There is a small throw away scene featuring Tony Amendola as Father Perez, reprising his character from Annabelle. He provides most of the levity, both intentionally and unintentionally.Īs a part of the overall Conjuring Universe, this barely registers. Raymond Cruz (CSI Miami) plays Rafeal Olvera, a former priest who uses a combination of the occult and religion to help Anna and her family.

The movie relies completely on jump scares, without any of the tension and atmosphere that have made The Conjuring movies stand out. The entire movie is pretty much made up of scenes any horror fan is well-familiar with, having seen them often and, for the most part, done better in other movies.

Looking at The Curse of La Llorona strictly as a horror movie leaves the viewer looking for anything original. Chris has an experience with La Llorona at the scene and she follows them home. Patricia blames Anna and says it was done by La Llorona. Anna is called out in the middle of the night and has to bring Chris and Samantha with her. Patricia claims to be protecting them, and then the boys disappear that night only to be found drowned in a nearby river. Finding the boys locked up in a closet, they are removed from the home and placed in an orphanage. Anna is called out to investigate Patricia (Patricia Velasquez), a mother whose children have been truant. The movie then jumps ahead to 1973 where we meet Anna (Linda Cardellini), an overworked social worker who is also a recently widowed mom of two, Chris (Roman Christou) and Samantha (Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen). Her grief leads her to steal children from others in to replace her own. We learn later that her husband was unfaithful and in an act of revenge, she drowned his children. This soon transitions to one scenes of the mother drowning her children. In The Curse of La Llorona, the movie opens in 1673 Mexico with a family playing in an open field. Lamia then goes on to steal other women’s children. Many cultures have similar stories, and it has been a trope going back as far as Greek mythology with the story of Lamia, whose children with Zeus are murdered by Hera. La Llorona is an urban legend from Mexico about a “weeping woman.” This is not exclusive to Mexican lore. Unfortunately though, the film struggles on both levels. The Curse of La Llorona requires you to look at the movie on two different levels: 1) as a horror film in its own right, and 2) as an extension of the extended Conjuring Universe. “La Llorona” explores the Mexican legend of the Weeping Woman, but it’s far from one of the more inspired entries in the Conjuring universe.

The curse of la llorona review