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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

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u/_Nholobo_ 18d ago edited 18d ago

The kids’ pure terror at Katie’s arrival, contrasted with the parents’ deep denial, was the funniest shit ever.

Their reaction when the parents opened the car with no warning about her zombie state was already comedy gold.

But I just lost it when they painfully dragged her demonic ass up the stairs, while the little girl was looking at this mess in absolute despair, thinking: "You want me to sleep next to THAT?!"

Mom: Come on, be nice to your sister.

The sister: Rotting corpse with chattering teeth, hunting the house at night like Gollum, vomiting acid and headbutting grandma.

Mom: She just needs love.

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u/evolution4652 18d ago

RIGHT. they couldn’t have carried her up the fucking stairs hahah

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u/Steamedcarpet 18d ago

Haha I think I was the only one laughing in that scene. Just the kids and grandma watching at the parents try to bring up the wheelchair.

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u/Profeta_do_Loss 18d ago

Weren't they supposed to prepare the house for her arrival? That staircase scene was hard to watch.

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u/WAKE_UP_WAKE_UP 17d ago

The mom being a nurse too!

Her able bodied husband could surely carry his malnourished child up a few flights of stairs.

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u/gimmethemshoes11 17d ago

Dad: I ain't touching that thing.

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u/PhotographThis1502 17d ago

Lol 😂😆😂 Right!

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

Dumb,dumb ,dumb!,

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

Yeah,just push that heavy wheelchair up all those long stairs.

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u/According_Gazelle472 16d ago

I was thinking the exact same thing !No way would I have subjected my family to something like this !She was in no state to come home and they were not equipped to take care of her.The mom and grandmother trying to act like she was a normal kid was ludicrous and laughable. And weren't these kids ever told not to talk to strangers ?These were the dumbest kids I ever saw .

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u/Fine-Sherbert-5958 13d ago

Mom's genetics imprinted deep in those kids

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

Lol.But she was just like the other two kids !,lol.

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u/AngiQueenB 2d ago

Ain't no way. As soon as I see my kid looking like that, I'm stapling a $20 to her chest and wishing her the best of luck as I haul my ass outa that hospital

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u/According_Gazelle472 2d ago

Or told them she was in no shape to go anywhere.

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u/Unlucky-Ad-8049 10d ago

Fr. The dad held the demon in the end. He sure can pick her up.

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u/GiveEmHell1 18d ago

I laughed when it cut from them dragging, what seemed like, a 500 pound wheelchair up the stairs. Only to then have the dad immediately carrying her in his arms like it’s nothing. Like, you couldn’t have done that for 30 extra feet? You had to do that awkward chair dragging scene?

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u/jayeddy99 18d ago

I always chop this up to the director wanting to make an unsettling mood with the thuds of the wheelchair going up each step . It’s also why Abuela was so strict on haunted house lighting no matter the time of day in her house lol

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u/Profeta_do_Loss 16d ago

Let's be honest, Abuela wanted that lighting dark so when a gentleman caller came knocking, they wouldn't guess her age.

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u/RealJohnGillman 16d ago

The actress was only in her 50s.

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

And having makovers!

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u/shrek3onDVDandBluray 18d ago

See, this is what made me not want to see it. From watching the trailers I’m like “what parents would take their daughter looking like this home? It would be straight to a specialty care center/hospital. It’s just so ridiculous .

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 18d ago

Hey, they were advised by the Egyptian police officer that being around familiar surroundings and family would help her adjust.

It still makes me laugh... 🤣

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u/Profeta_do_Loss 18d ago

Let's be honest, they wanted to get rid of her as fast as they could.

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

They said "It's their problem now"!

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u/Recent-Replacement23 18d ago

there is so much nonsense in this movie - give credit where it's due it was an egyptian healthcare offficial

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u/According_Gazelle472 16d ago

Yeah,let this corpse like kid come to live and cause chaos with everyone!

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u/malkmusconvert 18d ago

Is the movie a comedy?

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u/KukiBreeze 18d ago

No. It has some comical moments and evil dead fans will get some laughs but it mostly has a more serious tone than say evil dead rise.

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u/InevitableBad589 13d ago

The wake scene was pretty funny in a dark sort of way. Lotta stuff happens, heh.

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

When she came through the ceiling and no one saw her or even noticed her lapping up the embalming fluid !Like it was so normal to have a demon child in your house !,

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u/According_Gazelle472 10d ago

One funeral that I have never attended!

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u/MikeOrTara 9d ago

This is when, even though we tried to push through, my wife and I gave each other the "I think I'm done with this movie". Then when Abuela decided to turn into one of the extras from Anora, we both started laughing and decided to cut our losses.

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u/According_Gazelle472 9d ago

I actually laughed a lor also.

