The series with its American Horror Story-like structure will focus on a different tale or figure each season, the first of which, you’ve guessed it, will be about La Llorona. NBC, for example, recently announced that a new anthology series by Eva Longoria, “inspired by the rich world of Hispanic folklore and myth,” is in development. Naughty children are told, “Behave or La Llorona will get you!”Ī longstanding member of the Latino community, La Llorona has slowly - over the last 15 years - been making her way into the cultural mainstream. Her story is told and retold to entertain, frighten, and even discipline. Dressed in a tattered long gown with a wild mass of hair and razor-sharp fingernails, she is terrifying. La Llorona, the weeping woman, is a figure familiar to many Latinos. The other is a Mexican tradition rooted in Indigenous practices that involve formally remembering the dead through offerings of food, drink, and celebration. Though the ghost woman may never recover her own dead children, she will snatch other living ones to take their place, or so the story goes of La Llorona.Įach year around Halloween and Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), our thoughts turn to the undead and spirits walking among us. A ghostly woman in white who is said to have murdered her children, she is doomed to roam the earth, searching for their lost bodies. The movie is definitely competent in its door-slamming scares, and Cardellini is a pro, but there are very few surprises along the way.For more than 500 years, she has wandered, weeping and searching without rest. As it is, it’s just well-tooled product.Ī single mom (Linda Cardellini) is bothered by a centuries-old ghost who steals children - a bit of Mexican folklore known as La Llorona. I found myself wishing the movie would get cheesier, or invent more spooky folklore, or risk something beyond delivering conventional scares. But there’s almost nothing memorable about it. This is a slick film, and generally competent.
(There’s also a “Scooby-Doo” shout-out, because this movie knows its audience.) “Curse” gets some credibility from its decent cast, especially Linda Cardellini, an actress whose career should’ve been bigger than her “Scooby-Doo” films and her faithful-wife role in “Green Book.” Her emotional commitment here is a case study in professionalism. The movie definitely needs his demon-fighting toolkit, which includes eggs with black yolks and the crumbled bark of a Mexican tree - your basic Catholic/voodoo exorcism stuff. Jumping in for the thunder-and-lightning final act is a renegade ex-priest (Raymond Cruz), a kind of Catholic/voodoo exorcist.
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