Director: Lee Cronin

Cast: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy

Synopsis:

Hot off the record-setting resurrection of EVIL DEAD RISE, writer/director Lee Cronin turns to one of the most iconic horror stories of all time with an audacious and twisted retelling: LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY. The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare. The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, with Veronica Falcón. The film is written and directed by Cronin, and produced by James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville.

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We have, in recent years, got used to Irish film professionals racking up significant honours, but it is still something to see Lee Cronin, the talented Dubliner behind horrors such as The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise, receiving the rarely granted “possessive credit”. Even Alfred Hitchcock doesn’t get his name in the title on the Internet Movie Database.

Aside from anything else, this does help distinguish the current release from an imminent (ahem) disinterment of the more jocular Mummy franchise featuring Brendan Fraser. Following Leigh Whannell’s excellent The Invisible Man and his somewhat underappreciated Wolf Man, Cronin takes over Blumhouse Productions’ admirable mission to recontextualise classic movie monsters for a new generation. He does so with a relish for the apocalyptically disgusting that is, as that credit confirms, all his own.

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