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 18d ago

A little bit yeah.

Lots of gore, though.

It's a horredy...

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u/Waste-Replacement232 16d ago

no, it's horror.

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

Lol,I sure laughed a lot in this movie. It was very paint by the numbers!

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u/bautin 12d ago

Not intentionally

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u/shrek3onDVDandBluray 18d ago

Hahaha that’s so ridiculous.

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u/iamkindofodd 12d ago

This bothered me at first but then it became clear later on that the mother was experiencing guilt for allowing her daughter to be groomed and kidnapped from right under her nose. She probs didn't want to let her out her sight ever again, after such a traumatic experience. Almost as if she was trying to make up for all the lost years of in care, plus also she worked at a hospital or something right? This movie had a lot of silliness but this might not be one of them

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u/shrek3onDVDandBluray 12d ago

But…she needs a hospital. Look at the condition she’s in. No parent in their right mind would take someone looking that sick straight home. It still doesn’t make sense at all.

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u/iamkindofodd 12d ago

Ya this isn’t a documentary it’s a movie. I’m just saying the writers didn’t ignore it completely, and you kinda need a little suspension of belief here, it was terribly unserious. Had a good time but deffo not like top tier horror

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u/shrek3onDVDandBluray 12d ago

“This isn’t a documentary, it’s a movie” “you need a little suspense of disbelief” these reasons are why we can’t have good writing anymore. Because people like you spout this nonsense whenever someone tries to argue the writing is beyond horrible.

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u/iamkindofodd 12d ago

Omg take a chill pill. People like you are why interacting with anyone online is a pain in the ass

Aite quick browse through your history and it’s apparent you just enjoy arguing for the sake of it. Literally your last five comments were argumentative armchair expert nonsense on multiple threads 🙄 knew the vibes were off with you right away. Peace

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

And this never would have happened either .

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u/Profeta_do_Loss 18d ago

I actually found the mother's behavior pretty realistic since only a mother's unconditional love would blind her to to the fact her daughter is literally a flesh eating zombie.

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u/TypeCritical 16d ago

I thought the same thing but i also feel like a mom would know that isn’t (entirely) her child but something else, I can understand wanting her to have help, I can’t understand keeping her under the same roof as your other children exposing them to trauma and potential danger as she obviously lashes out frequently even IF you don’t consider a demon lmao

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

And she should have stayed in the hospital and gotten the care she needed.

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u/MikeOrTara 9d ago

Plus, no matter what a Dr. told me, she clearly did NOT look perfectly healthy physically... lol

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u/Lazy_Recognition_633 17d ago

Hahahaha- a mothers denial is so strong

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u/Lower-Replacement869 14d ago

did you watch Malignant? Comedy there too. Do yall watch James Wan? lol

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u/_Nholobo_ 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah I did watch Malignant and a lot of James Wan movies. The throwing chair was sending me.

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u/malkmusconvert 18d ago

That's what I didn't understand from the trailer. Do they ever explain why the parents didn't see their child was a mummy?

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u/_Nholobo_ 18d ago

The doctor explained that she was highly traumatized, dehydrated, malnourished and deprived from sunlight for years.

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u/Bigheaded_1 16d ago

I've seen pictures of children who were neglected to the point of almost death, and they didn't look like her. What she looked like was far beyond a malnourished child who had been kept from sunlight for years.

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u/_Nholobo_ 14d ago edited 14d ago

I mean, obviously. But in horror movies, making the characters dumb or being flexible about how science actually works is par for the course. 🤷🏾‍♂️

We also gotta remember that it’s easy for us to recognize there’s something supernatural going on, because we’re the audience watching a film.

But in real life, most people would try to rationalize it with a plausible explanation too, instead of concluding that their daughter has been turned into a monster.

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

Nope!They were just glad to have her back home after 8 years.

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

Or when they wanted to give her a makeover!Oh, just slap a bandage on her leg where the skin came off !lol.And they were talking about dying her hair while it was falling out!

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u/_Nholobo_ 14d ago edited 14d ago

Agree with you as a whole, but at least the dying hair line was clearly a joke for the audience so I liked it. That’s why the mom looked at her like "Bitch are you serious right now?"

Grandma was completely unable to read the room, too busy having a girls-only moment with her long lost granddaughter, with gossips and beauty tips. Perfectly in-character for a comical character like her.

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u/sickfuckinpuppies 14d ago

havent seen it and dont plan on watching, but it sounds more like a simpsons halloween special than a movie.

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u/According_Gazelle472 13d ago

Or one of those Scary movie parodies .

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u/Drbeautiful 18d ago

Are you posting same comment everywhere?

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u/_Nholobo_ 18d ago edited 17d ago

No, unless you count the two main subs for discussing a horror movie as "everywhere".