The new Mummy trailer looks wicked. But before anyone starts picturing sandstorms, ancient curses chasing action heroes, or a certain smirking adventurer swinging from a rope, let’s just make this clear.This Mummy movie cuts all ties with the Brendan Fraser era.. Neither is it the Tom Cruise reboot. This time round the movie comes from a different universe, with a different tone, and a different heartbeat.
“It’s very important you fully prepare yourself for what you are about to see,” a doctor tells the parents before they are reunited. “No sudden moves. No loud noises.”
Eight years, that’s how long this family has been sitting at a dinner table with one chair permanently empty. With birthdays that felt like memorials. Eight years of Cairo traffic moving on like nothing happened while they stayed frozen in the moment their daughter Katie vanished.
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Then the phone rings, and the news is that she’s been found—but not in the way you’d expect.
It turns out Katie spent the last eight years in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus, transforming into some kind of living, mummy-like creature.
The new trailer for The Mummy starts quietly, which is always scarier. Just a hospital hallway and some flickering lights. Then a doctor says the kind of thing that makes your stomach do hurdles: “It’s very important you fully prepare yourself for what you are about to see.”
We’ve all seen the “missing child returns” story before. But this version is something to behold. Katie has spent eight years, trapped inside a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus. When she finally comes out, she isn’t a kid anymore. Katie resembles a living relic, wearing skin that has seen too much history and eyes that appear way too old for her face.
The moment that actually gave me chills, though, was when she tells her grandmother, “Don’t worry, it’s fun to be dead.” She says it with this weird, cheerful energy that just feels wrong.
It’s clear Lee Cronin isn’t making a typical “run from the monster” flick. He did Evil Dead Rise and The Hole in the Ground, so he knows that the scariest things usually happen at home. This feels more like a story about grief and the messy reality of getting exactly what you prayed for, only to realise the person who came back isn’t yours anymore.
A strong ensemble anchors the film. Jack Reynor and Laia Costa play the parents, and you can see that specific brand of “trying to keep it together” panic in their eyes. It doesn’t feel theatrical or over-the-top; it feels like they’re actually mourning. Added to that we have May Calamawy, Natalie Grace and Veronica Falcón star in the New Line feature, which Cronin wrote and directed. Plus, having James Wan and Jason Blum producing means the polish is there, and Stephen McKeon’s score is already doing a lot of heavy lifting in the atmosphere department.
See the trailer below:
Forget the dusty pyramids and the campy action of the older movies. This one looks intimate and uncomfortable. It’s out April 17, and honestly? The real question isn’t whether Katie survived the tomb. It’s whether her family can survive her.
