It finally arrived in the Mail, so naturally yours truly had to
hunker down on the couch last evening and watch it…..as if there was
any doubt!! Here, then, is my review of “The Wailer”…aka “La Llorona”.
Well, it starts off pretty much as one might expect…..6 young people, 3 guys and 3 girls roaming about the Mexican countryside…..but not until after a lil’ flashback where a sexy…but somewhat insane… Mexican beauty murders her two sweet children by drowning…..all in the mistaken idea that it would somehow please her lover into accepting her advances. He’s less than receptive to the whole notion….and cutting him with a big knife doesn’t score her any points either…..so of course things end badly with her getting killed and disposed of in a suitably mysterious fashion to cover up the whole horrible crime….