Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el(2007)
Do you hear the whisper?
An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico; at the behest of his estranged mother when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el, the weeping woman, who drowned her own babies, centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own.
Movie: Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
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