Linda Cardellini

Raymond Cruz

Patricia Velásquez

Roman Christou

Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen

Marisol Ramirez

Sean Patrick Thomas

Tony Amendola

Oliver Alexander

Aiden Lewandowski

Irene Keng

DeLaRosa Rivera

Madeleine McGraw

Sophia Santi

Jethan Camarena

Fontana Sim

Scarlett Black

Don Roberson

Sierra Heuermann

Paul Rodríguez

John Marshall Jones

Ricardo Mamood-Vega

Andrew Tinpo Lee

Jeffrey Wetzel

Noelle Therese Mulligan

Marc Newland

Kelli Barksdale

Carrie Morrow

Linda Kessler

Dave McMoyler

Masanobu 'Tomi' Tomita

Walter Spencer

Gage Hubbard

Nicholas Kaat

Alyssa Hill

Pat O'Mara

Michael Burgess

Steven Cueva

Julie Pearce

Richard Brener

Amanda Hall

Olivia Summers

Ator Tamras

Craig Bauer

Philip Waley

Kurt Bryant

Lorena Talpan

Judah Getz

Traci E. Smithe

Pj Aguilera

Angelique Perez

Andrew Bock

Adam Jenkins

Renetta G. Amador

Scott Martin Gershin

Joe Barnett

Kevin Caira

Alice Rietveld

Tim Song Jones

Michael D. Wilhoit

Jesse Garcia

Michelle Pazer

Mike Horton

Rich Heichel

Nathan Dean Fetzer

Drew Rebelein

Belinda McCormick

Alain J. Romi

Bob Lacivita

Coleen Aiello

Monavie Tutop

Michael Owen

Tim McKeown

Joel Tokarsky

Stacee Hammond

Juliana Potter

Jozo Zovko

Oliver Mancebo

Jamie Hardt

Sean Burris

Annie Brandt

Dana Niu

Tina Peterson

James Ferrera

Pamela Scott-Farr

Brian Magrum

Peter Weidenfeller

Pamela Winn-Barnett

Tim Dodge

Eleanor Sabaduquia

Walter Volpatto

Aaron A. Goffman

Michael Chaves

James Wan

Mikki Daughtry

Tobias Iaconis

Joseph Bishara

Phil DeSanti

Peter Gvozdas

Megan Spatz

Melanie Jones

Rich Delia

Walter Hamada

Gary Dauberman

Emile Gladstone

Michelle Morrissey

Victoria Palmeri

Michael Clear

Dave Neustadter

Judson Scott

Horror

The Curse of La Llorona

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New Line Cinema

Emile Gladstone Productions

United States of America

English

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It’s not as bad as The Nun, let me write this straight away. If there’s one thing that this movie proves is Michael Chavestalented filmmaking skills, which offers hope for The Conjuring 3. Contrary to the other spin-off of the universe, The Curse of La Llorona toned down on the lazy exposition and elevated its scary sequences, simply by having a more capable director. Beautiful one-take scenes are spread throughout the runtime, which not only increase the suspense but prove that Chaves actually works hard to provide a terrifying environment.

He also delivers some effective and innovative jump scares, even though most of them still follow an annoyingly predictable timing. These are still heavy on the cliche of “character turning her head, big ugly monster face screams and the score goes from silence to screeching volume.” Scenes like these aren’t scary anymore and they feel dated, as well as the typical origin story. There’s nothing new or exciting in an “urban legend turned true.” Fortunately, the backstory is simple, it isn’t filled with explicit exposition every two minutes, and the short runtime helps the film to develop through a fast pacing. Sadly, it’s just another common horror screenplay that the writers took from the scripts cabinet.

Linda Cardellini gives a strong performance as the protagonist. Even though every character in this movie makes questionable decisions that lead to avoidable events (something inevitable in horror films), Anna is a compelling and courageous woman, who only wants to do what’s best for any children, not only their own. Raymond Cruz portrays Rafael, a priest who sort of almost is a deus ex machina. He barely has any kind of decent character development, but he works well enough as comic relief to lighten up an otherwise too dark tone. The kids are good, but Patricia Velasquez (Patricia Alvarez) is way over-the-top, which doesn’t help her already not-so-good script.

All in all, The Curse of La Llorona is … okay. It’s not near as horrible as The Nun, and honestly, that’s a good compliment for such a typical and cliche horror flick. Michael Chaves truly saves what could have been a disaster with another director. Wonderfully handled one-take sequences, which elevate the suspense levels, and he also produced some imaginative jump scares, even if most of them still lack actual scariness. Linda Cardellini is great as the lead, but every character is compelled to make dumb decisions to move the plot forward. Some characters needed more care in their scripts, and more focus on the story to tell instead of just creating scares after scares.

Close, but not close enough …

Rating: C+

Gimly

Where I'm from, this was marketed as _The Curse of the Weeping Woman_ 'cause I guess Australia can't be trusted with to pronounce a Spanish word. Similarly, I guess Warner Bros. can't be trusted to make a horror movie without cramming it into the bloated _Conjuring_ franchise.

I love seeing Linda Cardellini get work, but I don't know that a La Llorona movie was the best choice to put her in lead of, and I do know that **this** La Llorona movie was a bad choice, just like... Generally speaking. "Bad" might be too far. Bland? Old hat? Something along those lines might be a label that fits a little better. Definitely not the label "good" though.

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Acting was fine but the rest was one big cliche of the supernatural-horror genre with too many jump scares and the evil entity pretty much reminded me of the Nun, which makes sense since this is set in the Conjuring Universe.

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