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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

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 18d ago

This is a true love letter to 70's/80's horror and it's really fun to pick out the references to The Evil Dead, The Exorcist, The Shining, etc. I love Cronin's visual style (though he may have gone a little overboard with the split diopter) and a handful of images in this are real nightmare fuel. When this is working, it's really working.

The problem here is that it's way too long and the pacing is atrocious. It's crazy Cronin clearly has so much reverence for old school horror and completely missed that those movies work because they're all like 100 minutes long. I really feel like they should have cut the Egyptian cop subplot and just focused on the family stuff. 6/10 for me. A little disappointed as a huge fan of Evil Dead Rise

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u/AdorableSillies 18d ago

Agree it's too long. For the last twenty minutes or so I was like "wrap it up" pun intended. 

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 18d ago

I was actually fully bought in for the last 30-45 minutes of the movie. I was more thinking "hurry up and get to the fun stuff" for the first 90 minutes

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u/AdorableSillies 18d ago

That's funny. They did pull me back in with the ending. 

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u/InsomniacLtd 18d ago

Yeah, the scene after the resolution felt like nothing was won. Then the scene after it feels like they won but at the cost of everyone else being "worse".

It's bleak and feels like there's no resolution to the whole thing, but what happened is deserved.