Catacombs (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | catacombs |
| Original title | As Above, So Below |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Erick Dowdle |
| script |
Drew Dowdle John Erick Dowdle |
| production |
Patrick Aiello Daniel Chuba Jamie Dixon Drew Dowdle |
| music | Keefus Ciancia |
| camera | Léo Hinstin |
| cut | Elliot Greenberg |
| occupation | |
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Catacombs (AKA As Above, So Below ) is an American horror film in the found-footage style, directed by John Erick Dowdle from the year 2014 . The leading roles are cast with Perdita Weeks and Ben Feldman .
The film opened in the United States on August 29, 2014 and in German cinemas on September 11, 2014.
action
The Archeology -Professorin Scarlett Marlowe travels to France, where they the Philosopher's Stone hopes to find. She is continuing the work of her father, who hanged himself. Together with an expedition team consisting of her colleague and former friend George, the documentary filmmaker Benji and three young specialists in catacombs, she penetrates the catacombs of Paris . In search of a mass grave from the time of the French Revolution and the holy stone, which supposedly promises immortality, the team gets lost and comes across a gruesome secret. After the stone has been successfully recovered, the way back leads through the gate of hell. In the tunnels, the individual team members are confronted with the sins of their past. As a result, half of the expedition members died with them. Towards the end, Scarlett notices that the stone he was looking for was not the one he was looking for and that its theft must have caused these uncanny circumstances. Alone she makes her way back to remove the curse. After returning, Scarlett and the remaining members of the expedition team get outside again by confessing their sins to each other and washing themselves clean of each other, whereupon a portal opens into the upper world.
production
Most of the filming took place on location in the real catacombs in order to better capture the claustrophobic atmosphere and to make the hysteria that develops among the young people understandable.
criticism
The film was received mostly negatively. On the film review site Rotten Tomatoes it received a rating of 27% from 60 reviews with an average rating of 4.4 / 10. Catacombs was also rated on Metacritic with just 38 out of 100 points from 23 reviews. For Markus Keuschnigg from DiePresse.com, on the other hand, the bottom line is that the film is one of the better horror films of 2014. The conclusion of his review was as follows: “Even if 'catacombs' in the last third exchanges the previously so impressively established eeriness for average moments of horror, the bottom line is one of the better horror films of this year. "
Web links
- Catacombs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Katakomben atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Catacombs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, September 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 391 K).
- ↑ a b Markus Keuschnigg: "Catacombs": The gateway to hell under Paris. In: DiePresse.com, September 14, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.