Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz may be getting ready to swash some buckles in Radio Silence’s The Mummy 4 real soon, but before we get all gooey-eyed over the returns of Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is gearing up for his own, altogether less family-friendly looking take on the undead horror icon. And, if the newly released first teaser trailer for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is anything to go by, then prepare for something truly wicked this way coming. Check it out below;
Okay, okay, okay. We’re sorry, The Mummy can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because it’s dead (again.) Sure, this first look at Lee Cronin’s Mummy movie may be barely a minute long, but boy does it set a decidedly eerie and ominous tone as we see some intense close-ups on a mummified child, bugs coming from her mouth, eyes bulging and bandages fraying, interspersed with violent shots of bloodshed, defenestration, and a chilling question: ‘What happened to Katie?’
Well, the teaser itself may not tell us much about that, but the synopsis for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy — which stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Veronica Falcón — gives a pretty good steer. It reads: “The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace —eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.”
Beyond that disquieting synopsis and the decidedly Bring Her Back/Lake Mungo vibes of Cronin’s missing child orientated take on The Mummy, precious little else is known about The Hole In The Ground filmmaker’s latest. We look forward to/are terrified about unwrapping more when Lee Cronin’s The Mummy hits cinemas on 17 April. Any bets on a Jonathan cameo, anyone? Yeah, probs not…
