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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warner Bros./New Line’s “The Curse of La Llorona” has beaten box office expectations this weekend with a $26.5 million opening ...

Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante first amazed critics in 2015 with his debut film “Ixcanul” (Volcano), which was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th ...

New horror film The Curse of La Llorona is facing backlash from fans of the source material for not casting a Latin actress in the lead role The upcoming horror film The Curse of La Llorona is ...

Minor spoilers ahead. The Curse of La Llorona, out April 19, is based on the well-known Mexican folklore of La Llorona, but it's not part of the Warren case files. In fact, The Curse of La Llorona is ...

Guatemala's Jayro Bustamante returns with his second stunner of 2019: a spin on the eponymous Latin American legend shot through with horror and political rage. Guatamalan writer-director Jayro ...

“The very simple reason [why La Llorona] isn’t [part of The Conjuring franchise is because] it was made without one of the [Conjuring franchise] producers, so technically it can not be fully embraced, ...

When I was about eight years old, my little sister and I developed a habit of sneaking out of our bedroom in the middle of the night to go watch TV in the living room. We weren’t the most stealthy ...

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 ...