

With the camera lingering on still moments between them – the sound of buzzing bugs in the background clashing against the silence – the film establishes this tremendous dread. The stress in Tommy’s voice when trying to speak to or connect with his wife creates a heartbreaking air, an element that is only intensified as Rose strives to keep their spark alive. Part of the film’s uneasiness comes through in silence when Rose and Tommy are together, the silence between them is sad. When Tommy ( Andrew Creer) returns home to his wife Rose ( Emily Van Raay), one can sense a distance between the two we are never given context as to how long Tommy has been away for, but the audience is able to grasp that these two are struggling in their relationship. While this is a prominent part of the film, Hurt has a lot more going for it beyond this – particularly, it has a lot of emotional dread that makes for uncomfortable tension. The subjects of the Conjuring films, supernatural investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, are linked to pretty much everything that happens in the wider cinematic world, and it’s in the Conjuring films that we witness their experiences first hand.Directed by Sonny Mallhi, written by Mallhi and Solomon Gray, Hurt’s general premise involves a solider returning home to his wife, and when both go to one of their favorite Halloween haunts, an evil follows them home. Michael Chaves is making his directorial debut with The Curse Of La Llorona, but James Wan clearly sees a bright future for the American filmmaker, as he’s placed The Conjuring 3 in Chaves’s hands.

The Curse Of La Llorona‘s director is taking the helm of The Conjuring 3 next The ‘Weeping Woman’ myth inspired La Llorona’s horrifying image, with black tears streaming from her eyes – only this time, she’s travelled from her Mexican home to Los Angeles, where she preys on social worker Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda Cardellini, of Green Mile and Avengers fame) and her two children. The Curse Of La Llorona is inspired by a traditional Mexican ghost story about a woman who drowns her two children in a fit of rage, then spends eternity sobbing over their passing and taking out her supernatural wrath on other families. It’s rooted in an iconic Mexican folk tale
