‘The Mummy’ Review: Gross Horror Flick Is Just ‘The Exorcist’ with Gauze

‘The Mummy’ review: Gross horror flick is just ‘The Exorcist’ with gauze

I know what you’re thinking: Who the hell is Lee Cronin? He’s the director of “Evil Dead Rise,” and purportedly his name has been tacked onto the title of his diabolically long and determinedly uninteresting new film, Wes Craven style, to separate his Egyptian monster from that of the surprisingly enduring Brendan Fraser series.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Doesnt Meet Expectations

When I mention that I went to see Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, what comes to mind initially?  Maybe you think old school with Boris Karloff in black and white.  Maybe Brenden Frasier comes to mind, a swash-buckling adventure in the desert where an undead monster wrapped in cloth trudges its way through the desert.  Maybe you even think of Tom Cruise, in an action-packed re-imagining of the classic tale.  That was my thought when I went to see Lee Cron

Lee Cronin's The Mummy Review

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy makes no attempt to build on what came before. The film cuts ties entirely with both the 1999 adventure series and the 2017 reboot—the film that effectively ended Universal’s Dark Universe experiment before it could take shape. Rather than continuing in either direction, Cronin steers the material toward supernatural horror, backed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, and Atomic Monster. The story centres on Ch…

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Review – A Classic Monster Gets Lost in Demonic Possession Horror Story

Of all the classic monsters, mummies tend to be the more overlooked and underexplored, making the cinematic creature ripe for reinvention. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy eschews the traditional ancient Egypt mythology and the slow, lumbering undead wrapped in papyrus for a faster, gorier, and modern interpretation. It’s so far removed from convention, though, that this Mummy movie winds up unwrapping a standard possession story with a nihilistic streak.…

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ movie review: Not enough Mummy, too much Exorcist in overlong horror film

A kidnapped daughter is returned after eight years, but in a state of demonic possession, in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, which opens in Prague and cinemas worldwide this weekend. There’s a neat mummy monster briefly glimpsed in the first five minutes of this movie, but the writer-director largely abandons this initial promise for some far more generic possession movie tropes in this overbearing 133-minute feature that includes about 15 seconds of on…