“La Llorona”, que se puede ver desde este fin de semana en la plataforma Shudder, es el tercer largometraje de Jayro Bustamente (“Ixcanul”, “Temblores”) y su primera incursión en el género del terror. ‘La Llorona’ es más aterradora que nunca en esta reinvención con matices sociales His “La Llorona,” which landed on the horror platform Shudder earlier this month, brings the story into the present and gives this tormented spirit a more compelling milieu. Thankfully, director Jayro Bustamante has delivered a picture worthy of her legend. La Llorona is a figure whose place in the lore of this continent dates back centuries - likely to the precolonial, indigenous myths of Mesoamerica - and she deserves much better than the tedious frightfests that have been made in her name. These films represent an unfortunate treatment of this cultural grand dame. (A Los Angeles that, strangely, didn’t much feel like the ’70s or Los Angeles.)
Wailing.) And, of course, there was last year’s forgettable “The Curse of La Llorona,” in which La Llorona, looking like a gory cadaver, haunts a family in 1970s Los Angeles. Over the years, this has provided grist for an array of horror movies with names like “The Cry” and “The Wailer,” the latter part of a trilogy. There is jealousy, passion and brutal filicide, all followed by eternal haunting. The legend of La Llorona, the wailing woman of Mexican and Central American folklore, is ripe for cinematic interpretation.
In the afterlife, she is condemned to search for them always, haunting riverbanks, dressed in white, crying for the children who died by her hand. She goes mad, drags her children to the river and drowns them.
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