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John Erick Dowdle has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by As Above, So Below.
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When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle · With Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle · With Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Sterling Jerins

When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle · With Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Lou George
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle · With Chris Messina, Bojana Novaković, Jenny O'Hara

The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle · With Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Rory Culkin

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Dir. John Erick Dowdle · With Dania Ramirez, Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez