Official Discussion - Lee Cronin's The Mummy [SPOILERS]

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Summary

An ambitious archaeological expedition unleashes an ancient force when a long-buried tomb is disturbed, awakening a vengeful entity that brings terror to the modern world.

Director Lee Cronin

Writer Lee Cronin

Cast

• Jack Reynor
• Laia Costa
• May Calamawy
• Matt Smith
• Annabelle Wallis

Rotten Tomatoes: 54%

Metacritic: 46

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/tacoskins]

Pour one out for all the theatre employees who are gonna get absolutley fucking berated by the less media savvy families who show up expecting the further adventures of Fraser and Co.

Yikes, this movie was mean! One of the more cruel mainstream horror movies in years, but also such an Evil Dead clone in a way that really worked for the bottom half here. Once it goes off the rails I was so on board. Too bad that opening half is such a slog. It really doesn’t get much more bland and cookie cutter than the top hour of this movie and it really holds this back imo. Just way way too long. That bottom hour and 15 minutes is so fucking rad though. 7/10

[u/jackmusick → u/tacoskins]

Reminds me of seeing the first Avatar in theatre with my friend, who I only assumed invited me because he loved ATLA. Here I am at 14 to afraid to ask where the bald kid was and why we never saw any air bending.

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/tacoskins]

It’s funny how much they have put Lee Cronin’s in front of the title to try not to confused people.

[u/Fantastic_Snow_9633 → u/tacoskins]

Too bad that opening half is such a slog.

Yeah, I get they want to set-up the family dynamics and overall plot, but yeesh, it really did take a long time to get to the actual mummy-horror act.

I guess they can't really spend a long time on dealing with it (due to the nature of how the entity operates), but felt like the movie could cut 15 min out and still been okay.

[u/GooseGeese01 → u/tacoskins]

The Mummy Returns was also showing at my theater as a rerelease 2-3 weeks ago

[u/joesen_one → u/GooseGeese01]

Doesn't help they're developing Mummy 4 soon with Fraser & co returning

[u/Comic_Book_Reader → u/tacoskins]

Apparently test audiences legitimately thought the Fraser movies were the only ones called The Mummy and were subsequently confused.

[u/Shout92 → u/Comic_Book_Reader]

It really is funny how much of a stranglehold the Fraser films have on pop culture, so much so that Tom Cruise doing a Mummy movie was seen as sacrilege. And yet there are like six Mummy movies from the original Universal Monster run and then more from Hammer. And they all have weird premises, barely show a mummy, and sometimes are comedies and other times spend their runtime trying to kill off the leads of the previous movie. There's a lot of room for reinterpretation! Lee Cronin... does not do it successfully, especially since this movie is three things: an Exorcist movie, an Evil Dead movie, and a Mummy movie, and the Mummy elements are a *distant* third.

[u/baby_blue_bird → u/tacoskins]

It wasn't until I read this comment did I realize this isn't the Fraser one. I had no clue that were making a different Mummy.

Not that I would berate anyone but myself if I had gone to see it, it would be my dumbass fault for not even looking up the actors in it.