The legend of La Llorona is fairly straightforward. A mother scorned by her thoughtless husband seeks an unthinkable revenge. Hoping to cut him to the...
Throughout September, the Murder Made Fiction podcast has been discussing La Llorona – first with a primer (listen here), then 1933 Mexican film The Crying Woman (listen...
Mexican Gothic. After kicking off September with a primer on La Llorona (listen here), Jenn and I began looking at texts with one of the earliest...
Mexican Triptych. This month Jenn and I are all about South American legend/folklore with a deep dive into the cinematic adaptations of La Llorona. Last week...
Throughout Mexico and Central America, children grow up fearing La Llorona. Also known as the Weeping Woman, this menacing figure is said to lurk near various...
Directed by Patricia Harris Seeley, written by Cameron Larson (story) and Jose Prendes (screenplay), The Legend of La Llorona follows a family vacationing to Mexico in...
Knight Light: A Horror Movie Podcast extends Hispanic Heritage Month with Hispanic Haunts beginning with the Shudder-exclusive Guatemalan ghost story, La Llorona! La Llorona follows a former Guatemalan dictator, Enrique...
Last night, Fangoria and Shudder got together to celebrate 2020’s best horror at the virtual 2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, a fun ceremony that ran about the...
Now on Digital HD from RLJE and Shudder is Jayro Bustamante‘s La Llorona, which is said to be “a tale of horror and magical realism. The film...
The major horror movie player on the awards circuit this year is Shudder and director Jayro Bustamante‘s La Llorona, which has been nominated in the Best...
2020 was the year where just about everything was thrown into a state of disarray and one of the most prominent industries to be impacted was...
The nominations for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, with the horror genre represented in a few different categories this year. For...
2020 has been an absolute beast of a year in every capacity. The movie industry faced unprecedented upheaval and solutions are still being found on how...
We’ve got some exciting news of potential horror representation at next year’s Academy Awards, as Deadline is reporting that Guatemala has chosen director Jayro Bustamante‘s La...
La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, is one of the most well-known figures in Latin American folklore. The details of her origins may differ, but the...
The world is full of horrors, and most of them are no fun at all. But in the horror genre we use these stories to empower...
Ahead of the recently announced third season that’s coming our way next year, Joe Bob Briggs first returns to Shudder next month with “The Last Drive-In:...
Not to be confused with last year’s The Curse of La Llorona, Jayro Bustamante‘s La Llorona is said to be “a tale of horror and magical...
Shudder is getting to work early having already acquired rights in North America, the UK and Ireland to a pair of Sundance titles, Scare Me and La...
The Sundance Film Festival announced today the showcase of new independent feature films selected across all categories for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival that will hosts...
What would have been a pretty neat secret was revealed when Warner Bros’ Pictures’ The Curse of La Llorona (review) premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last month. That’s right,...
A ghostly woman, with long black hair and dressed all in white, wanders alone at night wailing for her lost children. Children that she drowned. That...
Hiding within an article over at Variety, it’s suggested that Atomic Monster’s tentatively-titled The Children is a Conjuring movie. While we can’t confirm that it’s an...
While we talk a great deal about horror myths and urban legends in the forms of movies and other popular media, we don’t really get to...
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