Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin has now revitalized two horror franchises that both deal with the villainous undead. In both Evil Dead Rise and The Mummy, Cronin displays a curiosity for using these tropes to display the rot at the heart of the nuclear family unit. In the former, it was clear that Cronin has taken up a mantle from that franchise’s creator, Sam Raimi, that went beyond simple narrative; with flesh being torn apart in increasingly humorous ways, the film laid bare a director whose influences sit squarely on his sleeve.
The Mummy is Cronin’s third feature, a noxious and gnarly enough reimagining of Universal’s franchise of the same name that began in 1932. But there isn’t much evidence of that connection. Instead there is much more Raimi-esque bleak humor, defenestration, a ton of bugs, and a frustrating plethora of clichés. An amusing film if not altogether convincing, Lee Cronin’s
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