![]() Furthermore, the scares are rather synthetic and the schlocky shock of a legendary lass on the loose in the Polyester Period of the early 70s fails to generate the potential shady sensationalism at bay. Unassuming hidden walls, creaky floorboards, occasional glimpses of the bothersome and shadowy La Llorona haunting spirit, banging windows, miscellaneous off-kilter sounds and sights, etc, all come off as gimmicky, orchestrated twitches without any juicy payoff. What could have been a hard-nose suspense piece invested in its twisty psychological confines of menacing Mexican folklore merely morphs into a conventional creeper that predictably meditates on its cheapened thrills and chills. ![]() This goosebump thriller feels more silly-minded than sinister. ![]() First-time director Chaves and ‘Five Feet Apart’ screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis provide the atmospheric, formulaic frights but ‘The Curse Of La Llorona’ never quite distinguishes itself from its aforementioned ‘Conjuring’ contemporaries.
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