Title – Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Director – Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise)

Cast – Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace

Plot – When their daughter Katie (Grace) is found after being abducted 8 years prior, loving parents Charlie (Reynor) and Larissa Cannon (Costa) begin to suspect the girl they once knew as their own is no longer the Katie in their home. 

“What was our daughter doing in a three thousand year old sarcophagus?”

Review by Eddie on 10/07/2026

As hard as poor old Katie’s journey in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is, getting abducted by an Egyptian witch and locked in a sarcophagus isn’t usually the starting point to a good time, one thing’s for sure, her lovely mum and dad, played by frequently wide-eyed Jack Reynor and Laia Costa, are some of the most tolerant and understanding movie parents in some time.

Having been missing for the better part of 8 years, taken when she was a young child, Reynor’s Charlie and Costa’s Larissa Cannon beloved daughter Katie returns to them in worse for wear shape but no matter the skin-peeling, scorpion eating, head-butting and neck nibbling antics Katie delves into, Charlie and Larissa keep on keeping on, even if we and everyone else around them sees that Katie needs more than a little vitamin D and nail clipping to get back on the path of normality.

Very different to the Mummy films I grew up with in the late 90’s, Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin, alongside his producing team of James Wan and Jason Blum go very Evil Dead here as they explore the nefarious otherworldly terrors of an unknown Egyptian entity making its way to the other side of the world to haunt and terrorise our poor Cannon clan.

Similar in style and substance to Cronin’s last effort, which saw him gain much attention with his bloody take on the Evil Dead brand name, The Mummy can’t at all be taken seriously and it has plot holes and narrative flaws everywhere you look but it does also provide some intriguing moments of mystery and terror as well as some big moments of wince inducing gore, even if much of its good work is threatened to be undone by an overly excessive runtime and feeling of repetitiveness.

Clocking in bizarrely at over 130 minutes, Cronin would’ve done well to trim off a solid 30 – 40 minutes of his film as it outstays its welcome with a series of similar happenings and events that start to wear thin after the first 2 – 3 times, especially when so many of them are so outlandish and obvious that it becomes harder and harder to accept that the Cannon crew would be so willing to stay in a house with little Katie as she goes about her devious deeds.

At one stage there’s a particular instance at a wake where Katie and a little helper get up to some particularly noteworthy shenanigans that one would suspect might have attracted the attention of local law enforcement or at the very least a nice trip to a mental health facility for Katie, who instead ends up back in her bedroom like nothing happened, waiting for her next chance to peel a layer or two of her skin off.

As is the case with this type of horror film, specifically those films with more of an overt supernatural/unrealistic spin on them, you need to suspend your better judgements to gain maximum joy but Cronin’s self-indulgence and inability to even attempt to make logical narrative choices or clear character decision making holds The Mummy back from being anything special, as it instead barely passes into the mediocrity realm of cinematic entertainment.

Final Say –

With some neat ideas, cool visuals and a clearly committed cast, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has some impressive components but is in most instances held back by numerous flaws and missteps, making Cronin’s unnecessarily epic horror outing one that’s hard to recommend.

2 1/2 VHS tapes out of 5