La Llorona - Le lacrime del male

Supernatural sleepover fodder

There's something scarily inconsequential about fright flick The Curse of La Llorona, a formulaic slab of supernatural dirge destined to be forgotten by year's, or perhaps even month's, end. Not technically part of the blockbusting Conjuring franchise yet linked via an awkward, silly anecdote about evil doll Annabelle (who also cropped up in last month's Shazam!), this 70s-set horror starts 300 years earlier with an ineffective introduction to the titular terror. La Llorona is a mother who drowns her two young children after finding her husband with a younger woman, and her story becomes an urban legend for future generations. [...]

di Benjamin Lee, articolo completo (2134 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Guardian 3 maggio 2019