She hears Patricia, accused of her sons' murders, screaming that it was Anna's fault for taking her sons, and that Patricia had tried to stop the malevolent force of the woman in white, "La Llorona".Ĭhris leaves the car to investigate himself and is seized by La Llorona, leaving burn marks on his arm. Bringing her children Chris and Sam, she tells them to stay in the car while she investigates the murder scene. The mirror cracks and the woman grabs Carlos.Īnna is called to investigate the deaths of the boys, found drowned in a river. At a child services shelter, Tomas sleepwalks numbly through the facility and Carlos follows him until Tomas points to a mirror where both boys see a woman clad in a white dress. Ignoring their warnings, she brings the boys to the police. Patricia's children, brothers Carlos and Tomas, tell Anna to keep them in the room so they are protected. Inside, she finds the children locked behind a door, and Patricia attacks her and is taken away by the police. Anna arrives at Patricia's house for a welfare check.
Horrified, he runs away but his mother catches him and seemingly drowns him too.ģ00 years later, in 1973 Los Angeles, Hispanic caseworker Anna Tate-Garcia investigates the disappearance of client Patricia Alvarez's two children. The boy finds his mother drowning his brother in a stream.
The boy closes his eyes briefly, and when he opens them, his family is missing. In 1673 Mexico, a family plays in a field, and the youngest son gives his mother a necklace. Enlisting the help of a local faith healer, she discovers that La Llorona has latched herself onto Anna and will stop at nothing to take her children. As she digs deeper, she finds striking similarities between the case and the terrifying supernatural occurrences haunting her family. And there is no escape from the curse of La Llorona.When Anna Garcia, a social worker and widow raising her two kids in 1973 Los Angeles, is called to check in on one of her cases, she finds signs of foul play. Because there is no peace for her anguish. she will stop at nothing to lure you into the gloom. Their only hope to survive La Llorona's deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide.īeware of her chilling wail. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. In 1970s Los Angeles, La Llorona is stalking the night - and the children. As the centuries have passed, her desire has grown more voracious. La Llorona creeps in the shadows and preys on the children, desperate to replace her own. They are lethal, and those who hear her death call in the night are doomed. In life, she drowned her children in a jealous rage, throwing herself in the churning river after them as she wept in pain. The mere mention of her name has struck terror around the world for generations. A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand. The film arrives in theaters on April 19, 2019. "The Curse of La Llorona" is produced by horror maestro James Wan, and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Michael Chaves who previously made the award-winning 2016 horror short "The Maiden." She soon enlists the help of a Latino priest (Cruz) who resorts to unconventional methods. The film, set in 1970s Los Angeles, follows a social worker (Cardellini) as she discovers her young children are being terrorized by the frightening La Llorona phantom. She is frequently seen near a creek or river where she is usually kneeling down, moaning loudly in a blood-curdling fashion. La Llorona is a terrifying apparition of a weeping and grieving woman who, as the legend goes, lost her young child to a drowning accident. The film stars Linda Cardellini (Netflix's Bloodline, Green Book), Raymond Cruz (TV's Major Crimes, Breaking Bad), and Patricia Velasquez (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns) and is inspired by a real-life ghost legend which is mainly prevalent in the Latin community.
Beware of La Llorona, the weeping woman, for she will scare the living daylights out of you.Ĭheck out the first official teaser trailer for WB's new supernatural horror movie "The Curse of La Llorona," which is being brought to you by the producers of "The Conjuring" universe.