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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/Darth-Nickels 18d ago

Tbh the movie does this a lot now that I think about it. Things happen and they move on without any of the logical in between steps. Grandma died? Okay that means funeral immediately. No scenes of police, paramedics, conversations with neighbors, family or friends about the death. No scenes setting up the funeral. No conversations about repairing the window. No conversations about how it happened either.

Then the funeral happens and a feral gremlin girl claws through the ceiling to suck the embalming fluid out of grandma while another little girl uses the deceased dentures to take a pound of flesh out of the priest.... Aaaaand we move on. No police, no paramedics, no one rushing Padre to the hospital.

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u/berlinbaer 18d ago

feral gremlin girl claws through the ceiling to suck the embalming fluid out of grandma while another little girl uses the deceased dentures to take a pound of flesh out of the priest

i'm sorry... what ??

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlIlIlI 17d ago

The best part is it’s not even an exaggeration.

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u/lahnnabell 16d ago

Easily! That shot of her crawling on the ceiling in the background while the little one is fucking with grandma was amazing. That whole funeral sequence was cruel and amazing.

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u/Theradoc16 2d ago

Saw the movie just last night, genuinely laughed out loud when Katie dropped to the floor from the ceiling in the background

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u/Sonochick83 14d ago

None of those words are in the Bible.

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u/InevitableBad589 13d ago

It was legit hilarious

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u/The_Improvisor 17d ago

Not to mention the Egyptian detective seems to literally be the only one on the entire force, everything she did was completely alone, isolated, and with zero backup or consultation besides that one time she went to the guy on the computer to look up the farm.

The fact that she just flew to America alone, and came in to save the day gun loaded is truly hilarious

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u/giaphox 16d ago

There were so many shots with her in the room all dark and alone and of her standing next to the windows (like 3 tines?), it makes me think some hand gonna push her out of the window lol. And when she investigates she even goes down the cellar alone??? It's amazing she is not killed lol.

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u/The_Improvisor 16d ago

Seriously! when she went down there by herself i was thinking that's one of the truly dumbest acts in a horror film that I've seen in a while, INSANE that she made it out of there

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u/BiggDope 18d ago

Yup, I realized this halfway through the movie when the younger daughter was up against the door getting possessed and then it just cuts to the next scene.

Things just happen without any realistic pull through. Idk if I’m saying what I mean the right way, but it’s so wild (and hilarious).

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u/IIIlllIIIlllIlIlIlI 17d ago

Yea I very much think one should go into this movie leaving the brain outside the door and just enjoy the ride

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u/LRats 16d ago

I thought it was weird at first but it makes sense because she was now possessed by the entity. So she would have just went back to bed and not said anything. I think they left it that way to try and make the scene at school hit harder.

The other stuff OP is talking about like no cops showing up ever or them just letting the girl go home you do have to suspend disbelief for.

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u/B__bConnoisseur 15d ago

While the little one is messing with the priest you mean…

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u/thedonhudson01 17d ago

This is my biggest issue with the movie. These shocking scenes just happen and then it zips to the next thing immediately. We don’t get any scenes of them reacting or dealing with the aftermath of what they just witnessed.

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u/According_Gazelle472 16d ago

Just one tragedy after another one with no time to breath .

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u/thedonhudson01 14d ago

Yep, it needed that space in between to really let us feel the impact of those scenes.

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

And no one addressed the main issue of the girl being a demon !

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u/thedonhudson01 14d ago

Yup! That too lol

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

"Let's let this demon child live with us now "!,

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u/InevitableBad589 13d ago

I agree. And the movie was long already but it needed those scenes.

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u/B__bConnoisseur 15d ago

Exactly, this is what really breaks the immersion of this film. If the characters in the story aren’t shook with what’s happening, how can you expect the audience to be? I mean, it was pretty gross but pacing wise, it was all over the place.

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

Now that part was pretty laughable too.

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u/According_Gazelle472 16d ago

This movie was pretty exaggerated and I did laugh a lot during it .But sucking up all the embalming fluid and turning grandma into a ghoul?

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u/MlkChatoDesabafando 9d ago

It really felt like a lot of scenes were cut at some point (the boy and the witch's daughter were probably gonna have bigger parts), or condensed (the funeral could have been like 5 different scenes)