As Above, So Below

The capital of France is far from such a romantic and pleasant city as you imagined it to be. Few people know, but there are miles of winding and gloomy catacombs under Paris. Defying danger, a team of young explorers, equipping themselves with everything they need, descends into these dark labyrinths. They did not know that they would encounter more than just the bones of long-dead people. A secret awaits them there, the secret of which the scouts will have to reveal at the cost of their fear, courage and even their lives. What began as an interesting adventure has become a challenge that presents the heroes with strange visions, people and objects from the past. And there is no way back, since the only passage back to civilization disappeared under the collapse. Read more To some extent, "Paris. The City of the Dead" resonates with Neil Marshall's film "The Descent". At the same time, these are completely different films, if we do not consider them related genre features. John Eric Dowdle worked with his brother Drew Dowdle on the script for the horror film about inner fears in the catacombs of Paris. Like the previous ones, the work of the director "Films from Poughkeepsie" and "Quarantine", "Paris. City of the Dead" was shot in the "found footage" genre. One of the pioneers of this type of cinema was "Cannibals Hell", and "Blair Witch" brought popularity. This film, which belongs to the niche of independent cinema, became the first film that was developed jointly by Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures. Horrors were really shot in real catacombs of Paris. This is a dungeon and a municipal crypt in which the bones of people who died from the end of the 18th to the end of the 19th century are collected. In France, the title "What's Above and Below" was very simply called "Catacombs". About three hundred girls were auditioned for the role of Scarlett. Edwin Hodge, like his character, is also prone to claustrophobia in life.