not rotting?

I have no idea.

George, look at this.

What is that?

"VITRIOL."

Why VITRIOL?

It's the motto of alchemy.

VITRIOL?

Visit the interior

parts of the Earth,

by rectification thou shalt

find the hidden stone.

The hidden stone.

F***!

Is he dead?

Yeah.

For 700 years.

My God!

It's creepy.

Wait. Visit the interior

parts of the Earth.

He's telling us to go deeper.

I think it means we're here. No.

This has got to be the

interior parts of the Earth.

No, there has got to be more.

"Winged vulture leads your way,

with brightest

light in darkest day."

Brightest light in darkest day.

Everyone turn

off your headlamps.

Nah, f*** that.

Benji, it will be okay. There

is a dead man right there.

It will be okay.

Everyone.

Okay.

Scarlett?

Holy sh*t.

- Look!

- Yeah.

Where's this light coming

from if that's a wall?

Benji, turn your camera light on.

Please.

Scarlett, what are you doing?

I reckon we can

get through there.

Scarlett, what are you doing?

There's a loose stone.

Okay.

Can you see anything down there?

What is it? ZED:
Is something in there?

I'm going.

What? Scarlett, no!

Scarlett!

My God.

Sh*t!

Get out of the way.

You're going?

Yeah.

Zed.

What?

Give me my bag.

Is this it?

It's real.

It's real.

Holy sh*t!

Scarlett.

Benji.

Let's not celebrate

until we're out of here.

Scarlett, how are

these torches still lit?

The philosopher's stone can

fuel a lamp for eternity.

Where is it?

Where's the stone?

"Brightest light in darkest day."

Think about it.

Brightest light.

Yeah.

The Sun.

In ancient Egypt, they

said that the Earth god

and the sky goddess

were madly in love.

But when they had their

first child, the Sun,

he became so jealous of their

affections that he pushed them apart

so that they were

only able to touch

by the palms of their hands

and the soles of their feet.

Every morning, the sky

goddess gave birth

to the Sun,

and every evening

she would swallow him back up.

That's it!

My God.

It looks so ordinary.

What better place to hide the

most valuable stone ever known

than next to riches

you could never miss?

Wait. It's a trap.

Stop! It's a trap!

Stop! It's a trap! Wait!

Is everyone okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm good.

I am, yes.

Benji?

Scarlett?

I'm good!

Zed?

Let me see.

Souxie?

Souxie?

Souxie?

Souxie?

Souxie?

Souxie!

Get those rocks! Get her!

Sh*t!

Are you okay?

I'm okay.

Are you okay?

Okay, get her.

Sit. Are you hurt?

La Taupe?

Where's La Taupe?

La Taupe!

La Taupe!

La Taupe!

La Taupe!

Help me dig!

I don't think

that's a good idea.

He can't breathe!

Don't disturb the rocks!

George, they might

collapse on us!

F***!

We can't move the rocks.

We can't.

There's no use.

There's no use.

No use, Papillon?

No!

I need the first-aid kit.

I have to clean it.

No, don't touch it!

The packs are buried.

What do you mean they're buried?

They're buried!

Do we have anything?

Sorry, I'm sorry.

Where's our water?

Our food?

Do we have any batteries?

For the lights?

Yeah, we should start

conserving the lights.

Sh*t!

What do I do?

Just keep it up, so

that it stops bleeding.

Okay.

Okay. It's all right. It's okay.

This might sting.

Just a sting.

It's okay. It's okay.

Holy sh*t!

It really worked.

How did you do that?

It's the stone.

You okay?

Yeah.

It will be okay.

They'd never build something

like this without a back door,

in case it collapsed, right?

Never. There's

gotta be something else.

Look around.

Everybody look around.

What are we looking for?

I don't know.

Is there anything?

Some bones.

What is that?

Is that something?

Yes. Yes. Yes. George!

What is it?

It's the Porta Alchemica.

This is the door to the mystical!

Wait. This is a door?

That's a door?

No, not exactly. It works

in conjunction with this.

Here.

This is

"As above, so below."

That phrase is believed

to be the key to all magic.

It means that

what is within me

is outside of me.

As it is on Earth,

so it is in heaven.

As I am, so are my cells,

so are my atoms, so is God.

Basically,

as I believe the world

to be, so it is.

I'm not following.

As above, so below.

So if they carved

a door on the ceiling...

There has got to be a

door on the floor, too.

Yeah. Someone hand me a rock.

All right.

Wait. We are in the

bottom of the catacombs.

There's nothing

below us, Scarlett.

Sh*t.

If this is the floor then where

is all that water going?

There's a way out.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah.

Guys, there's a passage

down here.

Come down. It's okay.

Souxie.

Watch out, Benji.

Can you read that?

What does it say?

"Abandon all hope,

ye who enter here."

What?

According to mythology,

that's the inscription

over the gates of Hell.

What?

I'm not going in there.

I thought you didn't

believe in any of this.

I don't.

"And they shall be made

to crawl on their bellies

to enter

the kingdom of darkness."

Yeah, that occurred to me, too.

Yeah.

Sh*t.

F***.

It's exactly the same.

No. No, it's not.

It's not exactly the same.

Everything's

the wrong way around.

This is upside down.

Wait. No!

What?

No.

What the f***?

What happened to the entrance?

Jesus.

Are we dead?

No.

We're not dead.

We should just keep moving.

Okay?

We have to find a way out.

Come on.

Sh*t. Okay.

I go.

Souxie!

Souxie!

Is everybody out?

Yeah.

I don't have a light.

Do you have a light?

I can't find my light, either.

Do you see that?

Get the camera.

Be careful. Careful!

What is that?

Jesus.

Souxie.

No.

Souxie.

La Taupe?

La Taupe!

Are you okay?

La Taupe?

What the f***?

Sh*t!

Souxie, stay back!

Stay back!

Careful,

Benji. Careful.

The f*** is wrong with him?

What's wrong with him?

Hey.

It's okay.

- It's me.

- No, no, don't.

- Okay? Hey.

- Souxie, be careful.

La Taupe.

Souxie, don't.

His eyes.

Hey.

Souxie!

Souxie, no!

Benji!

Get a light on La Taupe!

Benji! He's over here!

Where is he?

Hold her head.

Where is he?

Where the f*** did he go?

The stone!

Bring her back, please!

It won't work. Fix her!

It will fix her!

Please try!

Try it! Please!

I'm trying. I'm sorry.

Fix her. Fix her.

It can't bring back the dead.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Is she dead?

I'm so sorry, man.

I'm so sorry.

We have to keep moving.

Okay?

George, you follow me. Yeah.

Okay.

I'm right behind you.

Okay.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Scarlett.

What?

What?

Everything is like the mirror image

of what we have already done,

but somehow,

we keep going deeper.

How much deeper?

Another 100 meters.

Putting us

1,000 feet down.

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John Erick Dowdle

John Erick Dowdle (born December 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for horror films. He usually works with his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and co-screenwriter. more…

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