Written And Directed by Lee Cronin
Katie: "Don't worry, grandma, it's fun to be dead!"
Ah, it was time to check out this take. It's not really part of the Universal Monsters but more of a reimagined version with an even heavier focus on a father and daughter. Of course that's the biggest strength of the film.
The father being a TV reporter named Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor). He's living in Cairo with his pregnant wife, Larissa (Laia Costa) and their children, Katie (Natalie Grace/Emily Mitchell) and Sebastián (Shylo Molina/Dean Allen Williams). Theyre a happy family until they weren't.
Early in the movie, Katie encountered a creepy woman known as the Magician (Hayat Kamille). She was the mother of Katie's friend, Layla (May Elghety/Aisha Laouini). She also abducted Katie and it was years later before Charlie and Larissa were reunited with their daughter.
Katie didn't exactly return as the same child she was beforehand. She was using Morse Code to reveal stuff about her friend Layla and her abduction and it turned out that Katie and her younger sister Maud (Billie Roy) were both possessed and had no problem disrupting a funeral among other destructive things that happened throughout the film.
I got to be honest. While there's a few decent jumpscares in places, I found myself struggling to keep with this movie. There's a fair bit to try and engage with and it's not very engaging to watch. Characters die, get possessed and so on. It's been done better in other movies.
- May Calamawy had a decent supporting role as Detective Dalia Zaki.
- Nasmaranian was the entity possessing most of the characters in the movie.
- Standout music: Sharmoofer's Khamsa Santy.
- Chronology: Takes in Aswan, Cairo and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I wanted to like Lee Cronin's The Mummy but I genuinely struggled to engage with it. It's a bit too long, plodding and even the few decent jumpscares weren't enough to save it. I wouldn't recommend it.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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