Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.
The Catholic News Service classification is A-III - adults. The film contains occult themes, bloodless terror and a single crude term. In fact, they may be driven to mutter, “Oh my, Llorona!” It’s a dicey blend based on the filmmakers’ apparent desire to make the ever-tiresome distinction between being “spiritual” and being “religious.”Īdd Olvera’s insistence that, although he has turned his back on the church, he remains faithful to God, and Catholic moviegoers are bound to be left feeling uneasy - the messy, insubstantial nature of the loophole-ridden material notwithstanding. Olvera reluctantly agrees to try to rid Anna and the kids of their tormentor and proceeds to deploy a combination of Catholic and nonscriptural practices. There is, however, a spiritual freelancer who might be of service in the person of ex-priest-turned-shaman Rafael Olvera (Raymond Cruz).
Well, no, padre, not necessarily.Īsked to tackle Anna’s problem, Father Perez points out that the church’s bureaucracy would be slow to approve such aid. Watching it, Father Perez cheerfully announces that if the mourners believe in “that,” they also will believe in “this” - pan to the nearby facade of the church. The preparations aforementioned involved a “smudging,” a sort of spiritual fumigation practiced by some indigenous Americans. Father Perez, familiar to fans of the 2014 “Conjuring” iteration “Annabelle,” has some very questionable notions. And it turns out to be no coincidence that La Llorona next turns her sights on widowed Anna’s own two little ones, Chris (Roman Christou) and Samantha (Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen).Įventually convinced that they are being stalked by something otherworldly, Anna turns for help to Father Perez (Tony Amendola) a priest she first encounters while observing the preparations for the Alvarez children’s funeral from a distance. Unsurprisingly, Patricia blames their deaths on Anna. Despite being lodged for the night in the ostensible safety of a Catholic Charities facility, however, the lads meet a grim fate in short order. So, when social worker Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda Cardellini) makes an official visit to Patricia’s apartment and finds the kids locked in a closet, she ignores Patricia’s insistence that they are there for protection as well as her desperate pleas not to endanger them by letting them out. Her first contemporary targets, as the movie’s setting shifts to 1973 California, are Tomas (Aiden Lewandowski) and Carlos (Oliver Alexander), the two sons of Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velasquez), a woman whose past abuse or neglect of her boys has brought her to the attention of child services. (She serves, so Tobias Iaconis and Mikki Daughtry’s script later explains, as a distaff boogey man with which to threaten wayward muchachos and muchachas.) Director Michael Chaves’ often-effective addition to the universe of the “Conjuring” franchise elicits its fair share of starts.īut, while the usual red-flag items are mostly absent, an attempt to blur the lines between Catholicism and superstition puts his film beyond the reach of all but the best-catechized teens.Īs the opening sequence shows us, the titular wraith (Marisol Ramirez), a legendary figure in Mexican folklore, is a weeping woman who killed her own children back in the 17th century and who now preys on those of others. And there is no escape from the curse of La Llorona.NEW YORK (CNS) - “The Curse of La Llorona” (Warner Bros.) constitutes an intense but problematic horror story. Because there is no peace for her anguish. Beware of her chilling wail…she will stop at nothing to lure you into the gloom. Their only hope to survive La Llorona’s deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. In 1970s Los Angeles, La Llorona is stalking the night-and the children.
As the centuries have passed, her desire has grown more voracious…and her methods more terrifying. La Llorona creeps in the shadows and preys on the children, desperate to replace her own. They are lethal, and those who hear her death call in the night are doomed. In life, she drowned her children in a jealous rage, throwing herself in the churning river after them as she wept in pain. The mere mention of her name has struck terror around the world for generations. A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand.
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