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Movies that feel like Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026)

If you loved Lee Cronin's The Mummy, the closest films we have are Hellhole (2022), The Wailing (2016) and Noroi: The Curse (2005). All three share Lee Cronin's The Mummy's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 45% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lee Cronindreadunsettlingtwisty
Stream it:HBO Max
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If Lee Cronin's The Mummy hit the spot, these will too

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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%5.8horror · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: the investigation and possession

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%7.4horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: curse

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Both are working the same pair: journalist, disappearance

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Lee Cronin's The Mummy does

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%7.1horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%6.2horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%6.9mystery · horror · thriller

Common ground: ritual

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: supernatural

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Weapons
2025 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 93%7.4horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: ritual

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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Fear Street: 1994
2021 · dir. Leigh Janiak
🍅 84%6.2horror · mystery · drama

The same preoccupation in both: curse

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%6.5horror · thriller

Lee Cronin directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the twists Lee Cronin's The Mummy is built on

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 68%5.8horror · mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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Paranormal Activity 2
2010 · dir. Tod Williams
🍅 58%5.7horror · mystery

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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