Lee Cronin's The Mummy 4K 2026

I watched the new "Mummy"—and I have to admit, it’s the first horror movie in a long time that really managed to scare me. And it doesn’t rely on clichéd jump scares, but rather on the situation the characters find themselves in.

Imagine: your daughter has been kidnapped in a foreign country. You’ve been searching for her for eight years, but to no avail. Over time, the pain has dulled; you’ve learned to move on, leaving it in the past like a terrible nightmare. And then—a phone call that turns everything upside down. Your daughter has been found. She’s alive. But she was found in a 5,000-year-old sarcophagus, and she looks… like a mummy.

The doctors shrug their shoulders: they assure you that she’s fine, just suffering from prolonged shock and needs time to adjust. You bring her home, but the joy of the reunion quickly turns into a nightmare.

“The Mummy” is first and foremost a family drama, and only then a horror film. All the suspense revolves around the parents’ agonizing choice. They see that their child has been possessed by an ancient evil, but they can’t “get rid of” it—after all, she’s their flesh and blood. Their powerlessness in the face of evil that has taken the form of their own child is the film’s most terrifying aspect.

Behind the project are heavyweights of the genre: James Wan (the mastermind behind “Saw” and “Insidious”) and Jason Blum of Blumhouse. Director Lee Cronin, who already proved his mettle with the hard-hitting “Evil Dead: Uprising,” has now firmly established himself in the big leagues.

The film has no shortage of “juicy” moments. Just take the scene with the youngest daughter and her grandmother’s dentures—I guarantee that image will stick in your memory for a long time. The film masterfully plays on the parental instinct: you must protect your daughter, even if she’s no longer herself...

Bottom line: if you’ve been missing classic horror movies, go see this one without hesitation. The only caveat is the runtime of 2 hours and 13 minutes. The film doesn’t feel dragged out; it’s just that the story demands deep immersion and doesn’t tolerate rushing.