News Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Trailer Teases a Totally Different Mummy Than That Other Mummy Nobody’s going to make any excellent declarations about being a librarian in THIS movie, I bet By Molly Templeton | Published on January 12, 2026 Photo: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Warner Bros. To be fair, writer-director Lee Cronin made Evil Dead Rise, which was generally quite well-received. But he’s not exactly a household name—which makes the choice to call his new film Lee Cronin’s The Mummy an odd one. Presumably it is to differentiate between this Mummy and the various other Mummys, though of course in this house there is only one true Mummy. But you could just, you know, pick another title. At any rate, there’s a teaser for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, and it is mostly just creepy bandaged vibes—plus a bit of the quickly-growing-ubiquitous slightly-distorted-voice-repeats-some-words thing that everyone is doing in the wake of the trailer for 28 Years Later. Is this the new “haunted-child-sings-slowed-down-pop-song?” I guess it could be worse. At least the opening of the trailer doesn’t go ping. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is about a family whose little girl goes missing in the desert. “Eight years later,” the synopsis says, “the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.” Or is it an undead nightmare? Cronin told IGN that his film is “almost one part Poltergeist and one part Seven, but put through my lens and the way that I like to entertain people.” He also said, “This movie is coming from a very different place, and it’s not even a reinvention of mummy lore; it’s looking into darker places and doing something different with what we think we might already know.” Lee Cronin’s The Mummy stars Jack Reynor (The Peripheral), Laia Costa (The Wheel of Time), May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Natalie Grace (Raymar), and Veronica Falcón (Imaginary). It has superstar horror producers James Wan and Jason Blum on board, in case you need some extra reasons to give it a chance. This Mummy stalks into theaters on April 17th.[end-mark] The post <i>Lee Cronin’s The Mummy</i> Trailer Teases a Totally Different Mummy Than That Other Mummy appeared first on Reactor.