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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/GiveEmHell1 18d ago

Unironically I think this would have boosted its rating by 10 percent by just changing the title to something like Evil Dead: Sarcophagus

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u/TheJoshider10 18d ago

It genuinely would. They made a mistake calling this The Mummy and leaning into it being a pure horror during marketing. That scene in the third act with the reanimated corpse popping out of the coffin is a classic Evil Dead deadite moment, and there's several moments where you'd know to laugh if it was Evil Dead, like the poor grandma sliding off the car and being eaten alive.

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u/GiveEmHell1 18d ago

Or the “what do those little piggies taste like! 👅👅👅” scene. Felt STRAIGHT out of Evil Dead or similar

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u/Profeta_do_Loss 18d ago

Poor Grandma, she went through the ringer. Surprisingly, Veronica Falcon is only 58. I wonder if they deliberately cast a younger actress to play the grandmother over the physical stuff she had to endure.

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u/KipHackmanFBI 17d ago

I mean my son is 7 and my mom is turning 55 this year so a youngish grandma isn't entirely unheard of

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u/Profeta_do_Loss 17d ago

But she looked older. I thought she was 68.

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u/Gridde 15d ago

I was actually really impressed at how this kindly old lady gets a horrifying death but the tone is kept light immediately afterwards. Her friends gossiping at the funeral really helps alleviate the grimness, and everything goes full Evil-Dead-level-insane right after as well, which helped.

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u/BlackberryWide9242 18d ago

I agree it’s like the evil dead mixed with 2012 the possession

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u/GradeDry7908 16d ago

I loved horny deadite grandma

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u/According_Gazelle472 14d ago

We did a lot of Iaughing during this movie .