Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Goes Full Horror, and It’s a Homecoming From Hell
Lee Cronin is bringing The Mummy back with a trailer that plays like a family nightmare first, monster movie second. The newly released preview introduces a fractured household still living inside an old wound: their daughter Katie vanished in the Cairo desert eight years ago, and the grief has had time to calcify into routine. Then the call comes in, and the impossible arrives with it. Katie has been found.
The Mummy | Photo Credit: Blumhouse and Warner Bros.
From there, the trailer leans hard into dread and rules-of-survival tension. Before the reunion, the parents are warned to keep their reactions controlled, no sudden movements, no loud noises, as if their child is both victim and volatile trigger. When Katie finally appears, she’s alive, but visibly wrong, with the footage teasing a return shaped by something ancient. The big, horrifying answer to “where was she” is right there in the dialogue: a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus.
Cronin, coming off Evil Dead Rise, seems to be steering the franchise toward intimate, skin-crawling horror that lives inside the home, where love and fear share the same hallway. There are also hints that Katie’s case is part of a wider pattern, with the trailer nodding toward other missing girls and an escalating body count that suggests something systemic.
So far, the confirmed cast includes Jack Reynor and Laia Costa as Katie’s parents, with Natalie Grace as Katie, plus May Calamawy, Verónica Falcón, Shylo Molina, and Emily Mitchell. Behind the scenes, Cronin writes and directs, with James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville producing, and the film set up as a New Line / Atomic Monster / Blumhouse release through Warner Bros.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opens in theaters on April 17, 2026.
