The Guatemalan genocide, or the “silent holocaust,” is the setting for director and writer Jayro Bustamante’s new film La Llorona–not to be confused ...

La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, is one of the most well-known figures in Latin American folklore. The details of her origins may differ, but the general co...

02/09/2019 - VENECIA 2019: Jayro Bustamante evoca el genocidio en Guatemala usando los códigos de las películas de fantasmas en su tercer largometraje pres...

Horror is woven into political drama in La Llorona, the riveting Golden Globe Foreign Language Film nominee and shortlisted International Feature Oscar conte...

'The Weeping Woman' ('La Llorona'), Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante’s study of an addled old dictator who is acquitted of genocide but not forgiven by...

Sundance: The brilliant Guatemalan director of "Tremors" and "Ixcanul" returns with a darkly atmospheric story of spiritual trauma.

Director Jayro Bustamante sets the story of the 'wailing woman' of lore in a Guatemala reckoning with its legacy of violence against Indigenous people.

The Weeping Woman returns in a thoughtfully creepy Guatemalan movie in which real-life terrors commingle with genre frights.

Jayro's Bustamante's foray into horror grounds itself amid the genocide of the indigenous people. Our La Llorona review:

This version of La Llorona finds new emotional ground. It’s not just a creepy story, but a painful reflection of injustice.

A dispatch from Sundance on two new international horror films. 

Damn, I’d like to have seen this one with an audience, in a re-opened cinema. Yes, the only reason to interview filmmaker Jayro Bustamente would be to ask ...

'La Llorona' borrows a page out of Latin American folklore for a genuinely disturbing ghost story about guilt and genocide. Our review.

The acquittal of a former Guatemalan general unleashes a vengeful spirit upon his household

Ever since Hannah Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, it’s been a phrase oft-used in an attempt to de...

The title may conjure up the supernatural, but this shrewd film contemplates the actual genocide perpetrated against Guatemala's indigenous population

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Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante’s taut, effective new horror film finds new ways to spin an old legend.

Jayro Bustamante returns with a modern spin on the eponymous Latin American legend, shot through with horror and political rage.