The Pyramid

The only thing worse than Found Footage Horror, is lazy Found Footage Horror. You know? The kind where the camera is inexplicably in a room the crew have never been in before filming every single character while non-diegetic music plays and awful, awful CGI scarpers by? Yeah, that kind.

I didn't just think that The Pyramid wasn't a good movie, it honestly made me genuinely mad.

Final rating:½ - So bad its offensive.

The Pyramid is a found footage movie but part of a new wave along with As Above so Below released the same year.
I don't have a problem with the format, it allows the telling of a story from a different perspective to a regular film and if done right gets you closer to the event.
The story is a classic horror setup, the finding of a hitherto unknown pyramid and the evil that waits within.
The claustrophobic corridors and crawl spaces really work with the close camera work to ramp up the tension.
Horror often relies on protagonists making stupid decision, which is often infuriating.
Mostly the team were just overconfident, the events are beyond anything they could prepare for so I feel this film avoids that annoyance. There a...

The cast list probably fires enough warning shots for us to realise that this is going to be nonsense - and on that front, at least, it doesn't disappoint! A group of archaeologists are poking around inside a previously unexplored Egyptian pyramid when things start going bump in the dark. The building becomes a bit unstable, and next thing they are all being persecuted by a manifestation of Anubis, not best pleased that his slumbers have been disturbed. What now ensues, well you can easily guess. What makes this worse is that director Gregory Levasseur has decided that we are going to have to watch this as if we really were inside the structure. I'm guessing he hoped the darkness, the shadowy torch-light style photography (think "Blair Witc...

The first couple of members of the archeological team really go through some painful injuries. The characters do some stupid things (of course) and the creature is kind of neat until you notice how bad the CGI is. Nora and Sunni were fun to look at, but outside of that, there's nothing to see here.

The Pyramid starts off with a glimmer of hopeit sets up an interesting premise in the first act that had me thinking this might actually be a solid movie. But as the story transitions from the first to the second act, things quickly fall apart. What could have been a decent film turns into a frustrating experience, with the acting being barely convincing (if at all) and the script making strange, illogical choices that drain the life out of the story.

The characters make bizarre decisions that dont feel real, and their emotional reactions often come off as forced or inconsistent. Some scenes made me wonder if the actors themselves even understood what their characters were supposed to feel. Its hard to stay invested when the performances...