As Above, So Below (film)
As Above, So Below is a 2014 American horror film[4] written and directed by John Erick Dowdle and co-written by his brother Drew. It is presented as found footage of a documentary crew's experience exploring the Catacombs of Paris. The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Universal Pictures, making it the first film in Legendary's deal with Universal.
Plot
Scarlett Marlowe illegally enters Iran to explore a historical cave system before the regime demolishes it. Minutes before the destruction of the caves, she finds a legendary statue within known as the "Rose Key", bearing ancient engravings in the Aramaic language. Scarlett successfully records the Rose Key inscriptions on video and flees, but when a strange man appears to call for her from the caves, she is caught in the collapse of the cave and just narrowly escapes.
Months later, Scarlett is filming a documentary with her cameraman Benji. The introduction reveals she is a young but accomplished professor of archeology and an alchemy scholar, continuing her father's hunt for the philosopher's stone after his suicide. The stone is a legendary alchemical substance capable of turning base metals into gold or silver and of granting eternal life, said to have been discovered by Nicolas Flamel.
Scarlett travels to Paris to find George, her former lover and an Aramaic translator, so that she can decipher the Rose Key. She finds him repairing a centuries-old church bell tower. With the Rose Key's translated text and information from Flamel's headstone, Scarlett deciphers the philosopher's stone is 370 feet below-ground in the Catacombs of Paris. The trio attend an official tour of the catacombs, but the section thought to contain the stone is off-limits. A stranger in the catacombs suggests that a man named Papillon can help and that he spends time in a certain club. When their backs are turned, the man disappears and they are forced to rejoin the tour.