Review of The Curse of La Llorona (2019) by Tomtag — 31 May 2019

One question before reviewing the movie: Is “The Curse of La Llorona” part of the Conjuring Universe? Maybe and maybe not, look at Rotten Tomatoes’ List of The Conjuring Universe and “The Curse o La Llorona” wasn’t there but I still think it is because there’s James Wan (as a producer).

And guess what, this movie FAILS! And here’re my opinions about it. Initially, the performances are good with Linda Cardellini as Anna Garcia and her two children, Sam and Chris and there’s a woman Patricia played by an actor with the same name.

Their acting was the most impressive of the movie. They knew how to scream, how to weep but I wasn’t impressed much with the actor of La Llorona, she should be a lot scarier than how she was in the movie.

I like the make-up of La Llorona, a grey face with black tears and yellow eyes, that’s a bit creepy. This movie definitely looks like a James Wan movie. James Wan had some horror masterpieces like Saw, The Conjuring and more.

The cinematography, it was okay, how they shot was good, not disturbing or bad at all. I don’t know if they used that much special effects and then I looked at the budget, it’s $9 million, they wasted some.

You know why this movie FAILS? It’s because how I measured the movie in the scare factor, from a scale from 1% to 100%, I would rate this movie 5% scary and that’s the problem with horror movies nowadays, they forgot to make the movie scary, all they did was adding blood here and there, it’s not scary and I wanted to see this in the theatre and then people made stupid decision to rate this R and it’s a waste, just like Hellboy.

Even the jumpscares they had were over and over again but none of them worked. The whole movie is totally boring, almost every part of the movie is non-horror. The Conjuring Universe is going to be one of the best horror franchises but all it takes is one substandard spin-off to make you realize just how much craft and care are needed to make these things work right.

I really don’t think there’s a reason for this movie to exist. It’s not scary or creepy, it’s just so annoying that I really want to give it a 1 or 0 but nah, good acting, good cinematography as well but still, the movie really FAILS.