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

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy: A hollow take on Egyptian horror tropes

Not to be confused with Universal's The Mummy franchise, Lee Cronin's The Mummy comes from Warner Bros, the studio that established The Conjuring universe, and it certainly has more in common with those supernatural horror films than anything else. However, given the Orientalist and anti-Arab sentiment enmeshed in those Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz-led movies, it's hard not to be sceptical about any Hollywood film grappling with Egyptian hist…

‘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.

Review: LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY is a Better Evil Dead Movie Than Mummy Movie

If you ordered a bone-in ribeye and were served orange chicken, how would you react? That's Lee Cronin's The Mummy (henceforth The Mummy). It’s not so much a mummy movie as it is an Evil Dead movie. Shades of The Exorcist, as well? There's nothing reminiscent of popular mummified cinema or established monster lore. Cronin gets nasty with peeling flesh and vomitron effects, but overall, the filmmaker's desire to avoid classic familiarity feels li…

Walk Like an Egyptian

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy by Hope Madden So, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. You may be wondering, who is Lee Cronin? Do I even know that guy? You probably do, if you saw 2023’sEvil Dead Rise, the story of a family trapped in their apartment as their mother turns Deadite and tries to murder them all. You may have missed his 2019 Irish horror, The Hole in the Ground, where a changeling takes the shape of a woman’s young son, traps her in a house and tries t…