The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

An inverse MCU, each movie in the Conjuring universe appears to get progressively worse. This movie presents a seven film culmination of exhausted, insipid jump scares, discordant sound cues and horribly designed demon ladies. While only tangentially connected to the whole of the franchise, this movie recycles ad nauseam the worst cliches and excesses from each of the previous entries, atop an atrocious script and barely serviceable cast. The actors are fine, they phone in the bad dialogue with a lack of enthusiasm befitting the writer’s efforts. Each beat is a predictable rehash of better cinematic beats, with each ‘scare’ market retested and executive boardroom approved. This film’s greatest crime is to squander a genuinely chilling mexican folk tale to present a formulaic retread without any actual frights or scares present.

For those interested, HBO did a sequence of short animations called Fantasmagorias, and covers the same legend in 3 minutes to far superior chill and success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuCNPC19G0&fbclid=IwAR2HjfKgIvKvaE_CulPx48TA5c4Hh1RB0hYB7tO6ZcRzuekl-5n8XUuTM5o