Really, the only connective tissue to the Conjuring universe is the brief appearance of Tony Amendola as Father Perez - a character you might remember from 2014’s creepy doll spinoff Annabelle. La Llorona was directed by a relative newcomer name Michael Chaves (who has already been tapped for next year’s The Conjuring 3) and was written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the duo behind, of all things, Five Feet Apart - which I argued was an unintentional horror film anyway, so maybe it’s fitting? Unfortunately, this one didn’t wind up being an unintentional romance of any sort, much to my personal disappointment (although, like Five Feet Apart, I think the themes it touches on are far more gripping than the by-the-numbers plot it keeps returning to).
A universe, it turns out, that includes The Curse of La Llorona.ĭespite Wan’s producer credit on this one, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s just a one-off. As a director, writer, and producer, he’s had a hand in some of the biggest horror franchises to emerge in the past 15 years, including Saw, Insidious, and of course the extended universe that’s spun out of 2013’s The Conjuring.
Somewhere between high-concept horror ( Hereditary, Us) and the bottom of the barrel ( Slender Man) lies the profitable sweet spot of the genre - a sweet spot that’s been dominated in recent memory by one man: James Wan.
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