Lee Cronin’s The Mummy offers unsettling kid-on-kid violence in a disturbingly playful new trailer.
You can really feel the spirit of Sam Raimi in the latest trailer for Lee Cronin’s mummy movie. It makes sense; Cronin’s breakthrough film was 2023’s excellent Evil Dead Rise, and you’d expect that to share some DNA with the series creator. But what we’d seen so far of The Mummy looked very dark and serious; this new trailer has a more playful edge. It’s still creepy as hell, though; never doubt that.
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.
And there’s clearly going to be some unsettling kid-on-kid violence, too.
Who’s in it?
No word as to who they’re playing as yet, but expect to see:
- Jack Reynor as Charlie Cannon, our beleaguered dad.
- Laia Costa as Mrs. Cannon.
- May Calamawy.
- Natalie Grace as Katie, the mummy of the title, somehow denied top billing.
- 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?
Looks good to me, man. The big question with the mummy is always “What the hell do you do with the mummy?” and Cronin seems to have found an answer. That answer is “make it a creepy kid”, which is generally a pretty smart choice. If you like you can view it as the response to Blumhouse’s last Universal Monsters redux, Wolf Man, which was a creepy dad film, more or less. It’s certainly a fresh take on the material, though; gotta give points for that.
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