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The Pyramid

5.3

Released December 04, 2014Runtime 1h 29min

You Only Enter Once.

An archaeological team attempt to unlock the secrets of a lost pyramid only to find themselves hunted by an insidious creature.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Silvatar Media

Fox International Productions

Sahara Productions

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $6,500,000
Revenue: $16,861,137
Profit/Loss: $10,361,137

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Cast

Ashley GraceNora

Denis O'HareHolden

James BuckleyFitzie

Amir KMichael Zahir

Christa NicolaSunni

Joseph BeddelemTaxi driver

Faycal AttouguiCorporal Shadid

Philip ShelleyProvost

Omar BenbrahimChubby Intern

Chakir El FaaizSkinny Digger

Ait Hamou Amine8 Year Old Boy

Crew

Grégory LevasseurDirector

Erin ConnarnScript Supervisor

Heidi El AyoubiFirst Assistant Director

Daniel MeersandWriter

Nick SimonWriter

Alexandre AjaProducer

Mark CantonProducer

Justine RaczkiewiczExecutive Producer

Robert O. KaplanExecutive Producer

Scott C. SilverProducer

Samy LayaniLine Producer

Michael HothornCasting

Chady Eli MattarProducer

Pavlina HatoupisCo-Producer

David HopwoodCo-Producer

Jinane Ben ZaidaProduction Coordinator

Alfred S. NewmanExecutive Producer

Sarah Domeier LindoCasting Assistant

Mohamed HefzyProducer

Nima FakhraraOriginal Music Composer

Marco TrentiniProduction Design

Alessandro SantucciArt Direction

Alessandra QuerzolaSet Decoration

Essouci ZakiaCostume Design

Scott C. SilverEditor

Cedric ProustStunt Coordinator

Emmanuel AugeardSound Designer

Samira BejjoudiSet Costumer

Oliver OjeilVisual Effects Supervisor

Guy FrancoeurFoley

Casey CurtisVFX Artist

Derek WentworthVisual Effects Supervisor

Laurent TangyDirector of Photography

Hicham AfghaniProperty Master

Michael GaiserVFX Supervisor

Amine HarfoucheVFX Artist

Rich ThorneVisual Effects Producer

Serge HarveyDigital Intermediate

Adrien ArnaudDialogue Editor

Natalia WitmerStunts

Tony ComoCompositors

Grant HarrisAnimation

Youssef MarchoukiStunts

Benoît FabreStunts

Hami BelalStunts

Eric BatesAnimation

Stéphanie GuerinStunts

Joseph BeddelemStunts

Rodrigo ArmendarizCompositors

Kevin R. BrowneVFX Artist

Claire DeberleAnimation

Peter HartwigCompositors

Stefano CorridoriSpecial Effects Supervisor

Abdellah ElbidaniKey Costumer

Jamal QuandilBoom Operator

Larbi LaadimiCostume Assistant

Joe UtichiUnit Publicist

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Reviews

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...

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...

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 build...

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 hope—it 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 frust...