Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona is a multi-layered film that seemingly weaves silenced history, generational trauma, and folkloric horror into its narrative. As the film ventures into each of these ...

“Brennan Went to Film School” is a column that proves that horror has just as much to say about the world as your average Oscar nominee. Probably more, if we’re being honest. You may have noticed that ...

The legend of La Llorona, or “The Weeping Woman,” has scared people for many years. It comes from Mexican folklore and has ...

This review of “La Llorona” was first published following its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. For his third and most tonally adventurous feature to date, socially perceptive ...

The Weeping Woman returns in a thoughtfully creepy Guatemalan movie in which real-life terrors commingle with genre frights. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

The Oscar-shortlisted genocide allegory packaged as a horror movie has become a "national standard" in his home country, Bustamante tells IndieWire. A Google search for Guatemalan submissions for the ...

The legend of La Llorona has been a part of Latino folklore for generations and has frequently made its way into pop culture over the last 60 years. From the 1960 Mexican horror movie La Llorona to ...

A seductress. A wronged woman. A harbinger of destruction. La Llorona has taken on many forms throughout Latin America and in the Southwestern United States. Stories of La Llorona—the Weeping Woman or ...