If you loved As Above, So Below, try The Poughkeepsie Tapes

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Poughkeepsie Tapes has roughly 5.1× fewer votes than As Above, So Below — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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As Above, So Below

2014 · dir. John Erick Dowdle

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The Poughkeepsie Tapes

2007 · dir. John Erick Dowdle

What they share

Both films are directed by John Erick Dowdle, and they sit in Horror / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to As Above, So Below, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Poughkeepsie Tapes is

Upstate New York. Autumn leaves. A box of tapes. Stacks of snuff film recovered from a killer's lair depict his methods and obsessions. The tapes also reveal one victim who lived, then disappeared again. Dowdle's found-footage film skirts the edge of torture-porn.

If you loved As Above, So Below, try The Poughkeepsie Tapes

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What they share

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