Review of The Curse of La Llorona (2019) by Shaneb — 01 May 2019

-I think this is just a movie to hold us over until the new Annabelle comes out, but:

The good: semi fresh folk lore type story(only because it’s of a Mexican origin, not many of those), still... not much diff than any other evil spirit lady that takes kids type of movie.

There was a verrry quick nod to the Annabelle franchise in the movie...

The bad: like I mentioned above, it’s your run of the mill , evil spirit lady in a dress coming for a family/single parents kids. I don’t know how connected this movie is to the Annabelle/conjuring/insidious universe aside from the 5 seconds of showing Annabel and the priest talking about getting help from “the church” (basically referring to the husband and wife team from the conjuring) but I guess we’ll see if they mention this “tale” in the new Annabelle. Don’t know if they can, this was set in the 70s and I THINK the new Annabelle is set in present day, not sure, doesn’t really matter... aaaaanywaay, 95% of all the times La Llorona appears on screen it’s a quick jump scare situation, real quick they never really keep going with the “terror” they had like multiple quick jump scares in a row, instead of just playing it all out. Kinda frustrating, but I guess they had to create as much tension as they could since the story isn’t that unique (most of the movie is cliche anyway).

Overall: all the kids were pretty good actors. The adults were standard as well. I saw this movie on a Thursday at 3pm, and this is the exact type of movie you’d watch at that time. It’s, just straight up: a movie that has things you’ve seen before, but this time the characters aren’t white.