‘Horror is a great way to express your own fears’: Lee Cronin on reimagining The Mummy

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Buried secrets and ancient rituals provide fertile ground for horror, something that The Mummy franchise has long demonstrated.The original series, including the 1932 film starring horror icon Boris Karloff, follows a group of archaeologists who discover a mummified priest and inadvertently bring him back to life.Numerous adaptations followed, including films from Hammer Film Productions starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and the later cycle directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, along with spin-offs such as The Scorpion King.Now, Irish writer-director Lee Cronin reimagines the concept, asking what would happen if a family member became mummified.

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00:00It's very important you fully prepare yourself for what you're about to see.

00:07No sudden moves.

00:10No loud noises.

00:12I tell stories about the threat towards family.

00:15Family is very important to me.

00:18And probably the thing I'd be most scared of is always is losing a family member or facing grief or

00:23being without somebody.

00:24So it's a way of me exploring those fears.

00:30Hey, Motherfly, it's Mom and Dad.

00:35Like, people were buried not expecting to be woken up, or not woken up but taken from their graves, right?

00:41And that's really interesting.

00:42If you go digging around with the dead, what might you find?

00:47She's been missing for eight years.

00:51What was our daughter doing in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus?

00:56This movie is about mummification for a different purpose.

01:01Insofar as we usually think of, say, mummy movies, and it's about, you know, a king, a queen, a pharaoh.

01:07But in this, it's like, well, what happens if someone very close to you is mummified, and why?

01:11Bye-bye.

01:12Bye-bye.

01:13Bye-bye.

01:14Bye-bye.

01:15Bye-bye.

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