Linda Cardellini stars as a social worker raising her two children in a Los Angeles home which is haunted by a La Llorona, a ghost of a woman who has lost her children and is determined to cause ...

And yet, maybe it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if critics let their readers assume a more direct connection between these wildly different visions of death. While anyone who subscribes to ...

As horror fans we often focus on the terrifying as a function of something supernatural, or something inherently evil but singular. A werewolf, a zombie, a maniacal serial killer. Real, grand-scale ...

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 ...

Horror was the perfect genre for filmmaker Jayro Bustamante and his crew to tell the story of Guatemala’s history of genocide and violence against women in “La Llorona,” shortlisted for an Oscar in ...

Stories about La Llorona have not only terrified Latino children for decades around campfires and during sleepovers with cousins, the vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore is quite scary in horror movies ...

Critic, horror writer, etc. She/Her. Cohost of the podcast BitchesOnComics and cofounder of the Decoded Pride Queer speculative fiction anthology. La Llorona is a very spooky myth that has been the ...

Since A film director has enough to do already when bringing a movie to life, casting in the U.S. is typically delegated to a casting director. But Guatemala’s “La Llorona” director Jayro Bustamante ...