![]() ![]() The legend, as is the nature of folklore, arrives beset with a long history of variation and retelling. (The film is currently streaming on Shudder.) Still, we’ve never seen her quite like this. ![]() “The Wailing Woman,” as she’s sometimes known, has gotten the movie treatment before, as early as the 1933 Mexican film La Llorona and as recently as last year’s The Curse of La Llorona, which is part of the Conjuring franchise. La Llorona, Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante’s taut, effective new horror film, is an act of reinvention-one of many for the nightmarish ghost of its title, a staple of Latin American folklore for over 500 years, since at least the era of the Spanish conquistadors. ![]()
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