The Pyramid Is a New Mummy Horror Flick That I Really Hope Isn’t “Found-Footage”
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I don’t have a specific aversion to found-footage – it’s a form like any other, and depends on the story you tell. But following the fake CG historical part of this trailer, the first look at our main characters appears to be classic “Hey, let’s make a documentary about something unexplained, because that never goes wrong” POV shooting, while the last third has everyone running, shooting and falling in ways that couldn’t feasibly be accomodating any kind of complex camera work.
I’m all for mummies being scarier that Arnold Vosloo with CGI acne, but if you’re going for something more “realistic” here, Fox, I’m waiting for another trailer to convince me.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist