► A ghost tries to wash a young girl's hair, but the girl yells and the ghost's blackened fingers touch the girl's head as she goes under water, the girl comes back up, gasping and looking scared and when she looks around something unseen grabs her, pushes her under the water and blackened fingers hold her there and shake her head as she strugglers the mother comes screaming to the bathroom as the door slams and locks itself, she gets in and grabs her daughter out of the tub as blackened fingers appear at the edges of the tub the ghost grabs the woman's arm as they both scream for several seconds, a little smoke rises, and the ghost disappears. A young girl and her preteen brother shut themselves in an attic where the girl screams when she sees a wedding dress on a mannequin and a ghost enters the house and gets into the attic it slams things around loudly and traps the children between packing boxes, it approaches the boy and he brandishes an amulet causing the ghost to transform into a woman, who touches his face as black tears come from one of her eyes the ghost looks into a mirror that cracks, and it transforms into its ghostly appearance again, screaming, jumps on the children as their mother enters the attic and is choked and thrown across the room and then a man is choked and thrown across the room the woman stabs the shrieking ghost in the heart with a crucifix, its flesh disintegrates and we see a skull crumble and black tar whirl off the ghost until the figure disappears entirely, leaving some tar on the floor. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Spanish without translation. Also with Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Roman Christou, Tony Amendola and Sean Patrick Thomas.

The family can only survive if a former priest (Raymond Cruz) is willing to do something unorthodox about it.

Horror movie based on a Latin American folk tale: In 1973 Los Angeles the murderous ghost La Llorona (Marisol Ramirez) stalks children and when a troubled mother (Patricia Velásquez) warns a social worker (Linda Cardellini) about the spirit, then the social worker’s children are also stalked.

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Why is “The Curse of La Llorona” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence and terror.” The evaluation includes a couple of scenes of the murder of children, many scenes of encounters with a creepy ghost that causes property damage and injuries to people with some blood, and some exclamations.

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