A La Llorona movie that's more in the spirit of "The Exorcist" via Tubi but lacks any of the actual qualities of that movie, "The Haunting of La Llorona" works well as a defence of 2019's "The Curse of La Llorona" but is a disaster of a movie. Fortunately, it's just barely 70 minutes long and the actors, although bad, aren't totally unbearable, so it kinda flies by while making very little sense and offering no rewards. With all lore reduced to an afterthought, its 'La Llorona' figure is a vengeful spirit who has a thing for a morally imperfect priest but focuses most of its wrath on others, most notably Cassandra (Kaylin Zeren), whose defining traits are jogging and suspecting her partner is cheating on her. Cue the same unconvincing makeup/VFX work on loop and acting performances to match. Most tragically of all, there are zero laughs; just pure shit.
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