A bad combination of both makes a bad movie, which this is. The plot is a hot mess while the characters are very shallow and they all seem to be vying for the most disliked person award. The ending does not make any sense whatsoever.

A definite pass for me.

The story is quite predictable and yet there are also parts where it is confusing and contradicting. *spoilers* if the lore goes that only people who have cheated can see La Patasola, how come James could see her in the tent at first? Then later, when Sarah kills Naomi, how is it that all of a sudden she can see La Patasola too? She didn't cheat. If La Patasola only hunts those who cheat, why is she hunting Sarah and James? Assuming that at least Sarah didn't cheat, because she couldn't see her before. The whole thing is severely underexplained, contradicting and contains too many cliches. Lacks good scares or any kind of good build up. Wouldn't reccomend unless you have nothing better to do.

Right, well of course I hadn't even heard about this 2022 horror movie titled "The Curse of La Patasola" from writers AJ Jones and Shaun Mathis. But still, since it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to sit down and watch it.

Needless to say that I wasn't harboring much of any high hopes from director AJ Jones given the movie's fairly low rating here on IMDb. But still, the movie might actually be something that entertained me, despite of having obviously not entertained many others before me.

Well, "The Curse of La Patasola" was a very, very bland and generic horror movie. So you are not in for a particularly grand horror experience when and if you sit down to watch this 2022 horror movie. The storyline seems to borrow somewhat from tales as La Llorona for example, which paints "The Curse of La Patasola" in a somewhat rip-off light.

Sure, I managed to sit through the entire movie, though I was only slightly entertained. The movie just didn't come off as being particularly interesting in terms of originality, storyline, characters and dialogue. It was all something that was very generic for the horror genre in general.

Visually then "The Curse of La Patasola" was okay. The movie doesn't make use of a lot of special effects, but the creature itself was adequate. And while it did count for something, it just wasn't enough to make up for the shortcomings and mediocrity that is "The Curse of La Patasola".

I wasn't familiar with the cast in the movie, and it was a shame that they didn't really have much to work with in terms of script, characters, dialogue and such. Of all the performances in the movie, it was Najah Bradley (playing Naomi) that stood out as the best and most memorable.

My rating of "The Curse of La Patasola" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.