La Llorona
There are multiple movies titled after the weeping folk-horror figure who prowls around bodies of water, but this 2019 Guatemalan release—which made the shortlist for the Best International Feature Film Oscar—is the version most likely to set up shop, rent-free, in your nightmares. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s María Mercedes Coroy stars as a mysterious Indigenous woman hired to work in the home of an elderly former dictator (accurately) accused of genocide. Though this story is fictional, the historical context is real, which only heightens the horror throughout. (Stream on Shudder)
