The Pyramid (2014)

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

Director:

Grégory Levasseur

Writers:

Daniel Meersand, Nick Simon

Stars:

Ashley Hinshaw, James Buckley, Denis O'Hare

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Ashley Hinshaw	...	Nora
Denis O'Hare	...	Holden
James Buckley	...	Fitzie
Christa Nicola	...	Sunni (as Christa-Marie Nicola)
Amir K	...	Zahir
Faycal Attougui	...	Corporal Shadid
Philip Shelley	...	Provost
Ait Hamou Amine	...	8 Year Old Boy
Omar Benbrahim	...	Egyptian Intern
Joseph Beddelem	...	Taxi Driver
Chakir El Faaiz	...	Skinny Digger

Storyline

A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become desperate to seek daylight again. They come to realize they aren't just trapped, they are being hunted.

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Plot Keywords:

pyramid | egyptian | supernatural | egyptian tomb | cat | 

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Taglines:

The curse is real

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some horror violence and bloody images

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 December 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Site 146

Filming Locations:

Morocco

Box Office

Budget:

$6,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,369,935, 5 December 2014, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$2,756,333, 4 March 2015

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$16,861,137, 28 November 2015

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Fox International Productions (FIP), Silvatar Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film uses both a first person (for the found footage shots) and a third person perspective.

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Goofs

Whilst the God Anubis attended the Weighing Of The Heart during Judgement, Anubis never ate the hearts/souls of the damned, the hearts of the damned were devoured by Egyptian demon Amiit "The Devourer Of Hearts".

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Quotes

Holden: [on a video recording] This pyramid, unlike any structure other I've ever encountered, seems to have been built with the express purpose of keeping whatever is inside from escaping. If you come down here... bring guns.

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Connections

References Days of Our Lives (1965)

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Soundtracks

5173
By Nima Fakhrara, Blake Straus, Samuel Murphy and Kevin Hastings
Performed by Kevin Hastings
Produced by Nima Fakhrara

User Reviews

Overall descent, I'll give it that.

A semi found footage film that reminds me of a film that came out earlier this year, As above so below, but is nowhere near as spectacular as that movie.

Like the Jake Gyllenhaal film End of Watch the film tends to break the rules of the found footage genre by creating a story about a Daddy Daughter architect team being filmed going down in an accent pyramid, then breaking them by putting an unmanned camera were none should exist,

But I must admit I really did like the monster they created for this film. Can't say I've ever seen anything like it in the film, or at least done in this matter.

And I did enjoy some of the horror clichés that the film walks into. Maybe I would have liked it more if I haven't see As above So Below which had the same kind of closed space environment, but was done far better.

Still, the movie had a lot of genuine scared worth paying a ticket for.