When Anna visits the home of one of her cases, Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velasquez), and finds Patricia’s children locked up in a closet with burn scars on their arms, she has no choice but to take them in despite the protests from both the mother and the boys that “she’ll get them.” But the film itself (Michael Chaves’ feature debut, produced by literal horror movie master James Wan) takes place in the ’70s, following social worker Anna (Linda Cardellini) and her two children. This is the driving force in “The Curse of La Llorona,” which premiered at South by Southwest in March and hits theaters this weekend. Since then, she wanders around crying, looking for them, and often tormenting those - especially the children - who hear her. The tale of La Llorona, or “the weeping woman,” is a myth in Latin American culture about the ghost of a woman who drowned her children in the river.
After all, the story is practically horror movie gold.
It’s surprising there hasn’t already been a film about a folktale as old and familiar and as creepy as La Llorona.
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