The Curse of La Llorona

Curse Of La Llorona is more parody than expansion of the Conjuring universe

2193d ago

The predatory bogeywoman of Mexican legend haunts 1970s Los Angeles in Michael Chaves’ efficiently formulaic shocker.

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The Curse of La Llorona is middling B-movie schlock that goes for the low-hanging fruit: sequences you know will end with some kind of jump, bump or scream, and jokes that cut the tension and indicate everyone here knows what's up.

2193d ago

The Curse of La Llorona tries to replicate the best of the Conjurverse but follows the most basic horror blueprints and without particular excitement.

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I may not have grown up with the legend of La Llorona, but I grew up with a healthy respect for superstitions and things that cannot be explained.

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Linda Cardellini plays a mother whose kids are stalked by a Mexican ghost in Michael Chaves' horror flick.

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That’s all The Curse of La Llorona is: a cheap attempt to re-create the spark that has made the Conjuring franchise so lucrative. It’s pathetic, and both horror fans and the Latinx community deserve more respect than this lazy attempt at a cash grab. A decent performance from Linda Cardellini doesn’t save a film loaded with predictable jump scares and weak mythos building.

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This weak spin-off of the ‘Conjuring’ series will haunt you for all the wrong reasons

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You’d think a Mexican myth about a murderous, crying ghost-bride would be a horror slam dunk, but debut feature director Michael Chaves is not big on suspense building. Thus within the first 10 minutes of “The Curse of La Llorona,” the apparition (Marisol Ramirez) has screamed in all of our faces, in extreme close-up.

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With The Curse of La Llorona, the Conjuring universe has damned itself to an eternal cycle of rinse and repeat.

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