Anna, a widow who has two children of her own (Roman Christou and Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen), soon finds her own family stalked by La Llorona. Not believing the woman, Anna takes the kids out of their home, places them in foster care, and they turn up dead the next day. Fast forward three-hundred years to 1973, and Los Angeles based Child Protective Services officer Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda Cardellini) is working a case where a seemingly negligent and crazy mother (Patricia Velasquez) has been keeping her two kids locked in a closet to keep La Llorona from getting them. Distraught by her own actions, La Llorona – the weeping woman, played by Marisol Ramirez – haunts families looking for new children to kill and call her own. The Curse of La Llorona takes inspiration from Mexican folklore, specifically a superstition surrounding a woman who murdered her own kids by drowning them back in 1673. It’s 93 minutes of squandered potential and cliches. It’s not the worst looking or shoddiest made horror movie to come down the pike in recent memory, but it’s assuredly near the top of the list if one were ranking them based on overall boredom and tedium. As dumb and predictable as modern horror tends to get these days, The Curse of La Llorona – the latest entry into The Conjuring extended universe – is a plot that needs about thirty seconds of explanation padded out with a bunch of jump scares strung together.
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