![]() ![]() (A supporting character from that film, Father Perez, pops up here to provide the bare minimum of connective narrative tissue between the films.) A solid Linda Cardellini anchors the proceedings as Anna Tate-Garcia, a recently widowed social worker whose tragic intervention in the child welfare of the sons of the disturbed Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velasquez) unleashes the titular spirit after Anna’s own children. ![]() We’ve seen many of this film’s supernatural scenarios before - in this franchise and in bogeyman/haunting films in general - but in the end The Curse of La Llorona ekes by due to its occasional playfulness and the sympathy engendered by its main family.Īfter a brief but brutal prologue set in 1673 Mexico - where we see how “The Weeping Woman” of Latin American folklore came to be by drowning her own children in a jealous rage, thus cursing herself to roam forever as a specter searching for other kids to kill - the film resumes in Los Angeles 1973, a period which Conjuring-verse fans will know is not long after the events of the LA-based Annabelle. ![]() The Curse of La Llorona is set on the outskirts of the blockbuster Conjuring franchise, which may lend it a mainstream commercial appeal but also a by-now deadened familiarity thanks to the series’ well-worn formula. ![]()
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