One of the best-known Mexican legends, La Llorona gains its space in American cinema with Warner Bros' new horror bet: The Weeping Curse.
With several versions of his legend, The Crybaby she is known as a woman in a wedding dress who attracts residents of small Mexican villages with her crying. In its original version, the myth says that it was a married woman who mysteriously lost her husband when her son was 3 years old. She is forced to raise the child alone until she meets a beautiful farmer, whom she falls in love with, but who does not want to marry her because she has a child. In a moment of madness, she kills her son in the lake to try to go ahead with the wedding and when she reports this to the farmer, she receives the answer that he would never marry someone who has the courage to kill his own son. When she realizes what she did, she deeply regrets and starts to cry in the lake where the case occurred, eventually she dies of hunger and her wailing spirit begins to wander during the nights.
In the long version, the script decides to adapt the version that says Chorona killed her children out of revenge on her traitorous husband and when she realized what she did in a moment of fury, she kills herself and her spirit wanders after other children to drown and make them your new children.
The Weeping Curse it represents the Latin content of the legend very well, choosing not to Americanize the facts. Focused in Anna (Linda Cardellini) -a social worker who lost her husband and needs to balance her life taking care of her children and keeping her job-, who after working on a case haunted by Chorona, ends up being cursed and her children are chased by her.
Regarding the legend, the feature works very well. With a script that respects differences, takes the opportunity to make social and religious criticisms and tries to make a small innovation, the film manages to entertain and remain coherent. However, it is lost in its outcome. To explain the events, several characters are explored at the beginning of the plot, only to disappear in the third act and never be mentioned again, leaving the ending somewhat empty. As much as the script tries to innovate, delivering moments until well-founded, it still falls into illogical errors commonly seen in productions of this theme.
The direction of Michael Chaves seems to follow the model of James Wan and ends up falling into several clichés of horror films. Jump Scares in excess, loud and unnecessary noises and camera games that denounce others are constantly employed, disturbing the experience that a much simpler suspense could provide.
Even falling into some sameness, The Weeping Curse manages to maintain a climate of fear and it seems to be a big gamble for Warner. The company implies that it intends to continue with what was presented, uniting this film that looks like a totally isolated legend with the universe of Invocation of Evil, through Father Perez (Tony Amendola) who has participated in other Warren productions and references that show that everything happens in this universe.
Introducing the healer Rafael (Raymond Cruz), the feature seems to leave room for continuations with him. Charismatic and well fitted, the character stands out and can be a good choice for works that escape the cases of the Warren.
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