However, I used to think horror movies were a bad idea for everyone. I have not seen this movie one and am not planning on it. I also usually avoid them although I’ve made a few exceptions for movie reviews and to accompany my teenage children once. She told me she doesn’t like scary movies. Will Cogan go to see the movie? Probably not. As things become desperate, she begs for help from a former priest, Rafael Olvera, who agrees to join forces with her against evil. Patricia was actually protecting them from La Llorona, who was then able to get them. As a result, Anna has the boys taken into protective custody.

When making a social work visit to the home of Patricia Velasquez, she mistakenly thinks that finding her two young sons in a closet is abusive.

The Weeping Woman comes back in 1973 in Los Angeles and into the life of social worker, Anna Tate-Garcia, a widowed mother of two young children. Warner Brothers has updated this legend in a horror movie, The Curse of La Llorona. Children were told stories so we would follow the rules.” By college, she and her friends would joke with one another, “Be careful, I hear La Llorona is out there.” “I honestly thought it was real when I was a girl. “My white friends never heard of La Llorona but everyone in the Hispanic community knows this story,” she said. “She would point out the back story-they were not following the Church and ended up doing bad things.” Cogan now lives in Minnesota with her husband and their children, a daughter 21 and son 17. “My grandmother was a spiritual leader in the family and made sure everything led back to the Church,” Cogan said.

Now, it is told, she roams the earth trying to replace her lost children by kidnapping others. Realizing the horror of what she had just done, she hurled herself after them. After catching her husband with another woman, in a jealous rage, she drowned their two children. One of the stories was The Curse of La Llorona-the Weeping Woman-about a woman trapped between heaven and hell by her misdeeds. “They usually had lessons attached,” she explained. As a little girl growing up in Taos, New Mexico, Monica Cogan sat on her Catholic grandmother’s lap and listened to stories of Spanish folklore.

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