You know it’s a distinctive vision when the movie puts the director’s name in the title, and Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s latest take on “The Mummy” captures the specific spin of Lee Cronin, the emerging horror auteur known for “Evil Dead Rise” and “The Hole in the Ground.”
“Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” just released its first trailer, and it gives a supernatural, demonic twist to a parental nightmare, in which the parents of a girl who disappeared eight years earlier now returns… well, not quite alive, but undead, found in a 3,000 year old Egyptian sarcophagus dressed as a mummy. Seems above board. Could you imagine if she was somewhere unsafe?
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The trailer does have a little bit of that tongue-in-cheek charm that Cronin has aimed to bring to his previous films, with the little girl portraying the mummy saying at one point to her grandmother, “Don’t worry grandma, it’s fun to be dead.”
This is a true horror spin on “The Mummy” rather than a swashbuckling, action-adventure film, and Cronin partnered with the folks at Atomic Monster and Blumhouse to bring it to life.
Cronin, naturally, both wrote and directed “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,” which stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Veronica Falcón. James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville produced the film, and the executive producers are Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Macdara Kelleher, and Lee Cronin.
The film’s below-the-line talent includes director of photography Dave Garbett, production designer Nick Bassett, editor Bryan Shaw, costume designer Joanna Eatwell, music by Stephen McKeon, and casting by Terri Taylor and Sarah Domeier Lindo.
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema are releasing this film in theaters and IMAX on Friday, April 17 in North America and beginning Wednesday, April 15 internationally. Check out the first trailer below.
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