1st watched 7/2/2021 - 3 out of 10(Dir-Jose L. Cruz):
Strange, confusing haunting story about a modern possession from the ghost "La Llorona" causing havoc and murder in a small Arizona town. This legendary Mexican ghost is based on a woman who drowned her children to try and get a man to marry her, but it back-fired and she roams the land entering and possessing young women to do the same. We are initially presented a story where a young boy survives a car crash, and than becomes psychic(this becomes the character played by David Green, whom when he grows up he tries to solve the murders in the town - I didn't realize this until writing the review). He is a teacher of Psychology with ESP who loses his job and does what I have mentioned above. They than show a young woman feeling strange, waking up, and finding her kids drowned in the bathtub. We than start following another woman, who is the wife of a political candidate - with her supposedly being possessed as well by the same ghost. The movie jumps back and forth to so many different people it was hard to make the connections, at first. In a lot of ways this is a detective story where the police and the Psychologist are trying to find out what is going on(but, of course, are never on the same page). The acting is very bad, and the editing is atrocious. The director redeems himself a little bit near the end, with some unique camerawork and special effects when the Psychologist tries to enter La Llorona's mind (believe it or not). All in all, this was a very badly put-together story with bad acting and a little scariness - but not enough to hold horror fans or anyone to want to watch the movie. I'm sure Mr. Jose L. Cruz (who created most of it) is proud it got released, but that is not necessarily a good thing for it's viewers.