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Children have
been reported missing on a daily basis
recently in a small town and two detectives are trying
to figure out what's going on. They find out about the
legend of La Llorona, the crying woman, a Mexican woman
who killed her children when her husband left her.
Could this Latino legend have something to do with the
recent disappearances?
This is the fifth horror flick that centres around the
Mexican legend of La Llorona that I've seen in less
than a year. So far not a single one of them have
impressed me and after having seen The Cry, I'm now
certain that it's not possible to make a good and
creepy horror flick based on this legend. I don't know
if you've noticed but recently I've been slacking off
with writing reviews for DTV horror flicks. Why? Well
it's just so tedious to watch tons and tons of rubbish
only to find one half-decent movie every once in a while.
I actually have a list of at least 40 upcoming and
recently released horror flicks that I have to watch
and it's movies like this that really put me off.
It's easy to make a comment like "The Cry is so bad
that it makes you want to cry" but here's a movie so
plain and so ridiculously flat that it actually
deserves cheap gag-lines like that. I'm not going to
go through the story again as we've all seen it so
many times before - La Llorona takes over random
mothers bodies and forces them to kill their children,
same old same old. Though there's something different
this time; in order to kill La Llorona you have to
poke her eyes out (or something like that). Well guess
what? That's right, I'm gonna say it - The Cry will
make you want to poke your own eyes out before you get
to the big reveal because it's so mind-numbingly dull.
Calling The Cry a horror flick really is a stretch.
It's not very long (it only runs for 74 minutes and
then has like 10 minutes of end credits patched onto
it) but it sure as hell is long enough to put you to
sleep. It's a drama about a stiff and boring detective
trying to cope with his past. Yikes! It's almost
identical to the crappy Mexican horror flick "J-ok'el"
which is like the worst possible inspiration you could
have for a horror flick. What boggled me was how
technically competent it looked. This didn't look like
a DTV effort, it actually looked like it belonged at
film festivals. So how come a script so boring that it
makes you wonder whether or not this was actually
written by a bored high-school teacher looking for
some excitement gets such high production values (to
be fair, the script was written by two women which
unfortunately explains a lot - not to sound sexistic
but statistically women just can't make a solid horror
flick if their lives depended on it).
Anyway, I'm not gonna ramble on much longer about this
tedious piece of rubbish. It's not that it's an awful
movie, it's just that it so boring that you have to
pinch yourself just to make sure that you're still
awake. I have tons of more crap to watch today so I'm
just going to go ahead and do that and forget that this
movie ever existed.
Apparently, if you slash someone’s throat right open,
it will leave a gory wound but there will be no blood
running out of it.
Sorry but I can't be bothered. It stunk.
If you like a good horror flick about La Llorona, you'll
have to keep looking. KM31 may have been mediocre but
this was just so mind-numbingly boring that it has to
be seen to be believed. Don't bother.
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