Irish director Lee Cronin showed a lip-smacking eagerness to exploit parental fears in The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise. He doubles down on that thematic horror staple in his vigorous reimagining of The Mummy, a bonkers freakout about a family naively convinced that the reassuring comforts of home can fix the violently catatonic daughter lost to them for eight years. At least until all hell breaks loose in a kinetic movie that revels in its unrelenting nastiness. Think The Exorcist meets Hereditary and you’re on the right track.
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Does Cronin’s film have the sharp narrative lines or control of those predecessors? Not even close, but it has enough style and scares, breathless energy and even fiendish humor almost to justify the grandiose inclusion of the director’s name in the title. In truth that was a marketing
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