Director: Lee Cronin
Cast: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, Shylo Molina
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a 2026 American-Irish horror film directed by Lee Cronin, running 133 minutes and starring Jack Reynor and Laia Costa. A supernatural thriller built around family trauma, ancient evil, and the price of a reunion that should never have happened.
What is Lee Cronin's The Mummy about?
When a journalist's young daughter vanishes into the desert without leaving a single clue behind, the family splinters under grief and unanswered questions. Eight years pass. Then, without explanation, the girl comes back — alive, apparently unharmed. What follows is not the relief the broken family had prayed for. Something has returned alongside her, something older and hungrier than anything they are equipped to face. As the parents scramble to understand what their daughter has become, the horror steadily outgrows the domestic space it first inhabits, escalating from quiet dread into something far darker. The film withholds its answers carefully, letting atmosphere and mounting unease do the heavy lifting before the full shape of the nightmare reveals itself.
Cast & crew
Director Lee Cronin previously made his mark in elevated genre cinema, bringing a considered, atmospheric approach to horror. Jack Reynor leads as the father navigating the impossible situation, with Laia Costa as the mother anchoring the emotional core. The supporting cast includes May Calamawy, Veronica Falcón, Natalie Grace, Shylo Molina, Billie Roy, and Hayat Kamille, lending the ensemble a layered, international texture that deepens the film's unsettling reach.
Context & significance
Horror has long been a genre where diaspora audiences find unexpected resonance — stories of displacement, lost children, and fractured families carry a particular weight for those who have navigated upheaval themselves. Lee Cronin's The Mummy taps into that vein with a premise centered on disappearance, return, and the terror of something familiar becoming unrecognizable. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, the themes of a family torn apart and reunited under wrong circumstances speak past genre convention into something genuinely felt. The film is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing as well as Persian subtitles, so viewers can experience it in whichever mode suits them best.
Where & how to watch
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is available now on K-Time with full Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch directly on the web, on your television, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Cancel your K-Time subscription anytime.