Review #3776: Grimm 2.9: “La Llarona”
Contributor: John Keegan
Written by Akela Cooper
Directed by Holly Dale
One would think that Halloween would be the perfect opportunity for a series like “Grimm” to up the ante and really embrace its horror genre trappings. Granted, the show is more of a procedural with ever-strengthening genre elements, but there is a significant amount of horror involved.
Instead of going with amped-up bloodletting, “Grimm” goes for something a bit closer to traditional Halloween fare: the ghost story. In this case, the Spanish version of the “Lady in White”, La Llarona. This is not the alluring version that, for instance, raised eyebrows in the series premiere of “Supernatural”, but instead, a woman seeking to sacrifice young children in an attempt to get her own children back (so to speak).
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Mirrored from Critical Myth.