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Lee Cronin's The Mummy, which has nothing to do with the franchise, opens with the parents
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While living in Cairo, Charlie and Larissa, Jack Renoir and Lailla cost his eight-year-old
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daughter, Katie, Natalie Grace, is abducted from their backyard.
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Devastated, they eventually returned to Albuquerque and tried to rebuild their lives with their
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two remaining children.
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Eight years later, the U.S. Embassy calls, Katie has been found alive.
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Their joy evaporates when they learn she was discovered inside a sarcophagus, recovered
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after a plane crash.
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She severely malnourished, traumatized, and covered in strange inscriptions carved into
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A doctor insists she disnates love, patience, and time.
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Advice that feels wildly optimistic given the hints of supernatural possession.
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From here, the movie becomes the exorcist meets the Omen, with the dash of Chucky, Megan,
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and the Shining Thronin.
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The film briefly dips into ancient Egyptian lore, revealing that the markings relate
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to Nazmaranian, a demon said to destroy families, unless contained, through ritual mummification.
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Once those inscriptions begin to fade, Nazmaranian grows stronger, and the body count rises.
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This is the film's big inflection point, unleashing the wave of oversized insects, gruesome
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transformations, and blood and guts oozing from every orifice.
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Predictably, the movie leans on gooey over the top gore, and the family being terrorized
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in their creaky old house.
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Charlie, desperate for answers, teams up with former Ricky Detective, Dalia Zaki, May Kalamawi,
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whose involvement provides the story's only real threat of continuity.
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As Katie's presence intensifies, the family begins to unravel, and breaking the magician's
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spell becomes the only way out, though not without consequences.
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The performances are mostly as bland as watching newbies on CSI, with two exceptions, Veronica
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Falcon, as Katie's grandmother, and young Billy Roy, as Maud, Katie's youngest sister,
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who gives a surprisingly fierce, Linda Blair adjacent turn.
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Horror and fantasy fans may enjoy the jump scares, the campy chaos in the moments that make
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you laugh right after you flinch.
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For KSQD's film gang, this is Susan Lovegren.
