Set in some densely forested, geographically-non-specific nook of Mexico, this very low-budget horror story options Autumn Reeser as suburban SoCal mother Carly Candlewood, who arrives for a vacation together with her husband Andrew (Antonio Cupo) and younger son Danny (Nicolas Madrazo). Collectively, they’re hoping to heal as a household after Carly’s latest miscarriage. Sadly, nobody talked about within the TripAdvisor opinions that the canals close to the small lodge the place the Candlewoods are staying have been haunted for years by a spooky ghost woman referred to as La Llorona (Zamia Fandiño).
The title pertains to the truth that she’s all the time crying for her misplaced little one, and her personal method of coping with bereavement is to steal different individuals’s youngsters, particularly at evening or at the very least when the digital camera has a crimson filter connected to create a murky, nocturnal look. What’s extra, all of the locals learn about her, and a memorial wall close by is plastered with photos of lacking youngsters: an disagreeable echo of the legions of individuals kidnapped all through the nation in actual life. La Llorona often takes the type of an ectoplasmic, diaphanous determine with a flowing robe, beneficiant embonpoint and a half-smashed face. However of late it appears she’s been gaining corporeality; the upside of which is that bullets appear to quickly repel her. However her rising energy represents a close to and current hazard for little Danny, whom she retains catching after which shedding as Carly fights her off.
Though it’s all the time a deal with to see veteran character actor Danny Trejo doing his stuff – enjoying an ambiguous determine connected to the lodge – each he and many of the remainder of the solid ship their strains with the flat, enthusiasm-free cadences of an ensemble cheesed off with the dimensions of their paycheques and the standard of the catering. The honourable exceptions are Fandiño herself and Mauricio Galaz as her lover, seen in a key flashback, who emote like they’re auditioning for the subsequent hit telenovela.
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