When you concentrate on it, the Mummy is a bizarre horror film monster. Dracula? Wolf Man? The Creature from the Black Lagoon? All these make sense, with their enamel and their claws. However the mummy is a useless man in bandages, who chases you actually, actually slowly should you dig him up. How dangerous is that? Essentially the most well-known Mummy films deal with that drawback by making horror secondary to different genres, a gothic romance in 1932 and Indiana Jones type journey in 1999.
But when the primary trailer for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is any indication, the Irish director of Evil Lifeless Rise isn’t having any of that. The 65-second lengthy teaser for the brand new Blumhouse flick is all Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath-style flash bulks and sharp noises, set to the sound of somebody chanting in a international language that will not be “Klaatu barada nikto” however it positive is shut. There’s even a child smashing in his face with an depth that might make the Philippou brothers jealous. The teaser ends with the query “What occurred to Katie?” indicating that Cronin’s take will probably be neither romance nor journey, however pure terror.
Whereas the director has his title within the title most likely to tell apart this image from the fourth entry within the Brendan Fraser Mummy sequence, which is at the moment in pre-production, it additionally serves to underscore how totally different Cronin’s take appears to be. The director established himself as an skilled in creeping family-based horror together with his 2019 debut The Gap within the Floor, after which supercharged in 2023 with Evil Lifeless Rise.
With The Mummy, Cronin plans so as to add some new instruments to his horror package. “The film itself actually is a thriller and it’s a puzzle field, which was a part of my draw in direction of it,” he informed IGN. “I feel for me what’s actually attention-grabbing and thrilling, definitely even from childhood and being drawn in direction of Egyptian lore and that whole world, is the secrets and techniques that exist and the hidden issues. So the film that I wished to make was reflective of that concept of deep, buried secrets and techniques and issues we might not find out about. This film is coming from a really totally different place, and it’s not even a reinvention of mummy lore; it’s trying into darker locations and doing one thing totally different with what we predict we would already know.”
