Actress Linda Cardellini, who plays the role of the mother who goes up against La Llorana in The Curse of the Weeping Woman, says she couldn't resist the complex hero at the heart of the horror film. That's the reason she said yes to the project.

"When I read the script, I loved that it was not about being someone's wife or being someone's sister. It's really about this woman who is fighting the odds to keep her family together, and the lengths she's willing to go to protect her children," Cardellini said in a statement.