Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026)
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a 2026 horror movie directed by Lee Cronin, with a running time of 2h 13m. It stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa and May Calamawy.
A journalist's young daughter walks into the desert one day and simply does not come back. Eight years later, with the family already hollowed out by the loss, she is delivered back to their door. The homecoming everyone prayed for curdles fast into something wrong, and the film keeps its worst cards face down. Directed by Lee Cronin, who made The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise, this is dread built on a returned child and the quiet question of what came back with her. Horror that starts at a locked front door.
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What is Lee Cronin's The Mummy about?
A journalist's young daughter walks into the desert one day and simply does not come back. Eight years later, with the family already hollowed out by the loss, she is delivered back to their door. The homecoming everyone prayed for curdles fast into something wrong, and the film keeps its worst cards face down. Directed by Lee Cronin, who made The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise, this is dread built on a returned child and the quiet question of what came back with her. Horror that starts at a locked front door.
When was Lee Cronin's The Mummy released?
Lee Cronin's The Mummy was released on 15 April 2026.
How long is Lee Cronin's The Mummy?
Lee Cronin's The Mummy runs 2h 13m.
Who made Lee Cronin's The Mummy?
Lee Cronin's The Mummy was directed by Lee Cronin.
Where can I watch Lee Cronin's The Mummy?
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is available on Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
Cast
- Jack Reynor as Charlie Cannon
- Laia Costa as Larissa Cannon
- May Calamawy as Detective Dalia Zaki
- Natalie Grace as Katie Cannon
- Shylo Molina as Sebastián Cannon
- Billie Roy as Maud Cannon
- Veronica Falcón as Carmen Santiago
- Hayat Kamille as The Magician
- May Elghety as Layla Khalil
- Emily Mitchell as Young Katie Cannon
- Husam Chadat as Detective Ismail
- Tim Seyfi as Doctor El-Sayed
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A few thoughts on Lee Cronin's The Mummy
The Snow Girl works the same wound, a child gone without a trace and a family that cannot stop searching, told as a slow-burn thriller. On the page, The jackal's head trades the horror for desert-mystery adventure in Egypt, if the sand and the buried past are what hook you.
Horror where a missing child comes back wrong
Lee Cronin's The Mummy turns on a daughter who vanishes into the desert and is delivered back eight years later, changed. These stories share that cold premise of a missing person returned or hunted, where a family's relief slowly curdles into fear of what they let back inside the house.
Slow-burn disappearance thrillers that keep their cards hidden
Before the horror in Cronin's film shows its hand, the dread grows out of an unexplained disappearance and the search around it. These slow-burn mysteries work the same nerve, following families and investigators through quiet, mounting unease rather than jump scares, holding their worst answers back until late.
Recent horror that favors creeping menace over gore
The Mummy sits in a 2026 horror wave built on slow menace rather than splatter. If Cronin's returned-child dread lands for you, these recent releases chase a similar creeping wrongness, letting something quietly off take hold before anyone in the frame understands what they are dealing with.
Ancient curses and tombs that should have stayed shut
Cronin drops the classic mummy into a modern grief story, but the old curse still lurks underneath. These books and films keep that ancient-evil thread alive, digging up tombs, relics, and things far older than the people foolish enough to disturb them.