9 Found Footage Movies You Should Die Before You See
2. As Above So Below
Swipe an idea or two from Catacombs (2007), make the heroine a Lara Croft-style adventurer and youve got As Above So Below, the latest found footage movie from the director of The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) and Quarantine (2008). We know Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) is a globetrotting adventurer because we first meet her beneath the streets of Turkey, where shes raiding a tomb in pursuit of something or other. She looks like a model, has a black belt in Karate and speaks with a plummy English accent, so any resemblance to Lara is purely intentional. Arriving at an entrance inscribed with the words Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here, she decides to enter (wouldnt you?) and immediately starts seeing Hooded Figures, Creepy Kids and, for some reason, a burning VW Polo that suddenly vanishes. Its here that the film accomplishes what every found footage movie manages to achieve in its third act it goes off the rails and becomes a laugh riot.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
