{"id":1052200,"date":"2026-06-26T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1052200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:59:23","slug":"lee-cronins-the-mummy-sinks-its-teeth-into-hbo-max-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1052200\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Sinks Its Teeth Into HBO Max Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

In retrospect, Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy was maybe not the best title Atomic Monster and Blumhouse could\u2019ve gone with. While Lee Cronin<\/a>, who also made Evil Dead Rise<\/a>, is a talented director, he\u2019s not exactly well-known enough to have his name attached to the title as a way to draw in audiences. It had the unfortunate effect of making the movie something of a punch line even before it hit theaters, and catty rumors about producer James Wan storming out of a test screening (which Cronin said were false<\/a>) circulated.<\/p>\n

Plus, there was that whole \u201cthis ain\u2019t the Brendan Fraser Mummy\u201d confusion, especially after the fourth movie in that franchise<\/a> was announced, which Blumhouse decided<\/a> to just go ahead and lean into wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n

However, a few months have passed. There\u2019s some distance from all that, and now Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy has its HBO Max streaming date set: July 3. While we had mixed feelings<\/a> about the movie\u2019s plot\u2014it\u2019s all a bit too familiar, with a lot of Exorcist echoes in its spooky-kid possession narrative\u2014it\u2019s definitely worth checking out on the small screen.<\/p>\n

That goes double if you\u2019re a gore connoisseur; creative splatter<\/a> is one of Cronin\u2019s signature moves<\/a>, and he deploys it perfectly in his Mummy take. A funeral scene involving a corpse\u2019s false teeth is particularly gruesome, though not quite as traumatizing as that cheese-grater situation in Evil Dead Rise.<\/p>\n

The official synopsis of Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy is \u201cThe young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace\u2014eight 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.\u201d It stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Veronica Falc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

The movie starts streaming on HBO Max July 3; you can catch it on HBO linear on July 4 starting at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In retrospect, Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy was maybe not the best title Atomic Monster and Blumhouse could\u2019ve gone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1052201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,25127,207321,3943,16,15],"class_list":["post-1052200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-lee-cronins-the-mummy","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}