With ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’, the director behind *Evil Dead Rise* is attempting to reinvent one of horror cinema’s most iconic monsters. Cronin’s new film reimagines the classic story with a darker angle centred on a family whose daughter mysteriously reappears years after vanishing in Egypt.
We spoke with Cronin about bringing the legendary creature back to life, pushing the film toward body horror, and how his version differs from the action-adventure tone of earlier *Mummy* movies.
I saw this last night and walked out of it 2/3rds of the way through. It’s your basic low-effort jump scare/gross visual loop.
Rick-burp-Sanchez on
They should’ve used the marketing budget for this thing to make it scary.
CineChamber on
I’m really excited to see this when I go next week.
mintmilanomadness on
I really enjoyed it
Cheesebergur on
Here’s an idea for a thread; movies with the directors name in the title that are good
Daovin on
Have they made this movie yet?
Loud_Hair_9596 on
This movie wasn’t terrifying at all. Save your money and wait for streaming.
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From what I’ve heard (having not seen the movie), it’s a two hour and fifteen minute movie where the first hour is a trope slog, then the last hour and 15 minutes are a really mean horror movie that reminds you that this was, essentially, going to be an Evil Dead Rises sequel .
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Dude didn’t want to make a mummy movie. He just wanted to make another evil dead movie. The mummy stuff is so loose that if it wasn’t for an actual pyramid youd never know you were dealing with anything other than a possessed body.
And worse, this is a movie where everyone has to be the dumbest people alive for the plot to make sense.
Scenes happen and just end without any explanation. There’s a b plot about the father trying to figure out what happened using a professor that’s just dropped so that the b plot in Egypt can play out.
And for all the gross out effects the movie is remarkably tame. The body count is very low with only two deaths happening on screen and only one of those is at all decent.
The movie takes itself SO serious. Imagine it Drag Me To Hell played it straight without any of the uncomfortable humor that keeps that movie going.
I was so disappointed in this. And the runtime is unforgivable. Over two hours just for a bog standard possession story.
Absolute dog shit movie.
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Oh man! I cant wait till he makes it!
sheetofice on
Why would he need someone to inspire him? Shouldn’t that just have been his objective going in from the very beginning? What was his original objective? Let’s make the most bland movie ever made.
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*From Far Out Magazine’s Scott Campbell:*
With ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’, the director behind *Evil Dead Rise* is attempting to reinvent one of horror cinema’s most iconic monsters. Cronin’s new film reimagines the classic story with a darker angle centred on a family whose daughter mysteriously reappears years after vanishing in Egypt.
We spoke with Cronin about bringing the legendary creature back to life, pushing the film toward body horror, and how his version differs from the action-adventure tone of earlier *Mummy* movies.
Full interview: [https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lee-cronin-the-mummy-interview/](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lee-cronin-the-mummy-interview/)
I saw this last night and walked out of it 2/3rds of the way through. It’s your basic low-effort jump scare/gross visual loop.
They should’ve used the marketing budget for this thing to make it scary.
I’m really excited to see this when I go next week.
I really enjoyed it
Here’s an idea for a thread; movies with the directors name in the title that are good
Have they made this movie yet?
This movie wasn’t terrifying at all. Save your money and wait for streaming.
From what I’ve heard (having not seen the movie), it’s a two hour and fifteen minute movie where the first hour is a trope slog, then the last hour and 15 minutes are a really mean horror movie that reminds you that this was, essentially, going to be an Evil Dead Rises sequel .
Dude didn’t want to make a mummy movie. He just wanted to make another evil dead movie. The mummy stuff is so loose that if it wasn’t for an actual pyramid youd never know you were dealing with anything other than a possessed body.
And worse, this is a movie where everyone has to be the dumbest people alive for the plot to make sense.
Scenes happen and just end without any explanation. There’s a b plot about the father trying to figure out what happened using a professor that’s just dropped so that the b plot in Egypt can play out.
And for all the gross out effects the movie is remarkably tame. The body count is very low with only two deaths happening on screen and only one of those is at all decent.
The movie takes itself SO serious. Imagine it Drag Me To Hell played it straight without any of the uncomfortable humor that keeps that movie going.
I was so disappointed in this. And the runtime is unforgivable. Over two hours just for a bog standard possession story.
Absolute dog shit movie.
Oh man! I cant wait till he makes it!
Why would he need someone to inspire him? Shouldn’t that just have been his objective going in from the very beginning? What was his original objective? Let’s make the most bland movie ever made.