La Llorona, a woman who according to Mexican legend murdered her own children and now wanders the earth looking for them, snatching other unsuspecting tots and drowning them, gets her close-up in a major Hollywood film, Warner Bros.' " The Curse of La Llorona ." It's a pretty terrifying bedtime story popular in the Latino community, used to scare children into behaving with the threat that La Llorona will come and take them if they don't. "La Llorona" is at its best when Chaves is permitted to give scenes time to breathe. The legend of La Llorona could inspire a whole universe of films on its own, but not with a kick-off like this. "The Cure of La Llorona," a Warner Bros. release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "violence and terror."

Source: ABC News April 18, 2019 17:37 UTC