John Erick Dowdle Archives

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 11, 2013Serial Killer Found Footage Film

Another Found Footage film, a mix of interviews and video footage supposedly recorded by a serial killer. Despite some initial amateurishness, the film soon gets a disturbing grip on you in depicting the astonishing cruelty and fiendishness of the killer

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Actors: Stacy Chbosky, Ron Harper

Category: Horror

11 July 20138 July 2022 by Roog

Quarantine (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 14, 2008Zombie Found Footage Film

English-language remake of the Spanish Found Footage film [Rec]. A lesser work but in the hands of John Erick Dowdle one of the few English-language horror remakes that stands up to the original

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Actors: Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Steve Harris, Johnathon Schaech, …

Category: Horror

14 December 200816 June 2021 by Roog

The Night Chronicles 1: Devil (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 20, 2010Trapped in an Elevator with The Devil

Clever concept of five people trapped in an elevator where one of them is The Devil. One of the better films to come out under the much debased name of M. Night Shyamalan who lends his name as producer

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Actors: Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O'Hara, Bojana Novakovic, …

Category: Horror

20 September 201030 September 2021 by Roog

As Above So Below (2014)

Rating: ★★

Aug 30, 2014Found Footage/Gateway to Hell

The Brothers Dowdle made the standout The Poughkeepsie Tapes but this is a sub-Da Vinci Code archaeological mystery that is little more than a Halloween haunted house attraction in the Paris catacombs

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Actors: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge

Category: Horror

30 August 201419 November 2025 by Roog