Review: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)
By William Pattison
This time I got a demon possession movie that is pretending
to be a mummy movie…
Eight years after her sudden disappearance in Egypt, a
severely traumatized teenager is returned to her shattered family in New
Mexico, triggering a visceral nightmare as they realize she is hosting an
ancient, demonic parasite.
Ok, let’s get started…Yes, mummification happens in this
movie and some of it happens in Egypt, but this film is no way a proper mummy
movie. Shit, even that fucked up Tom Cruise Mummy movie is a proper mummy
movie. This film isn’t a mummy movie.
This movie is your standard demon stuck in a body film. Be
it an ancient Egyptian demon don’t mean
shit.
Now with this said I’m
not saying it’s not a good film.
It is just false advertising titling this film The Mummy. Egyptian crypt, mummy
wrappings with ancient Egyptian writing on them don’t make this film a mummy movie. The same with
some people speaking Egyptian or a ritual chanted in Egyptian. Nope, not a
mummy movie. But, of course, Lee Cronin knew this. Lee Cronin wanted to get
people in to see his/ or her movie. I doubt the director could find a title
that would get anyone to their movie. Titling it after the demon won’t work,
because no one knows this demon at all. I’m
not even sure it is a real Egyptian demon.
The film is well made and scary. Shit, it is about a carniverous
demon that loves to destroy families. It is basically the Egyptian Devil, that
has been bound by a single family for centuries. Yep, these people steal
children and jam this demon in them and lock them in a crypt to rot and suffer
till the demon uses the poor kid up. Then do it again. ... Yeah, so my point.
This film is a creepy kid movie, and damned if it is. This
kid is fucking scary and things get brutal. It is well worth the price of
admission, unless you are expecting a mummy movie. I bet Lee Cronin is friends
with that asshole that gave us a Wolfman movie that wasn’t a wolfman movie.
Come on, people, stop playing games and give us what you promised!! We are not
amused.
Technically this movie is great. It is atmospheric. It has good acting. It is scary as shit. It just plain is not as promoted and that is wrong. Still as an honest and wonderful reviewer I can’t give a negative review on a film that is actually entertaining, even if it is not a mummy movie. So, just to make it clear, it is not a mummy movie, but I’m still recommending it. Happy?
