La Llorona seeps into memories and households across countries, emerging from rough terrains, desolate roads and hollow creeks. Geographically diverse, the oral tradition and literary material of the ...

Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies and Associate Professor, Department of English and Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin For more ...

Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona is a multi-layered film that seemingly weaves silenced history, generational trauma, and folkloric horror into its narrative. As the film ventures into each of these ...

Like previous Conjuring films such as Annabelle and the Nun, the Curse of the Weeping Woman also claims to be based on a ‘true story’ - the Mexican folk tale of La Llorona, a scorned woman who killed ...

This story first aired in November 2021. If you find yourself in San Francisco’s Mission District at the corner of 24th and York streets, you can’t help but notice the massive, blue-toned mural that ...