LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY

(director/writer: Lee Cronin; cinematographer: Dave Garbet; editor: Bryan Shaw; music: Stephen McKeon; cast: Jack Reynor (Charlie), Laia Costa (Larissa Cannon), Natalie Grace (Katie), May Calmaway (Det. Dalia Zaki), Shylo Molina (Sebastian Cannon), Billie Roy (Maud Cannon), Lily Sullivan (Miss Mills), Hayat Kamille (The Magician), Verónica Falcón (Carman Santiago), Emily Mitchell (Young Katie Cannon), May Elghety (Layla Kahil); Runtime: 93; MPAA Rating: R; producers: James Wan, Jason Blum, John Keville; New Line Cinema/Warner Bros.; 2026-Ireland/USA/Spain/Canada-English, Spanish, Arabic)

“An overlong bloody thriller that’s loosely wrapped.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Irish director Lee Cronin (“Evil Dead Rise”/”The Hole in the Ground”) re-imagines Boris Karloff’s “The Mummy” (1932) in his nonsensical possession horror pic and makes his Mummy pic into an overlong bloody thriller that’s loosely wrapped.

Katie (Natalie Grace) is a 9-year-old girl kidnapped in Cairo when she was living with her parents who worked there. Eight years later she’s mysteriously found alive in Cairo, when found still alive in a plane crash, after placed in an ancient sarcophagus. Her shocked parents, the TV journalist Charlie (Jack Reynor) and the nurse Larissa (Laia Costa), bring their severely deformed daughter back home to Albuquerque to nurse her back to health instead of getting her professional treatment in a medical facility. Also at home is Katie’s retired beauty salon owner grandmother Carmen (Verónica Falcón), her moody teenage brother Sebastián (Shylo Molina), and her 7-year-old sister Maud (Billie Roy). But no one in the family can bond with her.

It leads to a bloody final act, where Katie eats live scorpions in the attic, vomits and turns into a possessed bloody killermummy.

The acting is terrible, the story’s execution is poor, and the screenplay is balderdash.

REVIEWED ON 4/20/2026  GRADE: C-
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