As Above, So Below (2014) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for bloody violence/terror, and language throughout
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Two of the women performing rituals are briefly shown topless, while the rest have cloth wrapped around their entire torso.
  • Also some women can be seen dancing with tribal clothing with bare breasts.
  • In a catacomb chamber there is a group of women performing some sort of ritual. These women are wearing minimal clothing and we see flashes of several women in the group's breasts (covered in some sort of tribal paint), albeit very briefly. The camera is moving quickly over the group so it is sort of difficult to actually see the women.

Violence & Gore

  • Several men pull down a gate from a treasure room, resulting in a cave-in and five very terrified characters. They pull out a women from under the debris (blood is shown on her clothes). This scene is about twenty seconds.
  • A team opens a hole in abandoned railroad tracks in a tunnel and is hit on the head by some figure running toward them from deep within the tunnel; they struggle, scream and end up escaping.
  • A woman approaches a man, he grabs her and smashes her head into the ground.
  • There are scenes of characters having to duck under water and swim through a tunnel to climb out and escape into the only way forward through the catacombs. Later the water is replaced by blood, as you can imagine the characters end up covered with it.
  • A man is attacked by one of the creepy singing woman from earlier and falls to his death.
  • A man is confronted with a past atrocity and tries to run away and is pulled into a burning car which disintegrates into thin air. His legs are shown sticking out of the ground wiggling, he eventually dies.
  • A man has his throat gashed and is bleeding out.
  • A woman has her arm badly injured during a collapsing ceiling. She has it healed by the Philosopher's Stone.

Profanity

  • About 60 F-words and its derivatives spoken, muttered under breath, shouted etc.
  • 7 scatological terms (i.e. "shit").
  • 1 anatomical term (i.e "ass").
  • 9 mild obscenities (I.e. Hell).
  • 1 religious profanity (i.e. "goddammit").
  • 14 religious exclamations (e.g. "oh my god," "my god," goddamn" and "god," and "fucking cunt" (though not literally, some will take offense at the combination).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A woman drinks a bottle of beer and a man drinks a short glass of whiskey in a nightclub scene.
  • Mixed cocktails and short glasses of liquor are seen on tables around a nightclub.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A lot of rather disturbing religious architecture in the catacombs (or the gates of hell) may be disturbing to some.
  • This movie is VERY claustrophobic. Some severe claustrophobic scenes are prominent throughout.
  • There is at least one extended scene of a man who tries to make in through a tunnel, gets stuck, and completely panics. Characters have to crouch and duck down and squeeze through dark, dank scary tunnels most of the time once they reach the catacombs.
  • Some intense "jump scare" moments, when figures loom out of the dark or suddenly come charging at of characters, screaming.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A woman runs past the dead body of a male friend on the floor and scrapes bits of a stone onto an injured man's throat, which heals him instantly (little to some blood is shown).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • When you learn that the further the group go down it's them going through the layers of Hell, it adds another dimension of horror to the film. It's very creepy, very eerie and very unsettling

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