For his third and most tonally adventurous feature to date, socially perceptive writer-director Jayro Bustamante repurposes one of Latin America’s most ubiquitous supernatural legends to fiercely ...

January 4, 2021 marks the 300th straight day I haven’t stepped inside a movie theater. As a professional film critic for nearly 20 years, the cinema has always been a second home to me. Early in my ...

Director Jayro Bustamante’s dark drama “La Llorona,” the Guatemalan entry in this year’s Oscar race, tells the story of a Guatemalan dictator who helped engineer a genocide of native Mayans but ...

Sundance: The brilliant Guatemalan director of "Tremors" and "Ixcanul" returns with a darkly atmospheric story of spiritual trauma. And yet, maybe it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if ...

The most disappointing aspect of last year's clunky, jumpscare-reliant Curse of La Llorona (on the long list of failures of the latest bland globe-trotting addition to the Conjuring franchise) was ...

A woman is spurned by a lover. She goes mad, drags her children to the river and drowns them. In the afterlife, she is condemned to search for them always, haunting riverbanks, dressed in white, ...

Jayro Bustamente’s politically charged horror film La Llorona, which won the Venice Days sidebar at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is Guatemala’s selection to the 2021 International Oscar race.

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"Not the ghost story you're expecting..." Shudder has unveiled an official US trailer for a Guatemalan horror film titled La Llorona, from talented filmmaker Jayro Bustamante. This first premiered at ...

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 ...

With the words "If you cry, I'll kill you" ringing in their ears, Alma and her sons are murdered in Guatemala's armed conflict. Thirty years later, a criminal case is brought against Enrique, a ...