Lee Cronin's THE MUMMY happening at Blumhouse

Watched Lee Cronin’s The Mummy last night. Going into it, I mentally tried to push aside the online comments comparing this film to Evil Dead Rise, believing that it would be unfair to compare this film to that one. Well... that didn’t last very long, because about half way into this movie I realized that this really is just a repaint of Evil Dead Rise. It is straight up the same movie almost beat for beat with all Evil Dead elements removed.

This may be the first movie (at least in awhile) where I've cheered for the monster to kill everyone, because the normal people in this are seriously some of the dumbest "protagonists" I've seen. Not dumb in an Ash Williams type way, I mean it takes some SERIOUS suspension of disbelief to think that any sane person (traumatized or not) would ignore the stuff that is going on the moment Katie the living corpse comes back into their lives. The entire family watches as Katie does contortionist act while damn near flying above the bed THE MOMENT SHE GETS HOME and the dad treats it with the same level of severity as someone leaving the cookie jar open.

The dad... oh my god the dad... I really wish the last scene wasn't in the movie, because he absolutely deserved what happened to him just prior to that. You know what? I'm almost wondering if the very last scene was added on after a test screening, because...
The twist of this American family becoming the new "caretakers" of the demon, starting the cycle of looking for a new host for it all over again, is great.
The dad has the same expression... even when he's trying to be emotional (angry, sad, confused), he looks the same. I wanted to slap him.

Mom got off easy, despite being the most willfully ignorant of the family. She needed some sort of physical punishment inflicted upon her by the demon by the end of this, and she gets off scot-free. "I can fix her" is an actual line she says between witnessing some of the grossest/strongest wince-inducing things I have ever seen on film.

The only somewhat competent character is Egyptian Lady Cop, but even then there is a major flaw with something she does in the third act.
What would have happened if she flew all the way to the US and the family didn’t have a functioning VHS player? She didn't tell them that she was coming over (maybe she did, I don't remember), so what the hell would happen if they were like "It's 2026, who has a VHS player hooked up and ready to go right now?"

Speaking of VHS tapes... if Katie was taken in the mid-2010s, why didn’t Magician Egyptian Mom film her very important instructional video with a digital camera? The message is for someone 60 to 70 years in the future… did she think that a VHS would last buried in the sand for all those years? Why not shoot it on digital and put the file on a USB stick? There’s a much higher chance of someone having the ability to play a flash drive in the far future than they would a VHS tape!

Going back to Evil Dead Rise, it's worth nothing that actor Mark Mitchinson plays the exposition guy in both Rise and this film (besides playing Mr. Fonda, he was also the voice of Father Littleton on the records). His character is named Professor Bixler, which is what Lee says is the major connection point between Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Evil Dead Rise, making him a distant relative of Beth and Ellie. Speaking of Beth, Lily Sullivan has a blink and you'll miss it cameo, which was easily a highlight. Now that I'm thinking about it, Lily
gets called a "C-word that rhymes with punt" in Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Evil Dead Rise. Is that going to be a thing in all her Lee Cronin-directed appearances?

I don't know what else to say about this movie besides if you've seen Evil Dead Rise, you've seen Lee Cronin's The Mummy. I guess if you REALLY liked Rise but felt it could have used an Egyptian/Tex-Mex aesthetic, then this is the perfect movie for you.
 
MCT28 said:
Watched Lee Cronin’s The Mummy last night. Going into it, I mentally tried to push aside the online comments comparing this film to Evil Dead Rise, believing that it would be unfair to compare this film to that one. Well... that didn’t last very long, because about half way into this movie I realized that this really is just a repaint of Evil Dead Rise. It is straight up the same movie almost beat for beat with all Evil Dead elements removed.

This may be the first movie (at least in awhile) where I've cheered for the monster to kill everyone, because the normal people in this are seriously some of the dumbest "protagonists" I've seen. Not dumb in an Ash Williams type way, I mean it takes some SERIOUS suspension of disbelief to think that any sane person (traumatized or not) would ignore the stuff that is going on the moment Katie the living corpse comes back into their lives. The entire family watches as Katie does contortionist act while damn near flying above the bed THE MOMENT SHE GETS HOME and the dad treats it with the same level of severity as someone leaving the cookie jar open.

