The Pyramid: Grab des Grauens

These types of archaeological excavations unleashing an ancient evil tend to be poor in production and equally so in entertainment value. However, this 2014 movie turned out to be a rather nice surprise.

While the storyline offers nothing new to the genre, then it was still entertaining to sit through this movie. Yes, the story was every bit as predictable as you would imagine. But the sense of claustrophobia and an unseen lurking horror was what saved the movie.

Acting-wise then you know what you will get in "The Pyramid", as this is, and we all know it, not award winning movie material. But still, the cast did good jobs with their roles and characters.

The creatures in the movie were one of the highlights throughout the movie. I especially liked the felines, as they just looked very interesting. As for Anubis himself, well he wasn't too shabby. Just a bit hard to buy into that it took so little to outsmart him. One thing I didn't get was how these being would still be alive and kicking after so many hundred of years. Undead? Immortal? The movie offers no explanation.

I liked the part with the wounds becoming quickly infected and starting to physically show that so rapidly. That was an interesting touch to the movie.

All in all, "The Pyramid" deserves a solid six out of ten stars rating as I was genuinely entertained and surprised at how it actually was a good movie. Just goes to prove that you can't judge a movie by its cover.