The Curse of La Llorona (2019) Movie Review or ''Mama'', the Mexican version

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So, a couple of days before I went to see this movie, I got wind that it's part of James Wan's Conjuring franchise or Conjiverse, as I like to call it, which I did not know till that time and I got a bit more pumped for this movie. I mean, yeah, The Nun was no masterpiece and the first Annabelle movie was crap but, besides those two, this franchise had more good than bad. I thought that this was going to be on the good side but I think that it's somewhere in the middle, actually.

The trailers were creepy, the folk tale that it's based on has very much potential and it would have been very easy to create a good horror movie if they would have concentrated more on the potential of the story rather than genre cliches.

First, a bit of a synopsis for ya folks: like I said, it is based on a Mexican folk tale from the 70's about a woman that killed her children, known as the Weeping Woman or La Llorona. In 1970's Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

So, you can see that it's got potential to be a very good and very well constructed horror movie. Instead, they thrown a few cheap jump scares in the mix, a couple of them being somewhat effective, granted. I enjoyed the atmosphere, very well created, creepy, menacing and terrifying. The sound effects are another plus for this movie and, actually, the sound effects are scarier that the actual scares. They've managed to create some sound design that adds to the level of creepiness set by its atmosphere, which I dug.

But, besides that, there is not much else to this movie. It full of genre cliches, it's very, I mean very predictable and, if you are looking for some links to the other Conjiverse movies, there is only one and, frankly, it felt forced, just to show us that this movie is part of this universe. The cast is good and if you are wondering why I said, in the title, Mama, the Mexican version, is because I was referring to the horror movie Mama, from 2013, with Jessica Chastain, that was also about an entity who has trying to steel two kids from a mother. By the way, that movie is a little bit better that this one.

Overall, it's not a bad addition to this universe but it could have been so much more. So, you can put this alongside The Nun and Annabelle. 5.8/10

OK guys, that is my review for this one. Coming soon, is the big one, the one that a whole world has been waiting for or, at least, 50% of it :)). Avengers: Endgame of course, is the movie that I am talking about. I will see it tomorrow and, hopefully, post the review also tomorrow or on Sunday. Also, I will the post the reviews for the other 21 Marvel movies soon. Until then, take care, stay movie nerdy and keep on reviewing!