It needs a new roll of toilet paper.

No, new “Mummy” movie is not an adventure film like the Brendan Fraser movies nor is it a comedy like Abbot and Costello meet the Mummy. It’s the latest horror film from Lee Cronin, who gave us the brilliant “Evil Dead Rise,” and crosses between “The Exorcist” and “Seven.”

I have to admit that it’s not as irritatingly bad as the Tom Cruise movie from 2017 nor is it as poorly visualized as “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.” But I think we can agree the “Revenge of the Mummy” ride at Universal Studios has more adventure and scares than this new version. And Warner Bros. and New Line Cinemas are the distributors.

Jack Reynor plays a journalist and father named Charlie Cannon, who is living in Cairo with his pregnant wife Larissa (Laia Costa) and two kids: Katie (Emily Mitchell and later Natalie Grace) and Sebastian (Dean Allen Williams and later Shylo Molina. Katie takes candy from the creepy next door neighbor, a magician of sorts (Hayat Kamille), and she’s then given an apple that releases a scarab in her mouth and taken away. She and her abductor disappear in a sandstorm.

Eight years later, we find the family and their cute new daughter Maude (Billie Roy) and sassy and religious grandmother (Veronica Falcon) living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And they all receive the news from the U.S. Embassy that Katie (has been found alive, but not the same. You know. The kind when she wakes up from a sarcophagus which survives from a plane crash, and is placed in a hospital where she looks possessed. Her skin looks dry and burnt, she has marks on her arms, she wheezes, she’s bound to a wheelchair, and soon attacks the grandma and eats a scorpion. I think we can agree that this Katie might be the new star of “The Exorcist.” Although I don’t recall Regan getting a shot.

It’s often suggested that when evil clones or possessed people cause demonic problems, that they have to make the stupid choice of taking care of them. In “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,” Charlie suggests Katie should be temporarily placed in a facility, but Larissa says “She’s staying here. She’s been gone long enough.” Either she wants to be her mother for as long as she can or she doesn’t watch a lot of horror movies. You decide. But either way, i don’t think anybody is safe.

I like when the possessed Katie clicks her teeth and how Charlie knows it’s Morse code. She even had a Girl Scout guide book on the code, which soon leads to a name. And I did like the supporting characters like the detective Dalia (May Calamawy) and college professor Bixler (Mark Mitchinson), as well as some impressive set pieces like some kind of a miniature pyramid. And the photography by Dave Garbett matches the creepy mood in warm and gritty colors.

But the problem with this “Mummy” is that it seems arbitrary and lackluster. It thinks it’s funny when the youngest daughter has to curse and when she becomes possessed, she pulls out her loose tooth and spits blood on offerings. And I think we’ve seen this kind of exorcist movie before, and we basically know the stakes.

The movie runs for a little over 2 hours, which requires us to deal with the formalities of a mummified person being brought back into society. And when the parents finally see what happened to Katie, their reactions are more compelling than anything their possessed child engages in. Cronin has proven himself to be worthy of horror movies, but his latest entry is a disappointment wrapped in not enough toilet paper. It can’t even spare a square.