AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (2104)

One sign of a good film, to me, is if the movie is still stuck in your head weeks later; you can't, somehow, stop thinking about it on the fringes of your mind, and when you do it still produces a visceral blip on your emotional radar.  Such is the case with As Above, So Below, one of those "hand-held camera" sort of films that have already grown out of favor by now, yet here fits the movie perfectly.  Scarlett (Perdita Weeks) is a brilliant archaeology student who speaks four languages and has multiple college degrees, whose search for an ancient artifact has her leading a small crew - including on-again, off-again partner George (Ben Feldman) - into the labyrinth of catacombs beneath the city of Paris that house the bones of thousands of the dead ... and maybe the ghosts that go with them.  The film, though classified as horror, is more the kind of scary movie that gets under your skin and stays there, as the deeper (and more off the charts) the group goes, the more claustrophobic and sinister things get.  More spiritual than you'd think, but that's why it works. (rated R)  B+

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