The Curse of the Weeping Woman movie review: The weakest film in Conjuring series

The Curse of the Weeping Woman cast: Linda Cardellini, Roman Christou, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Raymond Cruz
The Curse of the Weeping Woman director: Michael Chaves
The Curse of the Weeping Woman rating: 1.5 stars

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Working mothers with two squabbling children live through many a daily nightmare. Not finding the right pair of shoes on time for school, and watching that school bus drive away as you race to it, are just two of them.

So yep, The Curse of The Willing Woman gets that right. Its tough being in Annas (Cardellini) shoes, particularly as her husband cop is lately deceased.

An ashen-faced woman wearing muddied bridal clothes with a veil covering her face, who has a really long and repetitive grab-that-arm-and-sear-it-good routine, as her ghost thing? Well, she may jerk you upright one or two times, but people like me are just hoping Anna doesnt face the sneers of her non-accommodative boss for being late — “again” — to work on account of her children.

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There is a problem with how this film treats the selfsame children too. While The Curse of the Weeping Woman is being marketed as the sixth in the ever-expanding and super-successful Conjuring universe — you are treated to a trailer of Annabelle Comes Home as bonus — in reality there is little connecting the film to it but for James Wan as producer, a glimpse of that creepy doll, and the grim words of a wide-eyed (and is that kohl-eyed?) priest citing Church and forces beyond possibilities from those previous films, who pops in and, quickly, pops out.

Stepping into his shoes is a Mexican shaman or “curandero” (it sounds lovelier than on page, with all those rolled as and os), “straddling the worlds between science and faith”. Rafael (Cruz) has to pitch in as the weeping woman is actually the Mexican La Llorana, who in 17th century drowned her two young sons in a fitful rage of jealousy against her husband, and is now fated to roam the world looking for young children to “replace hers”.

Through a sad twist of fate, her interested eyes fall on Annas kids. As Rafael goes about fighting the Mexican ghost, you really feel for the children. Not because of what the weeping woman puts them through — hidingRead More – Source