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. ![]() ![]() 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.
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