Not to worry: here come the priests, including “unorthodox” curandero Rafael (Breaking Bad’s Raymond Cruz) who comes to the family home with powders, magical goop and bone-dry humour. Linda Cardellini (who scored back-to-back box-office toppers when Avengers: Endgame dislodged The Curse of La Llorona from the top of the US chart) stars as social worker Anna Tate-Garcia, a widow mourning the death of her Latino police officer husband and struggling to juggle her work and motherhood.Īfter a truancy case involving Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velásquez) goes horribly wrong, Anna unwittingly unleashes the mythological Mexican spook upon her own kids, Samantha (Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen) and Chris (Roman Christou). Their only hope to survive may be a former priests mystic practices. She regrets her actions immediately and thus continues to roam the earth seeking other children to take their place for centuries, or, more accurately, until the Scooby-Doo era.įast forward to 1973 and Scooby-Doo is on primetime. Ignoring the warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her small kids are soon terrorized by La Llorona. This efficient, routine haunting film introduces its titular wraith in a brief 17th-century prologue in which a wronged wife drowns her children to punish her errant husband.
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