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The Curse of La Llorona Review

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4.4640 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week we saw The Curse of La Llorona and wow, what a disappointment. This is the only ghost who is 100% kept out by shutting the door or window. This movie could have been so much more than it ended up being, which is just another low effort, jumpscare factory. Even the jumpscares were boring and predictable. The Curse of La Llorona just wants to take your money and give you next to nothing for entertainment value. I don’t know a lot about Mexican folklore, but I don’t think that this does the actual story any justice at all. The Curse of La Llorona Synopsis The Curse of La Llorona is directed by Michael Chaves and follows a family of three who recently lost their father, who was a cop. Anna (Linda Cardellini) is the mom of Chris (Roman Christou) and Samantha (Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen). Anna is also a social worker who works for CPS in LA, and at some point, early in the movie, she receives a tip that one of her cases is being handed over to her co-worker because she is too overburdened by single-motherhood. She fights her boss for the right to check on Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velasquez) and ends up with more than she bargained for. The Curse of La Llorona Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojuqj8_wWo8 Through a series of boring events, Anna releases Patricia’s kids from a closet that was protecting them and the kids are gobbled up by a deadish bride called La Llorona. Patricia seeks vengeance on her caseworker, Anna, and prays to La Llorona that she take Anna’s kids and return her own. What follows is a predictable and slow jumpscare movie that failed to make me care about anyone at all. I would have been just as happy had La Llorona eaten the whole family. The Curse of La Llorona Score 4/10 The Curse of La LlaronaPre-order the Blu-Ray for your collectionPre-Order on Amazon The Curse of La Llorona Legend Facts After doing some reading and checking out the Wikipedia article, I have compiled the basics of the La Llorona Legend. The Curse of La Llorona starts in 1673. The folklore for the real story begins with a beautiful but poor woman named Maria. Maria catches the eye of a wealthy man who decides to marry her, much to her chagrin, and they build a life together, complete with two kids. As the man works in many faraway lands, he frequently leaves for work, and each time that he does, he becomes less interested in Maria. Image taken from this blog. Finally, one day he returns with a new wife and Maria is so distraught that she takes her kids down to the river and drowns them to spite her husband. She realizes what she did, and drowns herself. Upon trying to get into heaven, she is told that she can’t get in until she finds her children and brings them with her. Check Out Our Review of a Legit Movie, Terrified https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2019/03/20/terrified-aterrados-movie-review/ La Llorona is the ghost or spirit of this sad, crying woman, who hangs out near rivers looking for her kids. She frequently mistakes other kids for her own and drowns them upon realizing that they aren’t the right ones, which seems extreme. This is a pretty compelling folk tale that has been passed down through many generations of Mexicans, to the point that I have found lots of interesting comments about how people’s grandmothers would warn them about going near the water for fear of being caught by La Llorona. The Second Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGUiHfX1qpk This is a great way to get your kids to respect the power of rivers and bodies of water, by scaring the shit out of them. Among her wails, she is noted as crying "¡Ay, mi hijos!" which translates to "Oh, my children!" or "Oh, my sons!" If you hear her crying, you are probably marked for death. The Curse of La Llorona Spoilers The movie starts in earnest in the 1970s in LA. Anna is a caseworker and takes it upon herself to visit Patricia Alvarez,

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