Lee Cronin’s The Mummy steers away from the last couple of takes on the monster, instead promising real terror.
I like the Brendan Fraser – Rachel Weisz Mummy flicks well enough, and I can even get a little joy out of the ill-conceived more recent version with Tom Cruise – you know, the one that birthed and killed the whole Dark Universe franchise on one go. But I wouldn’t call them horror movies – they’re action movies with a light dusting of horror iconography.
But it looks like Lee Cronin, who gave us Hole In The Ground and Evil Dead Rise, has taken it upon himself to go back to The Mummy‘s horror roots. He’s also decided that, like John Carpenter and Clive Barker before him, his name should go before the title. Which strikes me as a hell of a flex for a man three features into his career, but go off, king.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Trailer
What’s the plot?
As the official synopsis tells us:
The young daughter of a journalist disappears without a trace in the desert. The shattered family is stunned when the girl suddenly reappears eight years later. But what should have been a joyful family reunion quickly turns into a true and horrifying nightmare.
Which is a little bit Pet Sematary, don’t you think?
Who’s in it?
No word as to who they’re playing as yet, but expect to see:
- Jack Reynor.
- Laia Costa.
- May Calamawy.
- Natalie Grace.
- Verónica Falcón.
- May Elghety.
- Shylo Molina.
- Billie Roy.
- Hayat Kamille.
When’s it out?
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy hits Australian cinemas on April 16.
What’s the vibe?
Blumhouse’s low budget, high concept approach to the old Universal Monsters is working for me – I dug the hell out of The Invisible Man and I seem to have liked Wolf Man more than most people did. The big question is whether you can actually make a mummy scary these days – of all the Monsters, it’s the most comedic, so how you can spin the material to put the chills to a modern audience is an interesting problem. Let’s hope they’ve solved it.
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