Everything about this movie plays, looks and sounds like dozens of other movies you’ve seen before La Llorona could be replaced with any other malevolent spirit, and not much else would have to be changed. The more pressing issue is that THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA takes a folk tale rife with culturally rich and specifically scary possibilities and flattens it out into a thoroughly by-the-numbers haunting flick.
Were the film’s heroine Latinx, these lengthy dollops of exposition might seem a lot more contrived. of that legend to Anna (Linda Cardellini), and thus the audience. Written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias IaconisĬonsidering the diversification of genre cinema lately, and that THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA is based on an enduring Mexican legend, why is its heroine white? I’d say it has less to do with color-insensitive casting and more because it allows Latin American supporting characters to describe the full backstory and m.o. Starring Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz and Patricia Velasquez
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