The story sees the return of the vengeful spirit La Llorona, forcing a fractured family to confront their past and join forces with their estranged grandfather to battle ancient evils and stop the Weeping Woman before she claims their children forever.<\/p>\n
Taking the directorial reins from The Curse of La Llorona\u2019s Michael Chaves (The Conjuring: The Last Rites) for Revenge is filmmaker Santiago Menghini<\/a>, who made his feature debut with 2021 horror movie\u00a0No One Gets Out Alive.<\/a><\/p>\n James Wan, Gary Dauberman, and Emile Gladstone are also back among the producing team.<\/p>\n Sean Tretta, who is working with Wan on the filmmaker\u2019s Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/a> feature at Universal, wrote the script for The Revenge of La Llorona.<\/p>\n The Curse of La Llorona was a surprise breakout hit when it released in 2019, grossing $123 million worldwide despite a lackluster critical reception. That\u2019s of note as this sequel was shelved multiple times, even as recently as early 2024. THR\u2019s sources speculate that the massive success of Final Destination Bloodlines<\/a> may have instilled confidence in horror sequels\u2019 ability to perform with audiences.<\/p>\n The original film took place in 1973 Los Angeles, and followed Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda Cardellini), a social worker and widowed single mom struggling to balance the two roles while still coping with the loss of her husband. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, she and her own kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.<\/p>\n \u2018The Curse of La Llorona\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sequel to 2019\u2019s The Curse of La Llorona, titled\u00a0The Revenge of La Llorona, is finally underway as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,55120,409,111,139,69,55121,55122,55123,55124],"class_list":["post-68979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jay-hernandez","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-raymund-cruz","tag-santiago-menghini","tag-the-curse-of-la-llorona","tag-the-revenge-of-la-llorona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rev-1-CHIL-04470rBv2_High_Res_JPEG.jpeg\")
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