AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Writer-director John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine) and his brother, co-writer Drew Dowdle, are old-school — they still believe in the found-footage genre. Scarlett and company, which includes Benji the documentarian (Edwin Hodge), have cameras clipped to their headlamps, and when they twist and turn in panic -- which is often — the action becomes an indecipherable blur. The talented cast works wonders with material that's a confusing hybrid of The Descent and The DaVinci Code (hieroglyphs abound). As Above, So Below features a gate to Hell and darting demons, but its most memorably weird moment is a sound effect younger viewers may barely recognize -- the long, persistent ring of a rotary phone. (Chuck Wilson
OVE, SO BELOW