{"id":365999,"date":"2026-03-26T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365999\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:12:10","slug":"dublin-writer-and-director-lee-cronin-on-lee-cronins-the-mummy-and-the-horror-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365999\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin writer and director Lee Cronin on Lee Cronin&#8217;s The Mummy and the horror genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nDublin born writer and director turned Hollywood power player Lee Cronin likes his movies to \u2018bring the horror home\u2019. And that\u2019s especially the case for his new take on \u2018The Mummy\u2019 which was filmed in Co Wicklow and informed by a personal loss\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Writer and director Lee Cronin whose upcoming film The Mummy is in cinemas on April 17. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in Film Director 10.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Writer and director Lee Cronin whose upcoming film The Mummy is in cinemas on April 17. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I am standing in a house in the middle of nowhere in Texas. Through the windows, you can see the large expanse of desert and mountains stretching off in all directions. Inside, everything seems as it should\u2026 until you look a little closer. In the kitchen, all of the food has begun to rot. The flowers are dying. There is a hole in the ceiling, dripping a mysterious black ooze. Oh, and there is an empty casket in the living room; whoever was inside seems to have crawled out\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stepping outside the house, I can see I\u2019m actually not in Texas at all, but in a desolate part of Spain. Running 360 degrees around the house, the haunting, empty landscape around us will double as the surroundings of the Texan-based abode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin born writer and director turned Hollywood power player Lee Cronin likes his movies to \u2018bring the horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,270],"class_list":["post-365999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}