Director Lee Cronin Takes Us Through the Goriest Scenes in His Mummy Movie

Major spoilers follow for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. A familiar title gets a distinct new interpretation in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. The writer-director behind Evil Dead Rise tells a modern-day tale about an American family temporarily living in Egypt when their young daughter vanishes, only for her to return eight years later and encased in a sarcophagus. She’s alive, but also quite different and more unsettling than they remember… Speaking to IGN about the film, Cronin said that after revisiting the original 1932 version of The Mummy starring Boris Karloff, the starting point for his version was asking: “What about mummification for a different purpose? If you ask somebody, ‘What do you think of when you think of a mummy?’ I think most people will think of a Pharaoh, or iconic images we all know of lost kings that were found again and golden coffins and all of these things. And I thought, ‘What if a loved one was to be mummified in the context of a horror movie in the now? Why would that be?’ And then the why kind of kicked off this concept in terms of mummification for a different purpose, and why she was kidnapped, and where she fits into this longer prehistory.” Lee Cronin’s The M