Linda Cardellini (“Green Book”) is a widowed L.A. She is seen as a wraith in a veil, “cursed to roam the Earth looking for children to take their place.” “Finish your chores/homework/vegetables or La Llorona will get you!”Ī prologue establishes who she was, a 17th century rural beauty who married well, and when she realized her husband was cheating on her, drowned their little boys in a river. “The Weeping Woman” is presented here as a Mexican boogey-woman, the unseen menace you threaten your kids with. But it’s refreshing to see a movie, even one with few real surprises, whose filmmakers take such exacting care on the details that it still ticks over like a finely-tuned engine.
And yes, the script strictly adheres to the horror movie “Battle a Demon” Stations of the Cross. If you don’t have hairs rising on the back of your neck at half a dozen points in this Hollywood bastardization of a Mexican folk legend, you must be bald. Whatever else they manage in their performances –and they’re kids, so “uneven” is the best word to sum up their work in general - the children in this ghost story sell it.
It is very faith-based.” affirms the actor that gained recognition on the TV series “Breaking Bad,” and the film “Training Day.”Man, I don’t know what first-time feature director Michael Chaves did to scare the hell out of the kids he cast in “The Curse of La Llorona.” Judging from the utterly convincing looks of unfiltered terror and the blood-curdling screams he elicited, I don’t think I want to know. “He uses a combination of spirituality and mysticism, combining his training as a priest and his work as a curandero, to combat this darkness with light. “What is different about La Llorona, compared to other monsters, is that she is a heartbroken woman” explains Raymond Cruz, who plays the priest turned curandero Rafael Olvera. Just filming with kids that acted as my character’s children, was enough to bring out my maternal instincts, ” revealed Cardellini. “I am also a mother and that is how I was able to identify with the idea of protecting my children at any cost. I live in California, and I have been to Mexico several times.“ She is the one who carries the main weight of the film as Anna Tate-García, a social worker who tries to protect Patricia’s sons and her own from the wrath of La Llorona. Linda Cardellini is an American actress of Italian roots, but with strong connections to the Latino world: “I love being able to be part of something that is important for this culture. This time we see how she is tied to a family in the United States, I think it’s good news for our Hispanic culture, because this legend will be known around the world with this a Hollywood production,” who shared her first name with her character. “I decided to make the film because when I read the script I noticed the respect that the story of La Llorona was getting. La Llorona has always been an entity and has been present among us and we believe in her “, said the Venezuelan actress Patricia Velázquez, who plays an immigrant in Los Angeles being tormented by the mythical creature. Many of us as children, we came to listen and others to say that they touched it or even saw it.
I was six years old the first time I heard about La Llorona and from there that was the way my mom I had inside the house. “I grew up in Mexico, in Patzcuaro, Michoacán. THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA is now playing in theaters nationwide. Michael Chaves makes his directorial debut with another horror movie connected to James Wan’s Conjuring Universe.ĭesde Hollywood had the chance to speak with its protagonist, Patricia Velasquez, Linda Cardellini, and Raymond Cruz. After terrorizing generations of Latinos, the spectral weeping woman will be haunting the whole world in the new New Line Pictures film THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA.