"With Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin brought an already gnarly horror franchise back to life in the most gruesome of ways. For the record, that's high praise: it's not easy bringing something new to the possession movie, as so many horror films have made their own meals out of that basic narrative. Cronin established himself as a director to watch with the 2023 film, but with his new take on , he's striving to prove that he can reimagine that same story once again."
"Cronin's Mummy follows a classic formula: "What if your loved one came back, but was fundamentally changed?" It's this question that a journalist (Jack Reynor) and his wife (Laia Costa) have to reckon with when their oldest daughter, Katie (Natalie Grace), returns after being declared missing for eight years. Authorities assumed she'd been abducted in the desert, but the flashes of her disappearance we see in the latest trailer point to a supernatural hijacking."
Lee Cronin follows his Evil Dead Rise momentum by reimagining the Mummy myth through possession-horror and family drama. A journalist and his wife confront their oldest daughter Katie after she returns missing for eight years, one of 57 mummified persons and the sole survivor of a grisly ritual. Katie's grey, peeling skin, curling nails, and ghoulish disposition undermine claims that she is truly alive. The family attempts rehabilitation while supernatural elements suggest a hijacking rather than a simple rescue. Cronin's film diverges from classic tomb-raiding Mummy stories and is not connected to Universal's Brendan Fraser continuity.
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