The Legend of La Llorona

The Legend of La Llorona

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  • Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Horror
  • Release Date: 2011-10-21
  • Runtime: 75 minutes
  • : 7.739
  • Production Company: Ánima Estudios
  • Production Country: Mexico
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7.739/10
7.739
From 280 Ratings

Description

Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.

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Reviews

  • r96sk

    6
    By r96sk
    'La Llorona' is too slow paced for my liking, it most certainly isn't a bad film though. I just couldn't lock on to what I was watching, every now and then it would hook me in but then I mostly detached again not long later. That's a shame, because there is goodness in this. It's more political drama than horror, not that the latter element is absent but I was anticipating more supernatural to this. That's mostly on me admittedly, probably not helped by the fact that I saw 'The Curse of La Llorona' (also 2019, curiously) last month; that is a more typical horror flick, which I (unlike most) liked fwiw. No-one truly stands out from the cast, though Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic, María Mercedes Coroy and Julio Díaz do warrant fair praise. If we're talking merit, those behind the actors offscreen would deserve just as much as those front and centre; it is a well shot flick. for example. Not bad, just not good. In my eyes, of course.

  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    Set as Guatemala emerges from a period of military dictatorship, we are taken to the palatial home of ailing, retired and complicit general “Enrique” (Julio Diaz). He has been convicted then cleared of being atop a pyramid of abuse, murder and corruption but his associates are determined to keep him further from the hands of the courts and the people. If he falls, so do many of them. His trial has attracted a great deal of public attention, and so his frequent visits to court - complete with sympathy inducing oxygen cylinder - have led to angry crowds outside a home that relies on police protection to keep secure. What begins to emerge, though, is a threat that is way more ethereal than the baying mob. To be honest, this element is disappointingly underplayed but as the tensions mount, we begin to see his family come to terms with the realities of a husband and a father who was obviously a bit of a brute. This is best exemplified by the increasing awareness of his doctor daughter “Natalia” (Sabrina De La Hoz) and more passively by his wife “Carmen” (Margarita Kenéfic) whose conjunctivitis might be as psychological as it is physical. It is really through these two characters that we learn more of the atrocities carried out by the government against the Mayan people, especially it’s women and children, and though the pacing is sluggish at best this is still quite a telling drama that only vaguely disguises it’s critique on the real administration of Efraín Montt who’s brief spell in the presidential palace led to genocide. The underpinning mythology of the “Sleeping Woman” isn’t anywhere near prominent enough and so though we do get quite a compelling drama about the excesses of military power and the ineffectiveness of the judiciary, I felt slightly short changed as it’s really only his devoted housekeeper “Valeriana” (the scene stealing Maria Telón) who raises any awareness of something more spiritually vengeful going on. I has it’s moments, but sort of falls between the stools of political drama and documentary and lacked the superstitious menace I was expecting.

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