Lee Cronin

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

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Close up of Katie

I was initially suspicious of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy – does anyone care who Lee Cronin is, or his Mummy, and why should this film bear his name? It turns out there’s a good reason for the director’s name up top – no one involved wanted audiences thinking they were getting a continuation of either the Brendan Fraser-era The Mummy (1999), or the 2017 one, which was frankly rather a bizarre cinematic use of Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe, but there you go. Those were in different ways action movies and this is most assuredly horror. Cronin you may know from Evil Dead Rise, which was an efficiently horrible kind of shocker with … Read more

Evil Dead Rise

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Alyssa Sutherland as a possessed Ellie

Who’s been watching The Exorcist? Writer/director Lee Cronin has, and Evil Dead Rise, the fifth instalment in the Evil Dead franchise, is thick with references to William Friedkin’s seminal 1973 horror movie. No bad thing in itself and just for fun Cronin chucks in an amusing reference to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining at one point, just to keep things lively. Comedy has been part of the mix in the Evil Dead series, going back to halfway through the second instalment when director Sam Raimi suddenly pushed the ick factor so far beyond overload that it became funny. It seemed unintentional, a misjudgement, at first. But going repeatedly too far proved Raimi meant it … Read more