"La Llorona" ("the weeping woman") is a figure in Mexican and Latin American folklore who, according to the film, killed her own children to punish a cheating husband, then was "cursed" to walk the Earth as a child-snatching phantom. If you're on the couch at home, this movie is fine to doze off to, and that's about it. Witness The Curse of La Llorona, which is linked to the hit series by a reference to the evil doll Annabelle, a production team and director Michael Chaves (who helmed forthcoming The Conjuring 3). The Conjuring movies turned these formulas into a science, at their best milking them for genuine shudders. If a main character is alone, framed for several beats in shallow focus, look for the Scary Thing in the background. (When it's not time for anything scary to happen yet, the sound mixer will simply turn an innocent Foley effect - in The Curse of La Llorona, the clatter of a bead curtain - up to 11.) If there's a reflective surface, expect the Scary Thing to appear there. All the beats are so soothingly predictable: If the soundtrack goes quiet, expect a jump scare in approximately 10 seconds. I suspect every fright fan has had the experience of dozing off streaming a crappy horror movie.
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