Film Review : Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

After thinking about this film for awhile, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, might end up as horrors most confused film of the year.

We follow a family, who after their daughter without a trace disappears, suddenly gets the call that their daughter has been found. Soon though they realize that she isn’t the same daughter they had 8 years prior.

The Mummy here is just utterly confused at what it wants to be. The premise itself works and could have done so many great things. It just can’t decide if this is an exorcist movie, an Evil Dead movie, or what. Plus at over 2 hours it just drags on for moments when there is no reason for it too.

Instead we get something that is so hyper focused on getting us back at the families house that even the bare basic logic in a horror movie is overlooked. The daughter is found and immediately given back to the family and moved out of the country. Basic logic about this girl is overlooked so we can get a simple ‘the mom can fix her angle’ and then by our climax rules are out the window. Powers are now randomly introduced that never were even mentioned and the film just goes all out with whatever angle they want.

Now some parts do work here. The subplot of a cop in Egypt trying to uncover what actually happened to the families daughter works. It becomes a dark cop drama if only in small bits but even then shows how the film is barely pieced together. Thankfully the gross out factor here shines. This little mummified girl looks disgusting, moves gross, is leaky and nasty, and just unsettlingly to see.

By the end though, even with a mean twist of a finish here, the film just feels like it never finds it footing. I’m unsure of what it wanted to be because instead we just get so many different story pieces and elements of other films thrown in here.

Score :

2.5 / 5