La Llorona seeps into memories and households across countries, emerging from rough terrains, desolate roads and hollow creeks. The phantom appeared nearly 100 years later onscreen in the 1960s in “La Llorona,” which travels back to New Spain and to the present time in Guanajuato, Mexico. Literary writer Octavio Paz’s 1950 essay, “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” defines Mexican national identity …
A disconsolate mother dressed in white wanders through Mexico City’s floating gardens looking for her children killed by the coronavirus, in a pandemic-era adaptation of a legend rooted in Aztec mythology. The traditional play “La Llorona” returns to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Xochimilco ahead of the Day of the Dead with a poignant tribute to the victims of …
What we call the Conjuring Universe has become a sprawling franchise of big-budget horror-lite spookfests that pull from every urban legend, folk tale and ghost story one can imagine, usually involving vengeful feminine spirits and the women with whom they do battle. We’ve got hauntings, possessions, creepy dolls, demonic nuns and now, the ancient ghost of a murderous mother in …
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