#La Llorona 2019

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La Llorona (2019) dir. Jayro Bustamante “Alma is crying for her children. She told me she's known Grandpa for a long time. She asked me not to drown.”

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LA LLORONA (2019)

Not to be confused with The Curse of La Llorona which came out the same year, La Llorona or The Weeping Woman is a Guatemalan horror film. This is a very slow paced political drama that also happens to be a horror movie on the side. I usually enjoy foreign films and the eerie feeling they give off but I mostly just found this to be more sad than scary (as the name would imply it isn’t a happy film, but still). 

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(Trigger Warning Rape Mention, Children Dying, Guerilla Warfare)

A native woman lays out in excruciating detail what the guerillas did to her and her people (to the children and women especially), it was a heartbreaking scene, honestly. It felt very real (because in some places it is real) so it was very sobering. After being found guilty of genocide the grandfather fakes a medical incident but then in the hospital can be seen smoking and getting poured a drink from a flask so clearly it isn’t that serious. You feel no sympathy for his character so you don’t care that he is being haunted or hunted or having all those protesters outside his door.

Nothing creepy starts happening until over 30 minutes in and even then it isn’t haunted behavior. (I guess the weeping at the top of the film was a bit suspicious but it was so quiet I needed to watch the scene again to pick up on it) You basically watch a slow paced political drama for a half hour and then the weird maid comes in and even then she isn’t that weird, just a little spooky. 45 minutes in and the creepiest thing we see is grandpa boner. One hour in and still no big scares, no big villain (other than the grandfather). I am BORED.

This is just a movie about one old man's terrible choices and how they are coming back to bite him in the ass slowly but surely. His wife has a nightmare where she is one of his victims, she just doesn’t know it yet. I feel very little sympathy for his family members except his granddaughter who is clearly innocent in all this, but the maid is protecting her like she couldn’t protect her own children, so I don’t feel like the granddaughter is under any threat.

The wrap up is basically this: asshole grandpa leads his people in Guerilla warfare and genocide and he thinks there will be no consequences. Turns out, the ghost of a woman whose kids he drowned has come back to haunt him and his family but mostly just him. She pranks him a bit before getting his own wife to murder him by letting her see the vision of what he had done to the natives. Very underwhelming, and I was actually anticipating some good creeps but just having a lady with long hair that’s wet standing around isn’t that scary. It was basically a sobering political documentary that I never intended to watch. I suppose with a title like “The Weeping Woman” I should have assumed there would be some sadness but good grief was this a somber ride. Grandpa War-machine deserved death and worse, our movie ends with the ghosts having moved on to the next in the pecking order for their revenge, they won’t be satiated until all the scumbags who murdered their children in cold blood are dead.

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La Llorona (2019) dir. Jayro Bustamante

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Let me know what you think!

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seated for The Curse of La Llorona, and the opening was fine, and the oner through the house was fun, and i was about to praise it, and then we cut to the office scene, and the dialogue is so atrocious, i cannot find myself in good conscience to praise the oner. who the fuck wrote this? what the hell is this dialogue? like i knew it was gonna be bad from what little i remembered, but oh my god.

honestly, a lot of this movie is a blur even from my first watch, like i mostly just remember the priest character existing weirdly, and like some shot of a fence at night?? early on in the first act, i think, and really that's all i remember, i do not even remember anything Linda Cardellini does in this. because the rest was just was not interesting or memorable and i wish i could skip it and watch Annabelle Comes Home which i actually remember really fucking enjoying, but this was easy to find (and Michael Chaves directed the two other movies after Annabelle Comes Home in this universe so i wanna be familiar with his related work) so my brain is forcing me to watch it.

anyway. truly terrible dialogue in the office scene, like wow that is some clunky-ass exposition, but i am holding out hope that is one isolated scene and not the rest of the movie, because i completely turned around on The Nun, so here's to hoping this ends up the same, because i would like to have fun with a movie tonight. if not, i will have to just watch something else after this, because i plan to have fun. one way or another.

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The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

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THE HAUNTING OF LA LLORONA Reviews - free on Plex, Roku, Tubi, YouTube

The Haunting of La Llorona is a 2019 supernatural horror film directed by Dennis Devine (Things and three sequels; Alice in Murderland; Vampires of Sorority Row, Don’t Look in the Cellar) from a screenplay by Geno McGahee (Sickle; Rise of the Scarecrows: Hell on Earth; Satanic Meat Cleaver Massacre; et al). The CineRidge Entertainment-Sterling Entertainment production stars Kaylin Zeren, Diana…

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Jayro Bustamante's "La Llorona" August 30, 2019.

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LR BUS LO916 | 70 Las bahías (Cartoon network)

Antes de la micro 42 (PPU: HDCC31) que fue quemada en 2019 es por culpa de la llorona, en los cerros de talcahuano causan miedo, y temor. Pero ahora se compró otra LR que fue Trinidad y campanil (PPU: HGRP70) como micro 42 para reemplazar a la quemada máquina.

Antes y después de la 42 (HDCC31) quemada en las bahías. Desde 2019 (2010s)

Ahora es la nueva 42 (HGRP70)

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The Conjuring Movies in Chronological Order 🎥

If you're looking to watch all the movies in theatrical release order, the list is below:

The Conjuring (2013)

Annabelle (2014)

The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Annabelle: Creation (2017)

The Nun (2018)

The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The Nun 2 (2023)

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La llorona, 2019

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La Llorona (2019) dir. Jayro Bustamante

Cinematography by Nicolás Wong

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yeah, no, it was not very good. i wasn't wrong about it being shit the first time i saw it.

My ★½ review of The Curse of La Llorona on Letterboxd

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SUMMARY: A social worker dealing with the disappearance of two children fears for her own family after beginning the investigation.

Mod Z’s biggest flex is that their first horror movie, that he knows of, was produced by James Wan, even if it was pretty stupid.