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
The Hole in the Ground
Director (2019)
Evil Dead Rise
(2023)
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).
Awards
ominee, Breakout Director, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Winner, Jury Prize, Fant-Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival (2019); Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award (2020); Winner, Young Jury Award for Best Short Film, San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (2014).
