Lee Cronin’s Dracula?! ‘The Mummy’ Director Shares Plot Details On Original Vampire Movie [Exclusive]

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is now available on digital ahead of its physical media release on July 14. While speaking with Dread Central about the Blumhouse release, we asked Cronin which Universal Monster he might be interested in tackling next, if given the chance.

His answer: Dracula.

“I always think about Dracula and vampire world because I’m from Ireland and so is Bram Stoker,” Cronin told Dread Central. “I’ve always kind of been drawn to that space.”

Cronin, who previously reinvented the Deadites with Evil Dead Rise, said his interest in vampire stories goes beyond Stoker’s most famous creation. The filmmaker also revealed that he’s developed an original vampire script titled Beast and the Rat.

“It was a super urban vampire story,” Cronin explained. “More like an addiction tale. It was this really dark, gritty black-and-white urban horror tale about a guy that gets bitten by a neighbor and then they’re just trying to exist in the world.”

When asked whether he had ever imagined a Dracula story of his own, Cronin pointed back to Stoker.

“Maybe Bram Stoker’s story though,” he said. “Maybe about Bram himself and something interesting in that space could be quite fun.”

For now, Cronin’s latest monster movie is The Mummy, available now on digital and arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD July 14.