Lee Cronin
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Lee Cronin is an Irish-born writer-director who emerged as a horror specialist in 2019 with the Sundance film festival premiere of the acclaimed The Hole in the Ground, which Cronin co-wrote with Stephen Shields, and a Belgian-Finnish-Irish-U.K. co-production distributed in the U.S. by A24, earning $3.4 million globally.
After writing and directing three previous shorts, Cronin’s career breakthrough arrived as writer-director of the short film, Ghost Train, one of the three shorts comprising the anthology horror movie, Minutes Past Midnight (2016), which earned Cronin the Méliès d'Argent prize from the Méliès International Festivals Federation.
Lee Cronin was tapped by Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi to be writer-director of the reboot of the cult horror franchise with Evil Dead Rise (2023), starring Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland, premiering at the South by Southwest film festival and released by Warner Bros.
Personal Details
Lee Cronin was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, by his father and his late mother Pauline. Cronin’s height is 5’ 8”.
Filmography
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- 2023 | Evil Dead Rise
Evil Dead Rise
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
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- 2019 | The Hole in the GroundasDirector
The Hole in the Ground
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
Some Facts About Lee Cronin
Influences: Lee Cronin has cited his key influences as a filmmaker to be Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, who themselves had collaborated (as director and creator, concurrently) on the sci-fi epic, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001).
