La Leyenda de la Llorona

**La Leyenda de la Llorona** is the second film in the *La Leyenda Saga*. The film was produced by Ánima Estudios and Eficine 226, and was distributed by Videocine. The film was also released in the United States by Lionsgate Films and Pantelion Films. The film is avabile for purchase on Amazon Video, YouTube Movies and iTunes.

## Synopsis

### Overview

Much like its predecessor, La Leyenda de la Llorona is a 2-D animated horror-comedy film staring Leo San Juan, who has greatly matured since the events in the old Manor in 1807. The film deals with the legend of the Llorona, a monster of Mexican folklore that kidnaps children to make up for the lost of her own. Notably, the film starts off almost exactly where the last one ended, making the two extremely closely connected.

### Plot

The film starts off with two young siblings, Kika & Beto trick-or-treating in a neighborhood. Kika complains that they're only getting fruits, not candy and demands her brother to look as if he's starving to gain the pathos of the treat givers. Beto is very respectful to those who gave them treats, while Kika throws a temper tantrum and decides to trick or treat without him. Hearing the Llorona approaching, Beto calls out the witch and runs away, luring the witch towards him as to save his sister from her terror. Kika, now noticing her brothers dropped bag of treats realizes something went horribly awry and begins searching for him. She finds him at the other side of a river and begs him to cross over. Beto however takes a stand and is whisked away by Llorona, saving his sister in the process.

The film then cuts to Leo San Juan and his traveling companions: Don Andrés, Alebrije and Finado and Moribunda. They're still sailing to Xochimilco, as they were in the ending of *La Leyenda de la Nahuala*, meaning the film takes place in 1808. Leo wishes Xóchitl where with them, to which Teodora Villavicencio barges in, insulting the group and changes her outfit from a traditional, if fancy Spanish dress to a more contemporary outfit, complete with sunglasses and all and leaves almost as soon as she came. Afterwards, a massive thunderstorm appears out of nowhere as the Llorona moans ***WOE IS MY CHILDREN***. Shortly after, Leo is knocked off the balloon and while his friends try to save him, their efforts are in vain. Only moments later, the Balloon is struck down by lighting, causing the entire group to land in different points.

San Juan wakes up at Kika's house under her and Beto's mother's care. The mother, Rosa, tells him a story of La Llorona, whose name was actually Yoltzin instead of María. Yoltzin moved to Xochimilco with her two kids: Ollin and Tonatiuh. She sold flowers to provide for her family and became well-liked in the village. Everything changed one day when they were coming back home to find their house on fire. Yoltzin jumped off the boat, desperate to save the house, but forgot her kids on the boat, which drifted away with them still on board. When she realized that they were floating away, it was too late and they disappeared without a trace. Villagers helped her searching for the kids. Days later, though, Ollin and Tonatiuh were found dead near a channel, possibly due to drowning and their bodies must have washed up onshore. Yoltzin didn't accept her children's death. She was driven crazy with grief and remorse and died, with having nothing left to live for. After her death, the villagers started to hear ghostly moans. Yoltzin had become La Llorona, a specter who came out at night to kidnap children, though with no intent to harm them; rather, she seemed to want to take care of them, maybe to make up for failing to take care of her own children or actually believing they are her children. Padre Tello followed La Llorona for years, trying to find out how to appease La Llorona until he disappeared. San Juan leaves Kika's house to find his friends and figures out the mystery of where Beto and the other kidnapped kids are with help of Padre Tello's journal. Kika follows him, telling Leo that he needs her. La Llorona attacks Leo and Kika, injuring Leo, but Kika helps him and listens to his plans to find the old church where Ollin and Tonatiuh's graves are. Padre Tello's book says that "Yoltzin has to see" the graves to be at peace. Once again, Leo and Kika are chased by La Llorona, but this time Kika is kidnapped and Leo loses her trail.

Meanwhile, at Isla de las Muñecas (Doll's Island), Andres is tangled in vines. After a lot of screaming, he is rescued from the puppets by Alebrije, who was all covered in green slime after falling in the lake and mistaken for a monster. Andres and Alebrije free an old man from a cursed hand puppet named Pecas, who was animated by the tears of La Llorona, who had previously cried at the creek and had been forcing the old man to make puppets for her. The old man thanks them and tells them where to find La Llorona.

Leo San Juan asks Teodora to help him seek La Llorona and distract her while he looks for the old church where Yoltzin's kids were buried. Leo goes into a sunken church, and inside he finds Kika and other kids sleeping. He sees that La Llorona has been taking care of them and that they were unharmed. He runs deep down in the church until he finds the church's crypt and searches for Ollin and Tonatiuh's graves. He finds a broken part of the kids' graves when he's looking for his dropped necklace (with a picture of his deceased mother inside) and puts it back into the grave, fixing it. Kika angers La Llorona, telling her to let the other kids go, and she almost has her soul taken by La Llorona but Leo saves her. La Llorona grabs Leo and starts taking his soul, causing him to pass out, then captures his friends by animating vines that had overtaken the sunken church. When she is about to hurt them, Leo calls out to her and shows her child's name in the grave. When La Llorona sees their names, she begins to see the unconscious Leo and Kika as her children, dead. Overcome with guilt, she collapses to her knees and cries. However, all the tombstones begin to glow and Ollin and Tonatiuh appear. She is reunited with her kids and thanks Leo for his help. Leo sees his mother one last time while he is unconscious. Soon, all of them (except Leo) depart from the living world and go to the world of the dead. Other kidnapped children wake up including Beto. Back in the village Leo and his friends say farewell to the villagers, then get ready to go back to their hometown when Padre Godofredo's ghost appears and urges them to help another town in distress. He explains that Xochitl, a friend of theirs, who had also helped them before, was taken captive by mummies in Guanajuato. They then sail off to Guanajuato in order to save her

