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. NEW YORK (CNS) - "The Curse of La Llorona" (Warner Bros.) constitutes an intense but problematic horror story.
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