Let’s be honest after the spectacular misfire of 2017’s The Mummy (you know, the one that was supposed to launch a whole “Dark Universe” and, er, didn’t), audiences could be forgiven for approaching a new Mummy film with caution. But Jason Blum, the man whose Blumhouse banner redefined horror for a generation is here to tell you that this one is genuinely, categorically different. And he’s brought receipts.
Jason Blum says, “Monster movies started out as scary movies and over time they grew big to four quadrant family movies. The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon all of those stories were originally horror and over time, they grew into something else. And I think one thing that’s unique about this movie is that it’s taking this old legend and bringing it back to its roots, which was what the Mummy was, which is scary as hell.”
The man has a point. Go back to the original 1932 Boris Karloff film and you’ll find something genuinely eerie a slow-burn dread that later iterations progressively softened. Blum’s argument isn’t just nostalgic; it’s a production philosophy. And it explains why he and James Wan went all the way to Lee Cronin director of the electric Evil Dead Rise to bring this back to life.
“We’ve been a big fan of Lee’s for a while, since his previous movies, and we just felt that we wanted to do something different,” Blum told us. “We wanted it to be a scary film, visceral in a powerful way, and for it to stand apart from the previous iterations of the Mummy franchises. And when we met with Lee, he felt the same way and so we just left him to it.” High praise and high stakes.
The Egypt connection
Blum revealed that a personal trip to Egypt with his wife directly shaped the film’s tone. “One of the things that stuck out to me the most is the tombs where the pharaohs were buried, and how much of what’s inside has survived thousands of years. All these stories that are told, some of which we understand, some of which we don’t.” That real-world awe of unresolved ancient mystery, he says, is precisely what Cronin channelled.
What really sets this version apart, though, is where Blum says the horror actually lives — not in spectacle, but in emotional stakes. “The movie that Lee made delivers fear, horror, and excitement because of all of the layers he’s included and because it’s emotional,” he explained. “You’re very tied up in the fate of this family — you care about them. Then suddenly, a child goes missing and there’s terror that comes with that. And setting it in the context of this mummy mythology makes it that much scarier.” Family in danger. Ancient evil. A director who knows exactly how to wield both.
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