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On Wednesday, the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) hosted their Noche de Terror, an event that combines a movie ...

Laced with cautious optimism, the firm voice of Guatemalan icon and Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum proclaims her conviction that Indigenous people can harness filmmaking as social catalyst.

A version of this story about “La Llorona” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Director Jayro Bustamante’s dark drama “La Llorona,” the Guatemalan entry in ...

The legend of La Llorona has been a part of Latino folklore for generations and has frequently made its way into pop culture over the last 60 years. From the 1960 Mexican horror movie La Llorona to ...

This post contains spoilers for the film La Llorona. The Shudder original La Llorona(not to be confused with the recent atrocious Americanized version) exemplifies what an urban legend brought to film ...

Horror was the perfect genre for filmmaker Jayro Bustamante and his crew to tell the story of Guatemala’s history of genocide and violence against women in “La Llorona,” shortlisted for an Oscar in ...

The Latin American folktale of La Llorona has been around for centuries. There are many versions, but roughly, the story is about a woman who’s enraged by her husband having an affair, so she drowns ...

The most disappointing aspect of last year's clunky, jumpscare-reliant Curse of La Llorona (on the long list of failures of the latest bland globe-trotting addition to the Conjuring franchise) was ...

Reinterpreting the legend of the titular Weeping Woman, the Shudder title centers on Enrique Monteverde (Julio Diaz), a dictator who evades prosecution for his crimes against humanity and is ...

A pioneering Mexican horror film from 1933, about La Llorona, the “crying woman” of folkloric fame who haunts the lives of everyone crossing her path. Ramon Peon directed. In Spanish with subtitles.