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Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show! After the serious affair that was Drag Me to Hell last time, we thought we needed to do something light and breezy this week, and the randomizer gods gifted us with one such film: a horror drama from 2019 dealing with generational trauma, the sins of the father and the consequences of systemic genocidal violence and abuse, Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona!
From Wikipedia:
La Llorona, also known as The Weeping Woman, is a 2019 Guatemalan horror film directed by Jayro Bustamante.Alma is murdered with her children during a military attack in Guatemala, but 30 years later when the general who ordered the genocide is found not guilty, Alma comes back to the world of the living to torment the man.
La Llorona had its world premiere on 30 August 2019 at the Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori) and later screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards,making the shortlist of 15 films. On 6 August 2020, the film premiered on the horror streaming service Shudder. On October 18th, 2022, the film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD.
Join Clay and Amanda as they rise up from the depths to haunt the halls of Grandpa’s secret swastika-free armory, frog coercion, geriatric boners, La Llorona the swim coach (questionable technique, but effect results), and questionable parenting, but messed up and questionable in a very different, specific way.
So get your army of frogs, steal your grandpa’s oxygen tank, pull a gun on your elderly wife, and face the legacy of brutality and genocidal torture you’re left in your wake with us…if you dare!