A really disappointing movie for both horror enthusiasts as well as ancient Egypt lovers.
To start with, it's really not scary as a horror movie. With the typical setting of unearthing an ancient special three sided pyramid and exploring it. getting trapped and waking up a monster.Very clichéd as one by one the main characters die either falling prey to booby traps or to the evil monster of the pyramid. Not really scary as everything was predictable and even the Anubis monster was a really good example of poorly made CGI. A very predictable ending where only one person just makes it out only to be dragged in again. Booby traps? Spikes, sand tunnels and collapsing floors.
Secondly, factually inaccurate. Yes, tombs did contains writings from the book of the dead, no, Anubis was not the child of Osiris. He was the son of Set. The hearts of the deceased are weighed against the feather of Truth. and not against the goddess of Maat, Maat was the ancient Egyptian concept of Order, opposite it was Isfet or Chaos. Maat was represented by the Sun God Ra. Oh, and Anubis was not evil, his father Set was. Anubis was the God of Funerals and was most often depicted as leading the souls of the dead to the hall of judgement.
To start with, it's really not scary as a horror movie. With the typical setting of unearthing an ancient special three sided pyramid and exploring it. getting trapped and waking up a monster.Very clichéd as one by one the main characters die either falling prey to booby traps or to the evil monster of the pyramid. Not really scary as everything was predictable and even the Anubis monster was a really good example of poorly made CGI. A very predictable ending where only one person just makes it out only to be dragged in again. Booby traps? Spikes, sand tunnels and collapsing floors.
Secondly, factually inaccurate. Yes, tombs did contains writings from the book of the dead, no, Anubis was not the child of Osiris. He was the son of Set. The hearts of the deceased are weighed against the feather of Truth. and not against the goddess of Maat, Maat was the ancient Egyptian concept of Order, opposite it was Isfet or Chaos. Maat was represented by the Sun God Ra. Oh, and Anubis was not evil, his father Set was. Anubis was the God of Funerals and was most often depicted as leading the souls of the dead to the hall of judgement.