One of this year’s bloodiest horror reimaginings is about to reach an even bigger audience.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy makes its global streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max on July 3. The following day, July 4, it airs on HBO’s linear channel at 8:00 p.m. ET, perfectly timed for a holiday weekend horror binge.
This isn’t the Brendan Fraser Mummy. Cronin, who directed 2019’s The Hole in the Ground before breaking through with Evil Dead Rise, has gone back further, drawing from the gothic horror roots of the 1932 original rather than the action-adventure tone of the ’90s franchise. The story follows a journalist’s young daughter who vanishes into the desert without a trace. Eight years later, she’s returned to her broken family, but what should be a joyful reunion quickly turns into a living nightmare.
The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Verónica Falcón. It’s written and directed by Cronin and produced by James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and New Line Cinema. It’s rated R for strong disturbing violent content, gore, language, and brief drug use.
The Mummy opened in US theaters on April 17 and earned just over $90 million worldwide on a budget in the mid-$20 million range, a solid return for a mid-budget horror film with no franchise safety net.
For anyone who missed it in theaters, July 3 is the first chance to see why Cronin’s take on the material sparked as much conversation as it did.