## Voice Cast

*Main article: List of Characters*
* Yair Prado: Leo San Juan
* Rafael Inclan: Alebrije
	+ Carlos Del Campo: Alebrije when doing his guide voice
* Andres Couturier: Don Andrés Artasánchez & Pujo
* Monica Del Carmen: Kika
* Mayté Cordeiro: Teodora Villavicencio
* Rosario Zuniga: Rosa
* Mercedes Hernandez & Rocio Lara: La Llorona (Yoltzin)
* Miguel Couturier: Friar Godofredo & Willy
* Jesús Guzmán: Finado & Pecas
* Romina Marroquin: Moribunda
* Erick Canete: Beto
* Valeria Russek: Mrs. San Juan
* Humberto Solorzano: Father Tella & Tiro

## Credits

### Producers

* Fernando de Fuentes
* José C. García de Letona

### Writers

* Omar Mustre
* Alberto Rodriguez
* Ricardo Arnaíz
* Jesús Guzmán

### Animators

* Adriana Trani García
* Alejandro Martinez Espinoza
* Alejando Reyes
* Carlos Abugaber
* Christian Salcido Preciat
* Eduardo Walles Martínez
* Eric David Cabello Díaz
* Heidy Pozos Villa
* Jorge Arellano
* Laura Medina
* Liliana Elizabeth Roscón Mena
* Luis Fernado Bañuelos
* Miryam Téllez Schmill
* Salavador Velasco Truiillo

### Additional Animation

* Copernicus Studios
* Laughing Lion Animation
* Matias Kopistinki Luque
* Hugo Enrique Rojas Cisneros
* Alejando Ortega Chavez
* Estella Neri R
* Ricardo Garcia Hernadez
* Salvador Quan Kiu Aceves
* Edgar Martinez

### Animation Supervisors

* Alberto Mar Mancilla
* Christian Salcido Preciat
* Eric David Cabello Díaz
* Liliana Elizabeth Roscón Mena
* Alejandro Reyes

### 3D Animation

* Laughing Lion Animation
* Kishore Balaji
* Yuvraj Naik

### Roughs

* Eric David Cabello Díaz
* Ariel Orea
* Rafael Luna

### Art Department

* Fondos Maestros
* Francisco de la Cruz

### Character Designers

* Emma L. Hernadez Flores
* Gustavo A. Cosio Herrera

### Conceptualization

* Rosa Maria Campos Cruz (Conceptualization of Kika)

### Character Mapping and Color

* Gustavo A. Cosio Herrera
* Gustavo Cardenas Bautista

### Funds Supervisors

* Francisco de la Cruz
* Virginia Segovia

### Art Funders

* Enrique Aceves Sanchez
* Gabriel Vera Barcena
* Gustavo Cardenas Bautista
* Jesus Juan Francisco Moncayo
* Leonardo Martinez
* Lilia Cristina Marin Martinez
* Patricia Cardenas Bautista
* Rafael A. Gonzales Trujano
* Rosa Maria Compos Cruz
* Teresa Clark
* Aurea Freniere
* Ulises Jesus Rios Garcia

### Prop Artist

* Antonio Hernadez Romero
* Fernando Caballero Peza
* Karina Elizalde
* Rafael Orea Garcia Rojas

### Colorist

* Dafne Trevino
* Fernando Cabellero
* Francisco Chirino
* Genaro Lopez Rebollo
* Gonzalo Soria
* Jonathan Carpio
* Oscar Gutierrez

### Compositors

* Arturo Alex Orendain Ruiz
* Antonio Gomez Maldonado
* Armando Medina Guerrero
* Guillermo Carrera Aguirre
* Hector Alarcon Vazques
* Jorge Alberto Barrios Hernadez
* Jose Carlos Anaya Juarez
* Julian Narvaez Cuellar
* Michel Sanabia Castillo
* Marcel Tojo Zaragoita

### Pre-Armed

* Carlos Leonel Vilchis Zapata
* Diego Motta
* Elias Orozco Correa
* Luis Daniel Ramirez
* Luis Jorge Medina
* Omar Espinosa Rojas
* Paulina Arivee Zanabaria Guadalajara
* Panfilo Larios

### Storyboarders

* Mauricio Cabellero Peza (Supervisor)
* Victor Hernadez Martinez
* Marco Antonio Castellanos Ruiz
* Adriana Garcia Sanchez
* Gustavo Cosio
* Hector A. Mange Schettino
* Ivan Barrera Gonzales
* Javier Gomez
* Juan Cristobal Alvarez
* Leonel Garcia Gil
* Oscar E. Orellana Moreno
* Pedro Manuel Flores Silva
* Rafael A. Gonzales Trujano
* Ricardo Vazquez Bautista
* Sergio Hernadez Carrillo
* Victor Lovera

### Animatics

* Jorge Alberto Orta Gomez
* David Jonathan Vazquez Barrientos
* Magali Ocana Salazar
* Miguel Angel Orozco

## Gallery

*Main article: La Leyenda de la Llorona/Gallery*