Movie Review: J-ok'el: Curse of the Weeping Woman

Uh oh, I went and did it again. I rented a horror flick solely based on how cool the DVD case looked.
J-ok'el: Curse of the Weeping Woman, looked like a wicked scary movie though! On the cover of the DVD you have a sick looking woman monster vampire type creature, with her mouth gaping open displaying a nice sharp rack of pearly whites as if she is about to eat you, or bite your finger off dare you touch it.

The cover of the case though was never even a scene in the movie. In fact you will never see such a hideous scary looking creature. The box art was basically thrown on there to interest you enough to buy it.

Plot:
 
Anyhow, J-ok'el: Curse of the Weeping Woman starts off with a Spanish woman running through the woods with her two sons in hand. It appears that she is running from someone, or something in a haste. Suddenly the woman makes it to the edge of a lake, where she sits down and begins to cry. She is comforting her boys by telling them everything will be alright, they will be fine. Then for no reason at all, (or at least no reason you can see) she looks down and the boys are dead.

She screams or weeps, and thus the legend of the weeping woman is born.

The movie itself is done in Spanglish, where more than 80% of the flick is done in English, a good 20% is done in Spanish. Fear not though, English subtitles will play at the bottom of the screen whenever the language is switched over.

Anyhow, after the introduction, you are then thrown into the modern day, where a man by the name of George comes down to Chiapas, Mexico to search for his missing sister.

The deeper he gets into his little hunt and find mystery, he finds that he is not the only one who lost a child, that many children from the area have turned up missing. As he gets even deeper into his hunt, he hears people claiming that J-ok'el has taken the children. He thinks the whole legend of J-ok'el is crap, and instead of seeking out the legend he goes chasing after ...well...a whole lot of nothing.

Supposedly J-ok'el was the woman we saw in the opening scene of the movie. We also learn that she went crazy and drowned her 2 children after her husband left her. Now the J-ok'el is back and she is stealing children who come from broken homes.

All in all the more the movie went on, the more boring it became. The majority of the time you watch as an idiot joins forces with another idiot looking for missing children, yet not till the very end do they decide to visit the lake that surrounds the legend of J-ok'el to look for the missing children.

Then the ending comes along in a much too fast pow in your face type of way, and it manages to make this flick even more terrible than it had to be, and when I say terrible I don't mean in a scary, oh my God I cannot believe that happened, kind of way. I mean so awfully terrible that you wish you never even watched the flick to begin with.

Overall:
 
J-ok'el: Curse of the Weeping Woman was a boring waste of time. A bad start, finishes with an awfully stupid ending.