Also, in the Conjuring films, we get to invest emotionally in the characters and hence are affected by what’s happening to them on screen. Because while the films directed by James Wan are genuinely scary, this one is not. How, with the help of a shaman (Raymond Cruz), the family is able to defeat the spirit forms the crux of the film.ĭebutant director Michael Chaves seems to be a big fan of the Conjuring franchise as he has faithfully copied the template of Conjuring films.
The boys get drowned later that night and a distraught Patricia, who knows that the spirit of La Llorona is behind the killings, invokes the spirit and beseeches it to kill Anna’s children Samantha (Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen) and Chris (Roman Christou). Patricia tries to argue that all she wants is to keep her children safe but no one listens to her. Furious, Anna gets the mother arrested and sends the kids into an orphanage. She learns that Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velásquez) has been forcing her two young sons to live in a closet. Social worker Anna Garcia (Linda Cardellini), who works in the child support department, is assigned to investigate the house of a woman know to be abusive towards her kids. Why 1973, you may ask - well, that’s to tie it to (rather clumsily) the Conjuring universe. The film is not set in the 17th century however but in 1973 Los Angeles. Her spirit was cursed because of that and was destined to walk the earth, stalking children and killing them. the Weeping Woman, drowned her two kids in a fit of jealous rage when she caught her husband in the arms of another woman. It’s said that back in the 17th century Mexico, La Llorona, a.k.a.
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