The dad... oh my god the dad... I really wish the last scene wasn't in the movie, because he absolutely deserved what happened to him just prior to that. You know what? I'm almost wondering if the very last scene was added on after a test screening, because...
The twist of this American family becoming the new "caretakers" of the demon, starting the cycle of looking for a new host for it all over again, is great.
The dad has the same expression... even when he's trying to be emotional (angry, sad, confused), he looks the same. I wanted to slap him.

Mom got off easy, despite being the most willfully ignorant of the family. She needed some sort of physical punishment inflicted upon her by the demon by the end of this, and she gets off scot-free. "I can fix her" is an actual line she says between witnessing some of the grossest/strongest wince-inducing things I have ever seen on film.

The only somewhat competent character is Egyptian Lady Cop, but even then there is a major flaw with something she does in the third act.
What would have happened if she flew all the way to the US and the family didn’t have a functioning VHS player? She didn't tell them that she was coming over (maybe she did, I don't remember), so what the hell would happen if they were like "It's 2026, who has a VHS player hooked up and ready to go right now?"

Speaking of VHS tapes... if Katie was taken in the mid-2010s, why didn’t Magician Egyptian Mom film her very important instructional video with a digital camera? The message is for someone 60 to 70 years in the future… did she think that a VHS would last buried in the sand for all those years? Why not shoot it on digital and put the file on a USB stick? There’s a much higher chance of someone having the ability to play a flash drive in the far future than they would a VHS tape!

Going back to Evil Dead Rise, it's worth nothing that actor Mark Mitchinson plays the exposition guy in both Rise and this film (besides playing Mr. Fonda, he was also the voice of Father Littleton on the records). His character is named Professor Bixler, which is what Lee says is the major connection point between Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Evil Dead Rise, making him a distant relative of Beth and Ellie. Speaking of Beth, Lily Sullivan has a blink and you'll miss it cameo, which was easily a highlight. Now that I'm thinking about it, Lily
gets called a "C-word that rhymes with punt" in Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Evil Dead Rise. Is that going to be a thing in all her Lee Cronin-directed appearances?

I don't know what else to say about this movie besides if you've seen Evil Dead Rise, you've seen Lee Cronin's The Mummy. I guess if you REALLY liked Rise but felt it could have used an Egyptian/Tex-Mex aesthetic, then this is the perfect movie for you.
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Had no idea Ellie's and Beth's surname in Rise is supposed to be Bixler. Is that itself a reference to Denise Bixler, who played Linda in ED II?
 
Hurley said:
Had no idea Ellie's and Beth's surname in Rise is supposed to be Bixler. Is that itself a reference to Denise Bixler, who played Linda in ED II?
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Yes. All the characters in Rise (except the ones on the record) have names that are references to the cast from previous Evil Dead movies.
 
Yep, I think they did say that's why Beth is Beth.

Whelp! I saw it and business is already falling off for this puppy in week two and even as a Lee Cronin defender I could not get behind this one:

I know every director has their obsessions but Lee's parental anxiety well is starting to run dry. It's absolutely an Evil Dead movie reskinned as a mummy film, to the point where it would've been wiser just for him to do a sequel to Rise. In fact, it's worse than Rise because every character in Mummy is incredibly stupid.

The Bixler thing was extremely dumb pandering and I think Universal thought Lee was a bigger deal to the average horror fan. I'd even argue Fede is a bigger deal and all he has under his belt for name clout at this point is Don't Breathe, the remake, and his Alien film. "Lee Cronin's The Mummy" understandably drew 'who's' and I'm a fan of the guy!
 
Looks like the movie is coming out on digital on May 19th. It must not have really bombed in theaters.
 
It's one of those situations where they definitely made the budget back so you can't call it a bomb but it wasn't a blockbuster and won't leave much of an impact behind.
 
Uhh, almost forgot: I started watching Lee Cronin's The Mummy a week ago but then completely forgot about it and I don't think I'll be able to even finish it. It's just every horror movie cliché under the sun done in the most boring way possible. It's actually kinda shocking how dull this movie is. I think I'm at like the halfway point and I really don't want to get back to it.
 
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is still stirring up headlines months after it has left theaters: The Mummy film ad banned from London Underground
Posters for the new The Mummy film have been banned from the London Underground and other billboards after regulators said they included realistic depictions of a dead child.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 30 complaints regarding the promotional campaign for the Lee Cronin film and said the posters must not be displayed in areas where children could see them.

