But soon enough, Anna’s own kids are being terrorized by La Llorona, and our heroine’s colleagues are investigating her for child endangerment, in the kind of reversal that has become de rigueur for disbelieving genre protagonists. Anna is convinced that the burn marks on the woman’s children and the traumatized looks on their faces come from a far more mundane but real monster: an abusive parent. Our heroine, recently widowed social worker and single mom Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda Cardellini), doesn’t take the myth seriously when one of her beleaguered cases tells her about it. Weeping over her kids, she now returns as a terrifying, white-veiled apparition and tries to take other people’s children. La Llorona, or “the crying woman,” is the name given to the ghost of a mother who, in 1673, drowned her sons as a way of getting back at her philandering husband. Or to put it another way: Hooray, it’s scary! Seen in that light, The Curse of La Llorona, which expands this so-called cinematic universe with the introduction of a ghost from Mexican folklore, is a welcome new development. And there is no escape from the curse of La Llorona.The Conjuring may have been a masterpiece of modern horror in 2013, but the titles that have followed - the lucrative sequels, spinoffs, and sequels to spinoffs - have offered diminishing artistic returns with bland stories and cheaper frights. Because there is no peace for her anguish. Beware of her chilling wail…she will stop at nothing to lure you into the gloom. Their only hope to survive La Llorona’s deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. In 1970s Los Angeles, La Llorona is stalking the night-and the children. As the centuries have passed, her desire has grown more voracious…and her methods more terrifying. La Llorona creeps in the shadows and preys on the children, desperate to replace her own. They are lethal, and those who hear her death call in the night are doomed. In life, she drowned her children in a jealous rage, throwing herself in the churning river after them as she wept in pain.
The mere mention of her name has struck terror around the world for generations.
A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand.
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