As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a fairly avid fan of horror movies.
So, it was only natural that I took some time to check out “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” remake that has been haunting our theater.
The re-imagined take on arguably one of my favorite monster movies has had a lot riding on its shoulders in my book.
Unfortunately, the movie relied heavily on predictable jump scares, a whole lot of body horror that made me a little squeamish in some parts and even then, nothing could save the whole thing from dragging on much longer than necessary.
The concept was fairly interesting and featured a lot of similar elements to its “Mummy” predecessors, but I’m not a big fan of it overall.
Mummy is a 2026 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Lee Cronin as a reimagining of The Mummy franchise.
The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, Billie Roy, Emily Mitchell, Dean Allen Williams, Aisha Laouini, Haya Kamille, and Verónica Falcón.
James Wan and Jason Blum produce the film through their respective production banners, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse Productions, alongside Wicked/Good.
The movie itself is rated R for strong disturbing violent content, gore, language and brief drug use and is 134 minutes long – too long if you ask me!
In Aswan, Egypt, a man, a woman, their two sons, and their daughter Layla (Laouini), arrive home to find their pet bird dead.
After telling their children to stay upstairs, the parents go to the cellar, which is revealed to be built on a buried black pyramid.
Inside, a black basalt sarcophagus contains mummified human remains that begin moving once the lid is lifted.
And, once the mummy exposed to open air, the father is killed by a supernatural force.
In Cairo, investigative TV reporter Charlie Cannon (Reynor) lives with his pregnant wife Larissa (Costa) and their children Katie (Mitchell) and Sebastián (Williams).
Secretly, Katie is friends with Layla and meets her in the family garden every once in a while.
One morning, Katie is visited by the woman from Aswan, known as the Magician (Kamille).
She identifies herself as Layla’s mother and uses candy to lure Katie away before kidnapping her.
Charlie gives chase but loses them in a sandstorm.
He and Larissa report the kidnapping to the authorities, working with an English-speaking junior detective Dalia Zaki (Calamawy) while the lead detective suspects the parents.
Eight years later, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Charlie, Larissa, Sebastián, and their third child, Maud (Roy), now live in the home of Larissa’s Catholic mother Carmen Santiago (Falcon).
In Aswan, a teenager witnesses a cargo plane carrying the sarcophagus crash.
Inside the sarcophagus, archaeologists find Katie (Grace) wrapped in parchment inscribed with an ancient language.
Katie, who is in a catatonic state and habitually self-harms, is moved back home with Charlie and Larissa.
The family refuses to seek further medical help despite Katie’s erratic behavior, in which she frequently escapes her room and mutilates herself.
After noticing the inscriptions on Katie’s skin, Charlie consults an archaeology professor – Dr. Bixier - who translates the writings.
The inscriptions are about Nasmaranian, an ancient demon who destroys families and communities, but is kept at bay through ritual mummification that embeds the scripture into skin.
As the scripture is removed, Nasmaranian becomes more powerful.
Naturally, as the demon’s power grows, so do the problems the Canon family is facing and predictably, things get worse before they get better.
All I have to say is that you aren’t missing much by skipping out on this flick.
