MAGNUM P.I.: Season 5, Episode 19: Ashes To Ashes / Ep. 20: The Big Squeeze Plot Synopses & Air Date [NBC]
https://film-book.com/magnum-p-i-season-5-episode-19-ashes-to-ashes-ep-20-the-big-squeeze-plot-synopses-air-date-nbc/?feed_id=110935&_unique_id=659046c48252f
Aloha Friday deserves the look I give Just before I get a boot to the face on @magnumpi . . . . . #juliethiggins #magnumpicbs #perditaweeks #thomasmagnum #timkangofficial #magnum #zachknighton #magnumpi #jayhernandez #ncishawaii #stephenhill #tomselleck #that80sdude via @hashtagexpert https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLtiaSPimZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
from 2018 during press time for Magnum PI via twitter
"Get lei'd with #MagnumPI stars @jay_hernandez and @PerditaWeeks, as we test their Hawaiian knowledge before the premiere on Monday, September 24 at 9/8c!"
As Above, So Below got me. While not a great horror film, it contains good moments that make it worth your while. You can see the opportunities it misses but this time, the untapped potential is a forgivable offense.
Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) is following in her father’s footsteps and searching for the tomb of Nicolas Flamel, creator of the philosopher’s stone. Her journey has brought the young scholar and her friends to the catacombs of Paris, France, where they find something evil within the endless tunnels beneath the city.
The film’s got a solid setup. Can you think of anything creepier than crawling through abandoned passages beneath a place you don’t know, sifting through the bones of the dead? No one would dare... unless the juice was really worth the squeeze and the philosopher’s stone is just that. It's a compelling reason to go to such a creepy place, but this being a horror movie generates further intrigue. Eternal life could simply mean turning you into a zombie or preventing your spirit from leaving our world once your flesh finishes rotting.
The setting lends itself well to claustrophobic scares. As our heroes travel deeper into the bowels of this ancient tomb, they encounter “normal” dangers such as collapsing and flooded tunnels, and otherworldly threats as well. Tunnels that circle around inexplicably, visions from their’ past, nonsensical geometry that’s wild enough to drive you mad.
For the most part, the film focuses more on the frightening concept of the weird and inexplicable. We hardly ever see that kind of horror and the laws of physics we take for granted suddenly being upheavaled is an unexpected novelty. Where As Above, So Below becomes less effective is towards the end. Like many horror films, it suddenly runs out of things to do with its mysteries and begins relying on explaining things to fill its 93-minute running time. It becomes incrementally less scary once you know the rules of the catacombs and this story spells it out for you pretty clearly. It doesn’t ruin the dread completely, but it makes you wish the picture had taken more cues from other, more successful fright-fests like The Descent.
In As Above, So Below you will find another film shot from the first-person POV that didn’t really need to be made that way. The momentum it loses momentum towards the end is also worth noting. That’s hardly enough to dismiss the picture. This horror film tries something new by having the horror come from a location. Not from ghosts haunting a house, or from a mad slasher, no demons or zombies here either. For that, I found it refreshing and say it's worth checking out for horror enthusiasts. (On Blu-ray, July 31, 2016)
MAGNUM P.I.: Season 5, Episode 19: Ashes To Ashes TV Show Trailer [NBC]
https://film-book.com/magnum-p-i-season-5-episode-19-ashes-to-ashes-tv-show-trailer-nbc/?feed_id=108067&_unique_id=65819c5669435
Higgins in this week's Magnum PI. S04E08 A Fire In The Ashes #MagnumPI #Higgins #JulietHiggins #cbs #paramountplus #perditaweeks #afireintheashes (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXE99cVvN8t/?utm_medium=tumblr
Robert Lazzarini, Rated R for BLOODY VIOLENCE: TERROR AND LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT (As Above, So Below), 2021, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 ¼ x 96 inches . . . #paris #catacombs #gatesofhell #universalpictures #johnerickdowdle #asabovesobelow #stopviolence #philosophersstone #foundfootage #perditaweeks #benfeldman #thomastull #drewdowdle #ratedr #patrickaiello #legendarypictures #knightstemplar @universalpictures @perdita_weeks_ @benmfeldman @legendarypictures (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CREpt3InTGh/?utm_medium=tumblr
New to our Cult TV Essentials section: Lost in Austen #lostinausten #jemimarooper #hughbonnevile #elliotcowan #alexkingston #morvenchristie #perditaweeks #gemmaarterton https://www.instagram.com/p/CKtYSpblWyo/?igshid=il61y9hen9s2