Sometimes it’s just raining, but more subtle scenes begin with percolating coffee or dripping faucets as if the world is weeping with her. Chaves does, however, draw out a water motif to signal whenever La Llorona is coming. Writers Tobia Iaconis and Mikki Daughtry, who previously wrote the teen romance “Five Feet Apart,” don’t give director Michael Chaves much to work with. According to the folktales - La Llorona is a real Mexican legend - she drowned her children many centuries ago and now wanders the Earth, weeping for her lost children and looking for new ones to replace them with. Taking a welcome break from the killer porcelain doll movies, this “ The Conjuring” spin-off has a properly creepy villain in La Llorona. Such is the case with “The Curse of La Llorona.” All the tropes have lined up for this one: unholy spirits, cursed little girls, frenzied single mothers and chaotic exorcisms. For decades, horror movies have replicated the hard work “The Exorcist” did in 1973 to produce one sleek but soulless thrill ride after another.
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