Dir: Lee Cronin
Cast: Jack Reynor, May Calamawy, Laia Costa, Billie Roy
The film follows the family of a young girl who disappears without a trace in the desert. Eight years later, she returns – which you’d think might be cause for celebration. Unfortunately for her parents, she may have brought an ancient evil back with her… Throughout the teaser trailer you can catch glimpses of peeling skin, curled fingernails, and jet-black scorpions. Whatever horrors await the girl and her family, we’ll be watching them through our fingers.
This most recent reimaging is shrouded in mystery, but by the looks of things, we’re in for a true nightmare. There are no rip-roaring, Indiana Jones style capers here. Instead, we’re expecting a bold, violent, and rather disturbing take on the story that’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. "This is a very different kind of mummy movie," director Lee Cronin told IGN. "It's not even a reinvention of mummy lore; it's looking into darker places and doing something different with what we think we might already know."
The legacy of The Mummy begins all the way back in 1932 during the golden age of the Universal Monsters era, when legendary horror icon Boris Karloff donned the now infamous bandages in his portrayal of a resurrected ancient-egyption priest. Hot off the heels of his performance as the titular monster in James Whale’s Frankenstein, Karloff brought an incredible gravitas to this tale of an undead mummy awoken from his tomb. Universal developed a whole host of sequels and reimaginings in the decades that followed, including The Mummy’s Hand (1940), The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), and even Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).
As seems rather fitting for a character such as this, The Mummy series wouldn’t stay dead for long. Throughout the late 50s and 60s, Hammer Horror took several swings at the story, with Christopher Lee delivering one of his most memorable performances as the titular monster in the 1959 version of the film. For modern movie fans, however, there can be no more iconic interpretation than the Stephen Sommers films: The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). These action-packed adventure movies had just enough horror sprinkled throughout to keep fans of the classics happy.
Now the ancient sarcophagus is creaking open once again, as Lee Cronin’s The Mummy rises from its tomb!
