Film Review: LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY (2026): Audiences Won’t Get Too Wrapped Up In This Ambitious but Numbing Horror Film
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Review
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Lee Cronin and starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, Shylo Molina, Billie Roy, Veronica Falcón, Hayat Kamille, May Eighety, Emily Mitchell, Tim Seyfi, Mark Mitchinson, Gideon Emery and Dean Allen Williams.
It’s hard to know who Lee Cronin’s The Mummy was made for. Even die hard horror movie fans will wince at the film’s unrelenting gore and mind numbing violence. This movie makes The Exorcist look like a dull trip to grandma’s house in retrospect. Lee Cronin’s movie is not for the faint of heart and has precious little to offer its audience in terms of character development and on-screen relationships that audiences can actually relate to. What The Exorcist and, to a lesser extent, The Conjuring movies had to offer in the way of complex characters and terrifying themes, Cronin’s movie replaces with a limited story line that audiences simply will not get too “wrapped up” in.
This film tells the story of a dad, Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor), and his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), on the verge of hell when their young daughter, Katie (played as a young girl by Emily Mitchell), gets kidnapped. Running over two hours and ten minutes in length with closing credits, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is a disturbing film and the premise is creepy beyond a reasonable doubt. We see Katie fall victim to a magician (Hayat Kamille) with alterior motives who has a sick plan to do something horrible to the innocent Katie and feeds her wrapped candy bars. It wouldn’t be fair to reveal the plot details of the movie since the plot development is quite minimal. The film literally rests on a tape that shows what really happened to Katie in a gruesome fashion late in the movie.
8 years after her disappearance, Charlie and Larissa are informed that Katie is still “alive.” They take her back in, but it’s not the same Katie anymore. Katie’s sister, Maud (Billie Roy), frighteningly discovers some terrifying revelations about her sister and the plot unveils many unnecessary scenes of possession that simply serve to pad the running time of a movie that’s short on big ideas and long on gore and violence.
Katie is played by Natalie Grace after the opening stages of the movie. Grace is asked to be scary and succeeds many times over thanks in large part to the gruesome make-up and special effects. The movie focuses on mummification just like the title promises and it reveals its sickening images in such a way that they can become frustrating to watch, especially with the sound effects taken up to the max with creepy noises complementing the graphic images. Mummification isn’t my forte so it’s hard to know how the logistics of the movie allow for the passing of evil spirits, but since this is a supernatural horror movie, one just rolls with the punches Cronin inflicts on the viewer.
The performances range from decent to merely adequate. Jack Reynor plays his journalist dad character with genuine sincerity and the mom is simply reduced to being in the background and telling Maud she can’t eat two slices of pizza in a scene right before Katie’s dire fate is revealed to the parents. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is an investment for the viewer due to its lengthy running time and if The Exorcist and The Conjuring are among your favorite horror movies, then it’s possible to get blown away by the lengths Cronin took to tell his horrific tale of terror.
A key scene has a severely possessed Katie asking her brother, Sebastian (Shylo Molina), to help her undress her bandages. Sebastian soon becomes evil too and the movie goes back and forth between trying to be a possession movie and just doing whatever the hell it wants in the name of creepiness. A cop played by May Calamawy adds a fair share of interesting moments to the film as does a character named Carmen Santiago (well played by Veronica Falcón), but the movie gets lost in its heavy special effects and scenes of Katie rocking back and forth and crawling all over the place till she’s trapped in a room for a bit, just to unnecessarily extend the running time to its lengthy two-hours plus duration.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy shouldn’t have been called a “Mummy” movie. It’s titled incorrectly. People will go in expecting one thing and get Linda Blair The Exorcist vibes through and through instead. Give Cronin credit, though. Nobody else would put their name on this film’s title except someone trying to prove themselves in the world of horror. Cronin may want to remove his name from the title one day. In fact, lets just go back to the drawing boards and call this what it is – anything but a definitive Mummy movie. How about The Possession of Katie Cannon? Forget it, though. Calling it that would make it seem like a run of the mill possession movie and whatever Lee Cronin’s The Mummy actually is, conventional would be the last word to describe it.
In the end, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy will scare those willing to be terrified, but because it’s almost impossible to get totally wrapped up in the characters or story line, the best advice for Cronin would be to avoid making Lee Cronin’s Frankenstein or Lee Cronin’s The Wolf Man or anything like that in the near future. This new movie is full enough of Lee Cronin’s twisted ideas for a lifetime and next up should be Lee Cronin’s Driving Miss Daisy. Oh, my, I wouldn’t want to know what Cronin would do with that one.
Rating: 5.5/10
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