Jacked-Up Trailer for LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY Unleashes an Evil Dead-Style Nightmare

Warner Bros. and Blumhouse have dropped the full trailer for Lee Cronin's The Mummy, and this isn’t your grandpa’s bandaged monster movie. Forget the swashbuckling charm of the Brendan Fraser era. This one looks like it crawled straight out of a grave with something to prove.

Director Lee Cronin has stamped his name right on the titles, and after watching this trailer, you can see why. This isn’t a dusty adventure flick. It’s a straight-up horror story that blends supernatural dread with gnarly, Evil Dead-style carnage.

The story centers on a journalist’s young daughter who vanishes into the desert without a trace. Eight years pass. The family is shattered. Then she comes back.

And she isn’t the same.

Here’s the official synopsis: "What happened to Katie?" Some things are meant to stay buried. Hot off the record-setting resurrection of Evil Dead Rise, writer & director Lee Cronin turns to one of the most iconic horror stories of all time with an audacious and twisted retelling: The Mummy.

“The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

That “joyful reunion” part? Yeah, about that. The trailer makes it clear that Katie hasn’t simply survived. She’s something ancient. Something wrong. Something wrapped in desert rot and supernatural fury.

This feels less like the classic Universal monster template and more like Pet Sematary filtered through Cronin’s love of relentless horror. If you saw Evil Dead Rise, you know he doesn’t pull punches.

The footage here cranks up the dread and the gore far beyond the teaser, with disturbing imagery, screaming family confrontations, and some seriously unsettling mummy horror that leans fully into nightmare territory.

The cast includes Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, Verónica Falcón, and Emily Mitchell. Calamawy in particular adds an intriguing presence to the ensemble, and it’ll be interesting to see how each character unravels as the horror escalates inside what should have been a healing family reunion.

Cronin, who previously directed The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise, writes and directs this twisted reimagining. The film is produced by James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville, bringing together some serious horror firepower under the Blumhouse banner.

There’s always risk when revisiting a property like The Mummy, especially one tied so closely to adventure nostalgia. But Lee Cronin's The Mummy isn’t chasing that tone. It looks like it’s digging up something much darker. The trailer is packed with disturbing visuals and emotional trauma, pushing this story into uncomfortable territory.

The real question is whether it’ll stick the landing. The ingredients are there. Cronin has proven he can handle chaotic, brutal horror. Blumhouse knows how to market and deliver genre hits. Now it comes down to execution.

We won’t have to wait long to find out. Lee Cronin's The Mummy hits theaters nationwide on April 17, 2026.