La llorona

Described on screen as "A Modern-Day Version of the Popular Legend", sadly this is one of those films that looks far more promising on paper than it is to actually watch.

For obvious reasons it wasn't until the introduction of sound before the story could be done justice on the screen. Mexico's answer to the banshee has perennially provided material for the cinema right up to the present day, and the character of Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter novels probably continues the tradition.

Bookended by two remarkably graphic scenes depicting corpses with their eyes open, unfortunately nearly half the film is devoted to swordplay rather than the phantom, which doesn't actually appear until the film has already been on for nearly forty minutes - almost half it's running time - and then gets lost in a welter of plots including a sinister hooded figure, the identity of whom when finally revealed admittedly really proves something!