La Llorona
One of those great genre films which scarcely needs that genre injection. The tale of a war criminal facing up to his crimes in the courts and in the media, and his lockdowned family caught in the crosshairs. It's certainly 'horror' enough without the supernatural element. 269
But because it does have it, it is of course made to be even better.
Scares (and jumps) are rightly deemed inappropriate, so what we have instead is a measured build in dread and doubt, but also a film which deftly plays with haunted house film conventions. The way this film depicted a crowd to be like a otherworldy horde was just beautiful. Shades of those <PERSON> supporters outside shops a few weeks back.
Shudder is on a roll again right now with their originals (if you don't include that whitewashed 80's wankfest documentary of course). So please more of this sort of thing and IMPETIGORE and SATAN'S SLAVES and HOST.
And much much less of the <PERSON> and <PERSON> witterings about bygone eras. 475