La Llorona (1933 film)

La Llorona (The Crying Woman) is a 1933 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Ramón Peón and starring Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Adriana Lamar and Carlos Orellana. It is based on the legend of La Llorona. It is the first Mexican horror film.[3]

La Llorona
Directed byRamón Peón
Story by
Starring
Music byMax Urbán[2]
CinematographyGuillermo Baqueriza[2]
Edited byGuillermo Baqueriza[2]
Production
company
Eco Films[2]
Release date
  • May 25, 1933 (1933-05-25) (Mexico)
Running time
73 minutes[2]
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

Setting is Mexico. Maria is La Llorana “the crier”

Maria is poor but marries a wealthy man. She is quickly neglected as her husband pays more attention to the two sons than she. Out of a blind, passion filled rage, she drowns her two children.

She then kills herself. Yet she couldn't escape the horrors of what she did. She is trapped between life and death, crying out for her children. As a ghost she searches for the sons she drowned, unable to escape from earth to heaven until she finds them.

Cast
  • Ramón Pereda as Dr. Ricardo de Acuna / Capitán Diego de Acuna
  • Virginia Zurí as Ana Maria de Acuna
  • Carlos Orellana as Mario - criado
  • Adriana Lamar as Ana Xiconténcatl
  • Alberto Martí as Rodrigo de Cortés - Marqués del Valle
  • Esperanza del Real as Nana Goya
  • Paco Martínez as Don Fernando de Moncada

Production

In the 1930s, a cycle of horror films began.[4] La Llorona was one of the 21 sound films created in Mexico in 1933.[4] The film's story is based on that of La llorona, a crying woman from Hispanic folklore who mourns her dead child.[5]

Release

La Llorona premièred in Mexico on 25 May 1933.[2]

Legacy

Following the release of La Llorona, Guillermo Calles was selected to direct the short feature La Chillona, a parody of La Llorona.[6][7] All that remains of this film is magazine illustrations and a lobby card poster advertising a program at the Cinelandia Theater.[7]

gollark: Tired of being Muslim? Stop being Muslim™.
gollark: Someone who worships Athe.
gollark: "hmm yes we must do these things because someone 2000 years ago said so and they claimed that god said so, just like several thousand other people"
gollark: Religions are, in my opinion, generally quite dumb.
gollark: yes.

References

Citations
  1. Cotter 2005, p. 15.
  2. "Llorona, La" (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  3. La Llorona (1933 film), .braineater.com
  4. Rhodes 2003, p. 94.
  5. Rhodes 2003, p. 95.
  6. Agrasánchez, Jr. 2010, p. 102.
  7. Agrasánchez, Jr. 2010, p. 103.

Sources
  • Agrasánchez, Jr., Rogelio (2010). Guillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer. McFarland. ISBN 0786456485.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Rhodes, Gary D. (2003). "Fantasmas del cine Mexicano: the 1930s horror film cycle of Mexico". In Schneider, Steven Jay (ed.). Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe. FAB Press. ISBN 1-903254-15-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Cotter, Robert Michael Bobb (2005). The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 0786441046.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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