Lee Cronin's The Mummy hit digital platforms on May 19, 2026, following an April 17 theatrical run through Warner Bros., with the film now available to rent or buy and streaming via HBO Max's Amazon Channel.
Cronin, who broke through with Evil Dead Rise, discards the pharaoh-curse formula for a domestic horror premise: an ordinary family's missing daughter is returned eight years later, and her homecoming curdles into something monstrous.
The film centers on the Cannon family, led by Jack Reynor and Laia Costa as parents Charlie and Larissa, with May Calamawy as the detective pulled into their unraveling case. Cronin wrote and directed, working from a script produced by James Wan's Atomic Monster and Jason Blum's Blumhouse, alongside New Line Cinema.
The strongest reason to watch now is Cronin's stated influences: he has described the film as one part Poltergeist and one part Seven, filtered through a Breaking Bad-inspired color palette, and has said the project was shaped by grief following his mother's death, which occurred the same day he finished Evil Dead Rise. That personal weight shows in a film critics called more interested in family trauma than mummy mythology, even if reviews were mixed on pacing.
This is for viewers who want body horror with an emotional undertow rather than a pulpy adventure throwback: fans of Cronin's earlier work, or anyone drawn to grief-inflected horror in the vein of Hereditary, will find more here than straight monster-movie audiences expecting a rollicking creature feature.
