Taglines: She wants your children.
When Anna Garcia, a social worker and widow raising her two kids in 1973 Los Angeles, is called to check in on one of her cases, she finds signs of foul play. As she digs deeper, she finds striking similarities between the case and the terrifying supernatural occurrences haunting her family. Enlisting the help of a local faith healer, she discovers that La Llorona has latched herself onto Anna and will stop at nothing to take her children.
La Llorona, who is also known as the Weeping Woman is a female ghost in Latin American folklore who lost her children and causes misfortune to those nearby. As she searches for them, she takes other lost children, making them her own. Anna turns to mysticism with the help of a disillusioned priest to fight the evil entity.
The Curse of La Llorona (also known as The Curse of the Weeping Woman in some markets) is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. It is the sixth installment in the Conjuring Universe franchise. Based on the Latin American folklore of La Llorona, the film stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, and Patricia Velásquez, and follows a mother in 1973 Los Angeles who must save her children from a malevolent spirit who is trying to steal them. The film was produced by James Wan through his Atomic Monster Productions banner.
The Curse of La Llorona premiered at South by Southwest on March 15, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on April 19, 2019. It received mixed reviews, with criticism aimed at its reliance on jump scares, and performed well at the box office, grossing $123 million worldwide against a budget of $9 million.
About the Story
In 1673 Mexico, a family plays in a field, and the youngest son gives his mother a necklace. The boy later finds his mother violently drowning his brother in a stream. Horrified, he runs, but his mother catches him and drowns him, too.
300 years later, in 1973, Los Angeles, caseworker Anna Tate-Garcia investigates the truancy of client Patricia Alvarez’s two children. Arriving at Patricia’s house for a welfare check, she finds the children locked behind a door. Patricia attacks her and is taken away by the police. Patricia’s sons, Carlos and Tomas, tell Anna to keep them in the room, so they are protected. Ignoring their warnings, she takes them to the child-services shelter. There, Tomas sleepwalks, and Carlos follows him until both boys see a woman in a white dress who attacks them.
The boys are found drowned in a river, and Anna is called out to the scene. She brings her own children, Chris and Sam, and they stay in the car while she investigates. She hears Patricia, accused of her sons’ murders, screaming that it was Anna’s fault for taking her sons and that Patricia had tried to stop the malevolent force of “La Llorona.”
Chris leaves the car out of curiosity and encounters La Llorona (The Weeping Woman), who seizes his wrist and leaves burns. The next day, La Llorona also grabs Sam and leaves identical burn marks. Anna interviews Patricia, who has an alibi for the time of her sons’ deaths. Patricia reveals that in her hatred for Anna, she prayed to La Llorona to bring her own boys back and take Anna’s children instead. Anna encounters La Llorona when the spirit attempts to drown Sam in the bathtub.
The ghost leaves burn marks on Anna’s arm too. Anna seeks help from Father Perez, who relates the case to his previous experiences with a haunted porcelain doll. Perez tells Anna about former priest Rafael Olvera, who can help them. Rafael arrives at Anna’s house, setting up items for protection. In the night, La Llorona repeatedly attacks them and attempts to drown Anna and Sam in the pool. Anna pulls off La Llorona’s necklace in the struggle.
The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
Directed by: Michael Chaves
Starring: Linda Cardellini, Patricia Velasquez, Raymond Cruz, Marisol Ramirez, Tony Amendola, Madeleine McGraw, Irene Keng, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Sophia Santi, Oliver Alexander
Screenplay by: Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis
Production Design by: Melanie Jones
Cinematography by: Michael Burgess
Film Editing by: Peter Gvozdas
Costume Design by: Megan Spatz
Set Decoration by: Sandra Skora
Art Direction by: Alyssa Hill
Music by: Joseph Bishara
MPAA Rating: R for violence and terror.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: April 19, 2019
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