It?s not near as horrible as The Nun, and honestly, that?s a good compliment for such a typical and cliche horror flick. ![]() Michael Chaves truly saves what could have been a disaster with another director. Wonderfully handled one-take sequences, which elevate the suspense levels, and he also produced some imaginative jump scares, even if most of them still lack actual scariness. Linda Cardellini is great as the lead, but every character is compelled to make dumb decisions to move the plot forward. Some characters needed more care in their scripts, and more focus on the story to tell instead of just creating scares after scares. Where I’m from, this was marketed as _The Curse of the Weeping Woman_ ’cause I guess Australia can’t be trusted with to pronounce a Spanish word. can’t be trusted to make a horror movie without cramming it into the bloated _Conjuring_ franchise. I love seeing Linda Cardellini get work, but I don’t know that a La Llorona movie was the best choice to put her in lead of, and I do know that **this** La Llorona movie was a bad choice, just like… Generally speaking. ![]() Bland? Old hat? Something along those lines might be a label that fits a little better.
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