Review of The Pyramid (2014) by T-Manmoviez — 26 Apr 2015

The Pyramid is a found footage horror-film that was released on December 5, 2014. The events in the movie are suggested to have taken place in the Egypt desert in August of 2013. A research team finds a three sided pyramid in the desert and before shutting down the project completely they decide to take a peek inside.

While I think the story itself had potential, the implementation was not particularly awesome. Part of that (, for me,) might have been because I felt reminded to 'As Above, So Below' a lot. A superior horrorfilm with almost the same premise, that did the implementation way better than 'The Pyramid' ( by the way, I'm not entirely sure if writers and or producers/directors worked on both movies ).

That is not to say the movie is all bad. In fact it is strongest in the beginning. I was genuinely excited when things started going south for the group and it became apparent that it was only going to get worse. There was also a scene where one could get a short glimpse of what was lurking in the pyramid in a doorway. Nevertheless this was about the scariest thing in the whole movie to me. Different folks, different phobes I guess. Eventually, I thought a 4 out of 10 was fair.

The reasoning behind that is that the characters are all very typecast and stereotypical, you don't really care about too many of them. The suggested monsters and scary features inside the pyramid are not very scary to begin with, which is a shame because with a setting like that there was simply so much more to be done and what supposedly was intended to be the horror and possibly even the plot twist at the end turned out to be just...kind of...weird.

The pyramid is not the worst movie you will have seen in your entire life and it is not free of entertainment. With a couple of buddies and beer there will be some merit to it, even if it is just to comment on and criticise the characters behaviour.

So, in the end, a movie that could have been way better than it turned out to be due to wasted potential.

To watch it or don not watch it? That is the question.