With Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin brought an already gnarly horror franchise back to life in the most gruesome of ways. For the record, that’s high praise: it’s not easy bringing something new to the possession movie, as so many horror films have made their own meals out of that basic narrative. Cronin established himself as a director to watch with the 2023 film, but with his new take on The Mummy, he’s striving to prove that he can reimagine that same story once again.
Fans of Universal’s original Mummy franchise — the one starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz — have to wait a few years until The Mummy 4, but Lee Cronin’s The Mummy might just tide some over until then. Granted, the latter is shaping up to be a far cry from sword-and-sandals tomb raiding, taking recognizable iconography and twisting it into something much more sinister.
