A team of intrepid archaeologists and documentary film makers become lost in the bowels of a mysterious 3-sided pyramid, where they find themselves faced with deadly pitfalls, menaced by flesh-eating sphinx cats and hunted by the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis, who tears out his victims' hearts.Many a found-footage horror film should carry a warning: Caution! May cause nausea and drowsiness. The Pyramid, however, is one of those rare instances where the hand-held camera style is not too intrusive and the horror aspect is gripping enough to prevent the viewer from nodding off.Admittedly, the script isn't all that original, borrowing heavily from hits such as The Descent (a claustrophobic subterranean location is home to deadly creatures), The Blair Witch Project (characters become lost and are attacked by a legendary being) and even Raiders of the Lost Ark (an Egyptian temple is laden with labyrinthine passageways and booby traps), but first-time director Grégory Levasseur injects enough suspense, effective scares, intriguing mythology and gory thrills into proceedings to make this a fun ride despite the over familiarity of the material and the rather ropey looking CGI Anubis.6/10. Many IMDb reviewers have been rather harsh about this film. I, on the other hand, may have been a touch too generous with my appraisal (I'm a sucker for 'lost temple' adventures). The truth is there are a lot worse films you could be wasting your time with.

Although it does have the occasional moments where it breaks that mold. Still it doesn't help. Having the brain of a ... or rather not having a brain at all, does not help the cause either. What might help, are some effects. Though the CGI in general is really dismal and the ones actually buried in a pyramid are likely to spin so much, that the protecting cloth probably falls off of them.But joking aside, this is a by the numbers affair, with your typical jump scares and your typical behavior (not very bright, even for so called intellectual people). The blonde female lead has done way better horror movies and while she is attractive enough to hold ones attention, this does not carry a movie itself ... To put it simply, I was really bored

Unearthing an unusual Egyptian pyramid, an archaeological team and a news-crew following them become trapped inside the tomb where they find a series of creatures inside with them and must battle the eternal creatures and the traps for them to get out alive.This here turned out to be quite the pedestrian if intriguing effort. What really tends to lower this one is the fact that it's filled to the brim with rather simple and overused scenes that give this one quite the overly familiar tone throughout here. The scares here are the same type of typical variations of scenes with extreme quiet broken by sudden outbursts of loud screechy noises or totally unexplained moments of something coming across the screen from out of nowhere that simply makes this one way too repetitive and familiar. When it moves away from these types of scenes, there's not a whole lot of elements here with this one just not featuring all that many scenes with this one going for them just being completely lost and wandering around complaining over each other about the situation or just yelling out into the darkness which aren't really all that enjoyable to sit through here. That also tends to stop this one with it's just plain abysmal CGI that really undoes a great deal with this one featuring some of the weakest and truly unconvincing work here with the main creature as well as the subservient ones just looking way too splotchy and unappealing which really doesn't look good here at all. There's still some solid and enjoyable parts here with the rather intriguing suspense scenes in this one. This one starts off rather nicely with the investigation of the pit and the resulting trap they set-off which gives this one the perfect setting of the ancient curses so commonly found here, the first exploration of the tunnel with the robot is quite creepy and mysterious with the fine excuse for venturing into the pyramid itself while that venture inside gives this one some solid fun here. The scenes in the pyramid where they discover the secret life of the ancient Egyptians makes for some creepy scenarios that set this one in motion and gives the film the kind of atmosphere and action that really could've made this one intriguing, and the big scene where they get trapped inside the tunnel is a rather enjoyable action set- piece. Once inside, these setups become all that much more fun with the pyramid not only containing several enjoyable and logical traps set for explorers but also finding the creatures stuck inside with them before getting on to the other giant creature trapped in there that gives this a much higher and enjoyable sense of fun here with the enhanced fun that comes from the strong series of encounters found here which really gives this one a lot of good action in the finale where they continually confront it and try to hide to get away. It's a great sense of action that ends this one nicely and helps to overcome some of the flaws but not all of them.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

Let me preface my review of this nonsense by saying that I am a fan of the horror genre, and more specifically, the "creature feature" sub-genre within the horror universe. I'm also a huge fan of the "found footage" style of filmmaking when it is done correctly, as it can add a layer of realism that cannot be found elsewhere. The reason i'm prefacing with these statements is to show that, despite all the negativity surrounding it, "The Pyramid" was a movie I thought I might enjoy. Unfortunately for me and my precious time, this was not the case. I could go into a verbose, analytical breakdown of why this movie is so bad but I won't, simply because this movie does not deserve the time or effort. I'm only writing this review so that I will, hopefully, save some of you folks an hour and twenty-nine minutes of precious time which can be spent doing something far more enjoyable. The script of "The Pyramid" is ludicrous, filled with horror clichés which have been rehashed a thousand times over, and none of which are done even remotely well. The special effects utilized in this film rely heavily on CGI, which in turn severely diminishes the realism the director was going for with the "found footage" style. The CGI isn't particularly good, either; scenes in which it is used feel overly cheesy and quite unrealistic. The painful special effects, along with bad writing and acting that oscillates from mediocre to terrible, come together to form the laughably incoherent experience that is "The Pyramid". And laughable is what this film is, whether it was intended to be or not(it wasn't). I found myself having a few "lol" moments during scenes that were meant to be scary, which obviously detracts from the whole horror thing the movie was aiming for. If "The Pyramid" was a marksman and horror was the bullseye, then the bullet hit the trees somewhere behind the target. If you still intend to watch this movie after all this, then take solace in the fact that you should get a good laugh or two along the way. In the end, there is no reason to mince words; "The Pyramid" is a bad movie, no matter how you draw it up. Seriously, you could spend your time doing almost anything else and receive more gratification from it(prison seems to be the only notable exception I can think of at this very moment). Please don't do anything that will land yourself in prison folks. If you do, however, at least you will be free from exposure to this movie. I give "The Pyramid" a 3/10 simply because it is not the worst movie I've ever seen. That isn't exactly a ringing endorsement, either.