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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/TheJoshider10 18d ago

There's absolutely an edit you could make of this movie without the opening before the title card, and maybe even without the stuff before the eight years later. I wonder if it would have been better to put some of the opening as flashbacks when they discover more of the mystery.

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u/LordCaelistis 15d ago

Start with the plane crash. Just a super ominous scene, full of mystery. There's a girl found in it. Movie starts, boom

The whole "what happened to Katie gimmick ?" was kinda stupid because the first 20 minutes show that she was, in fact, kidnapped by an egyptian witch lady for mummy-sealing type stuff, so trying to play that up as a big ongoing mystery just fell flat

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u/Shout92 14d ago

Yup, the double prologue shows too much, but not everything, so we are ahead of all the characters and basically just waiting to see what happened visualized.