by Blake Chapman In the beautiful countryside of Mexico, there once lived a gorgeous woman named Maria. She fell for a rich ranchero, married the man she loved and had two wonderful kids. Following a rough patch in their marriage where her husband placed more attention on his children than his wife, Maria witnessed her husband in the arms of a younger beauty. In an fit of furious revenge, Maria drowned her two sons in a nearby river. After she came to her senses and realized the extent of her actions, she threw herself into those very same waters. That night, villagers saw a figure sobbing along the banks of the river, wearing Maria’s burial clothes and crying for the loss of her children. Today, the weeping woman is said to comb the earth in search of misbehaving children, luring them to bodies of water after dark to punish them for their misdeeds. That is the curse of La Llorona, and while the 2019 rendition that goes by the same name evokes fear of her dreaded cry, this new addition to The Conjuring universe does not present many effectively scary tricks even with the spice of a real-world legend.
Narrative inconsistencies that belong in a graveyard
Acting that could raise the dead
Design and directing that are as alive as ever
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