The Curse of the Weeping Woman (a.k.a. The Curse of La Llorona in the US) is the first feature from director Michael Chaves, and is the sixth entry in the Conjuring Universe.James Wan’s The Conjuring was a surprisingly decent horror movie that cropped up back in 2013 to deliver some solid scares and genuine creeps, before descending into a bit of a stock monster runaround. It had some nicely effective sequences early on, and if not quite up to the hype it received, was nevertheless pretty good value for a mainstream MA15 horror flick. And lo, it spawned the inevitable sequel and several spinoffs (the Annabelle movies and The Nun, for those of you keeping track).
Which brings us to The Curse of the Weeping Woman. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, recently widowed Anna (Linda Cardellini) is trying to balance the pressures of raising her two children with the responsibilities of her job as a social worker. When a case she is working on ends in tragedy, Anna encounters the legend of La Llorona, a weeping ghost of Mexican folklore who kills children. La Llorona is a spectral apparition capable of interacting with the living world in a number of rather nasty ways. Naturally, the spook becomes attached to the kids and Anna must enlist the help of rogue ex-priest Rafael (Raymond Cruz) to stop the ghostly weeping woman.
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IMDB: The Curse Of La Llorona
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