Lee Cronin is an Irish filmmaker best known for directing horror films such as ''
The Hole in the Ground'' (2019) and ''
Evil Dead Rise'' (2023), the fifth installment in the
''Evil Dead'' franchise.
Career
He first achieved recognition for his short horror film ''Ghost Train'' (2013), which won the
Méliès d'Argent and was featured in the 2016 anthology ''Minutes Past Midnight''. Continuing to work in the horror genre, he made his feature directorial debut with ''
The Hole in the Ground'' (2019).
In 2023, he wrote and directed ''
Evil Dead Rise'', the fifth film of the
''Evil Dead'' franchise. In June 2024, he signed on to write and direct a new adaptation of ''
The Mummy'' for
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Filmography
Short film
Feature film
Television
References
External links
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Irish horror film directors
Living people
Irish film directors
Irish screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Irish writers
Writers from Dublin (city)
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