Many complainants argued the imagery was distressing for both children and adults.

Warner Bros defended the campaign, stating it had been prepared with "due responsibility to consumers and society" and was not designed to create fear or offence.

The poster shows a close-up image of a female figure with a mummified appearance, sunken features and one eye swollen shut, alongside the tagline: "Some things are meant to stay buried."

The distributor explained that the character depicted was a "living mummy" who was returned to her parents as a young adult, many years after having been kidnapped as a child.

It argued that the poster used a neutral facial expression while avoiding elements of violence or intimidation to reduce any risk of distress.

Warner Bros added that the design had been cleared by Transport for London's advertising partner, Global, for display across the London Underground network.

However, the ASA upheld the complaints regarding the outdoor and Underground posters.

The watchdog noted that the figure's grey, ashen skin, cracked lips and fixed, vacant expression combined to give a "realistic impression of a dead child".

The ASA stated: "Because the figure had recognizable human features, we considered that viewers were likely to understand it as a realistic depiction of a dead child."

It added that although Warner Bros confirmed adverts were not placed within 100 metres (328ft) of any school, one billboard was directly visible from a children's nursery.

The regulator concluded: "We considered the image was likely to distress young children and that it was unsuitable for display where it was likely to be seen by them.

"We therefore concluded that the ads were unsuitable for outdoor display and therefore breached the code."
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First off: the girl isn't dead, she's possessed by a demon that makes her look dead.
Second: Don't people have anything better to do than complain about and investigate/ban a poster for a movie that has not only left theaters ages ago, but is already on home media and streaming?
 
MCT28 said:
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is still stirring up headlines months after it has left theaters: The Mummy film ad banned from London Underground

First off: the girl isn't dead, she's possessed by a demon that makes her look dead.
Second: Don't people have anything better to do than complain about and investigate/ban a poster for a movie that has not only left theaters ages ago, but is already on home media and streaming?
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Outrage culture has been ruining everything lately.
 
Kain said:
Outrage culture has been ruining everything lately.
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I still remember the cultural outrage about the casting of Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and Jill Marie Jones back when AvED started. I'm actually surprised people aren't saying that EVIL DEAD'S GONE WOKE since all the protagonists in the last three movies were women. But what do I know, maybe some people are saying that. Hell, we had a very sensitive fellow who didn't like some of the messaging in Rise on this very forum recently.
 
Hurley said:
I still remember the cultural outrage about the casting of Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and Jill Marie Jones back when AvED started. I'm actually surprised people aren't saying that EVIL DEAD'S GONE WOKE since all the protagonists in the last three movies were women. But what do I know, maybe some people are saying that. Hell, we had a very sensitive fellow who didn't like some of the messaging in Rise on this very forum recently.
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Yeah, I got downvoted to oblivion on Reddit for wanting to see more diverse casts in future Evil Dead movies. :rollseyes:
 
Kain said:
Outrage culture has been ruining everything lately.
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Hurley said:
I still remember the cultural outrage about the casting of Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and Jill Marie Jones back when AvED started. I'm actually surprised people aren't saying that EVIL DEAD'S GONE WOKE since all the protagonists in the last three movies were women. But what do I know, maybe some people are saying that. Hell, we had a very sensitive fellow who didn't like some of the messaging in Rise on this very forum recently.
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Kain said:
Yeah, I got downvoted to oblivion on Reddit for wanting to see more diverse casts in future Evil Dead movies. :rollseyes:
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Rage is all the rage even if faked to get attention and clicks. I should clarify that earlier I wanted to quote the entire conversation, but I have been watching the rapid downfall of YouTube on topics related to homophobia, racism, sexism in movies and sports and it is a shame that they let it go... and don't get me started on biology and sciences.
 
MCT28 said:
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is still stirring up headlines months after it has left theaters: The Mummy film ad banned from London Underground

First off: the girl isn't dead, she's possessed by a demon that makes her look dead.
Second: Don't people have anything better to do than complain about and investigate/ban a poster for a movie that has not only left theaters ages ago, but is already on home media and streaming?
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Them banning this months after it's already left theaters is so lulu.
 
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