"Once there was a poor girl who loved a rich man. She killed her children to be with this man. She drowned them in a river, now the water is their grave. While some say she still walks down by the river, you can hear at night crying for her dead children. Searching for other children. Do not go out after dark mijos, do not go. Even after death she found no rest. Heaven would not take her, she was damned for all time to wander the earth, searching for her dead children. Now they call her by a different name. La Llorona."

DESCRIPTION

Explore the chilling legend of pain and anguish as your ears succumb to the petrifying screams of a woman consumed by the dreadful guilt of drowning her children and then herself. Doomed to wander the Earth for eternity, La Llorona will stop at nothing to find the souls of her murdered children. Relive the trauma that has haunted and terrified the hours of dark throughout the Americas for over 500 years, as you embark on a spine-chilling journey through the rotting remains of a haunted Mexican village. Beware, for those who hear the wails of La Llorona are marked for death!

TRIVIA

1. La Llorona started off as a scarezone in 2010. Said scarezone was a last minute replacement for a scrapped one called KillerZ.

2.  John Murdy personally disliked the scarezone, as he didn't have time to flesh out the characters and surroundings. However, the positive reaction guests had toward the character convinced John Murdy that it should return the following year as a house.

3. Murdy thought this maze's set design was one of the best they have ever done but that it could have been scarier.

4. The Biggest fear with this maze was cultural appropriation since it wasn’t a story the Team grew up with but according to them they did our research and didn’t hold anything back.

5. Murdy loved that this House had a Mostly Female Cast.

6. They worked with actor Diego Luna on this House.

7. John Murdy said that the facade of this house was one of his favorites.

8. Murdy didn’t grow up with La Llorona so he consulted with a lot of different people & read scores of different versions of the legend from various parts of the southwest & Latin America. The basic core of the story in all the versions was extremely dark & Murdy and team didn’t shy away from that. He also did a ton of research on southwestern/Latin American architecture, clothing, & other elements from that time period. Production designer Chris took all that & came up with an eerily beautiful scenic design for the maze.

9. All of the Pictures in the Maze are from One of the Lead Prop Guys's (Mercher) Family History.

10. The Facade for this house was inspired by the "Mission San Francisco De La Espada" church in San Antonio, Texas. John Murdy liked the design because it looked like a face.

11. The 3 Children in the Opening Scene are La Llorona's 3 Dead Children.

12. The Statue Hallway was inspired by Murdy's Childhood of growing up as a Catholic Altar Boy and wandering around the Church he went to late at night with Statues.

13. One of the Living Statues in the Statue Hallway is from A Nightmare on Elm Street: Never Sleep Again.

14. The Entrance to the Graveyard is inspired by the Look of an Arch at the Mission San Francisco De La Espada.

15. This House takes you into Maria's Crypt in one section. Maria is the name of the beautiful woman who drowns her children in the story.

16. Guests would walk over actual water in this house, though it was only a few inches deep.

17. John Murdy included a giant La Llorona sculpt eating a child in the maze because he found a story that referred to La Llorona as "an eater of children". He took that phrase literally in the maze.

18. Has the honor of being one of the first original houses at HHN Hollywood.

La Llorona is hands down one of my favorite houses of all time. I’d argue that the 2011 and 2012 renditions were much better than 2022 version at the Parisian Courtyard; something about the Shrek 4D (now DreamWorks Theater) location worked for that house. The house was beautiful to look at and had equally terrifying performers.

Here are other HHN Hollywood spotlights I’ve covered in the past:

\[Clowns 3D with Music by Slash\](https://www.reddit.com/r/HHN/s/IFFVaTSeTo)

\[This Is The End 3D, 2015\](https://www.reddit.com/r/HHN/s/lGoozIkq0i)

\[Krampus, 2016\](https://www.reddit.com/r/HHN/s/uMvLOkE0C1)

\[Crimson Peak: Maze of Madness\](https://www.reddit.com/r/HHN/s/wRuApKLaTf)

house spotlight — La Llorona: Villa de Almas Perdidas