Riveting Guatemalan drama La Llorona, premiering on Shudder, continues a rich tradition of horror with a political message, from Night of the Living Dead to Get OutAs cinemas tentatively reopen, many of the year’s best films continue to forsake them in favour of streaming – sometimes popping up in highly unpredictable places.
If you aren’t a hardcore devotee of horror film, chances are you don’t have a subscription to Shudder, a fine genre platform with programming that often stretches beyond the expected slash-and-scream territory.
If so, you’re missing out on a remarkable new film from Guatemala that is exclusively streaming there.
Much acclaimed on the festival circuit last year, Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona may burrow under your skin with unsettling atmospherics, but it has as much to offer arthouse patrons as it does horrorheads in its adherence to a tradition of horror cinema with a real-world political undercurrent.
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