The Definitive Guide to Living in the Capital , Cairo , Egypt

Ingenuity and suspense seem to be absent from the latest found-footage horror entry from first-time director – but long-time screenwriter – Gregory Levasseur who unfortunately, is unable to sustain the thrills and offer any new insights in his terribly unexciting and embarrassingly awkward offering in The Pyramid.

Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring turmoil, The Pyramid is set in Cairo – or so they say anyway – and it follows Nora (Hinshaw) and her father (Holden); a pair of devoted archeologist who have come to the country to investigate the most recent discovery of a three-sided Pyramid buried deep under the Egyptian desert.

The discovery – which just so happens to precede the existence of any other historical structure in the area – also attracts the interest of a documentary team, Sunni (Nicola) and her cameraman Fitzie (Buckley) who – whilst avoiding the troubles on the street – are quick to race to the scene to cover the story of this historical finding. 

The two teams soon meet up and everyone is eager to take a peek inside, however, as the disorder in the country reaches its boiling point, the group is ordered to leave the dig site and leave the country. Unable to turn their back on such an amazing discovery, Nora and Holden – with their newly-found friends in toe– soon open up the Pyramid’s apex for one quick look; a decision which, unfortunately, brings a series of unimaginable happenings upon the travelers.

As a horror-flick, The Pyramid is shockingly bland and almost completely scare-free. More distressingly, however, is that Gregory Levasseur – a screenwriter known for his collaboration with Alexandre Aya on horror flicks such as The Hills Have Eyes and High Tension – was unable to offer anything new to this now, already worn-out and dying genre.  Incompetent and lazy, The Pyramid sports all of the usual horror trappings – including a long-list of predictable and cheap jump scares – and the found-footage concept, which is supposed to add a sense of ‘realism’ to the picture, is often forgotten about and sometimes even completely abandoned from the picture, making The Pyramid a little messy and undecided on the path it wants to take. 

With a series of unexplained plot points, there is nothing in The Pyramid that warrants a must-see viewing. It’s the embodiment of lazy but, if dark tunnels, weird-looking skin boils and zombie-looking cats are your thing, by all means, go for it. But, you have been warned.