Although the tweet-spree may have seemed like an over-reaction to the online confusion surrounding Cronin’s Mummy, the filmmaker’s reimagining of the title tilts far more toward a gleefully sadistic body-horror flick than it does family-friendly cult classic—given that, it was probably a point that was necessary to hammer home. Cronin’s Mummy, which arrives on the heels of his success writing and directing 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, the highest-grossing Evil Dead entry to date, takes the Universal franchise in a completely different direction than its predecessors. In Cronin’s update, the Mummy story has nothing to do with cursed Ancient Egyptian high priest Imhotep rising from the dead to wreak eternal terror. Instead, it deals in the far crueler and more sordid realm of child abduction, torture, and possession.
