With 96 films under his belt, Rafael Baledón became a prolific director during The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Baledón’s massive filmography from 1953 to 1988 is easy to get lost in. Within it lies ...

A cross-cultural drama about an American businessman assigned to open an American fast food restaurant, to sell Mexican food, in Mexico City. When he and his pregnant wife move into the home of a ...

Now that fall is upon us, the temperature is a little cooler, the leaves are changing colors, and the wind sends chills down our spines. Sometimes, it feels as if La Llorona (The Crying Woman) ...

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 ...

A seductress. A wronged woman. A harbinger of destruction. La Llorona has taken on many forms throughout Latin America and in the Southwestern United States. Stories of La Llorona—the Weeping Woman or ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Folklorists will tell you that la llorona is a ghostly figure said to be a crying mother doomed to grieve for her drowned, dead offspring in perpetuity, and it takes a while to figure out how the ...

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 woman is spurned by a lover. She goes mad, drags her children to the river and drowns them. In the afterlife, she is condemned to search for them always, haunting riverbanks, dressed in white, ...

Sure, Jesus wept. But La Llorona, the crying woman of Mexican folklore, was doomed to weep for all eternity. Top that.

The Oscar-shortlisted genocide allegory packaged as a horror movie has become a "national standard" in his home country, Bustamante tells IndieWire. A Google search for Guatemalan submissions for the ...