“As a producer, you get very excited about bringing a story like that to the screen because movies are about making an audience feel something, and this legend is profoundly emotional.”
“More than anything, I was just blown away by how rich of a tale it is, how emotional it is, and how compelling La Llorona herself is as a character,” he says. Like Wan, producer Emile Gladstone had his first brush with the lore years ago and has been under its spell ever since. I thought, ‘What an amazing, scary figure to bring to the big screen.’”
You understand why it’s such an integral part of people’s lives growing up. It hits you at the deepest levels of horror and touches on fears you didn’t even know you had. “People see my movies and guess that I love ghost stories – and they’re right – but La Llorona is so much more.
“When I first came to America, one of the first stories that people would come up and tell me was the legend of La Llorona,” says producer James Wan. That brings the weeping woman to life in 1973 Los Angeles, and into the path ofĪnna Tate Garcia, a social worker and widowed single mom, who has never beenĮxposed to the legend that’s about to descend on her family. Through centuries, “The Curse of La Llorona” instead tells an original story Her rich origins in the able hands of the storytellers who have carried it And though it twists and turns along the way, in every form and any language, one thing remains constant: it still scares the living daylights out of anyone who hears it. Her story has taken on a life of its own through centuries of tellings. One of the most iconic and widely known figures in Latin American folklore, La Llorona – and her terrible, eternal hunt for children’s souls to replace the ones she drowned in life – has fueled the nightmares of generations of kids and left her mark on a vast swath of the Americas. And the last thing you’ll hear is her haunting cry: ¡Ay, mis hijos! And while the best tales endure, few have retained their power to scare like La Llorona.Ī mother, a woman scorned, a killer, a legend…she is the weeping woman who stalks the rivers and waterways, waiting in the dark to drag you away if you misbehave or stay out too late.
Marking the remarkable feature directorial debut of Michael Chaves, whose astounding vision and masterful direction turns Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis’ haunting and hypnotic screenplay into one of the most frightening and emotionally compelling films in the supernatural realm.īefore there were horror movies, the currency of fear the world over was folklore. The Curse of La Llorona brings the iconic Latin American legend to terrifying life in an original horror film.
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