J-ok'el is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 thriller of 2007, directed by Benjamin Williams. Who deviated from the usual stories about spirits showing an ending where the good guy do not always win and many lit environments, in a narrative designed to surprise connoisseurs of the genre. This film is William's debut.

Plot

An american man travels to a small town in Chiapas

Chiapas

Chiapas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas is one of the 31 states that, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 118 municipalities and its capital city is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Other important cites in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las...

, Mexico called San Cristobal de las Casas

San Cristóbal de las Casas

San Cristóbal de las Casas also known as it's native Tsotsil name, Jovel is a city and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas...

, to help his mother when he know that his stepsister has been abduced. Everything indicates that it is a wave of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el (Weeping Woman). Woman who drowned her children ever ago and whose spirit has returned to take other children and thus forget their own suffering.

Awards

The film won gold medal for best music in the Park City Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Trivia

J-ok'el means "weeping woman" in Tzotzil

Tzotzil language

Tzotzil is a Maya language spoken by the indigenous Tzotzil Maya people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. According to an INEGI 2005 census, there are 329,937 speakers of Tzotzil in Mexico, making it the 6th most spoken indigenous language in the country...

dialect.

Budget was $500,000 USD.

Soundtrack listing

Music written and conducted by George Shaw

1. "The Legend of La Llorona" - 2:21
2. "Journey to Mexico" - 2:32
3. "Carolina Apparition" - 0:48
4. "Nocturnal Abduction" - 1:16
5. "Missing Child" - 0:46
6. "The Weeping Woman" - 1:48
7. "Prayers for the Missing" - 3:24
8. "Scaredy Dog" - 0:16
9. "Market Chase" - 3:25
10. "Siblings Snatched" - 1:30
11. "He Left Me" - 1:42
12. "Kids in the Dark" - 1:06
13. "Flashlight Clue" - 0:57
14. "Now You Will See" - 0:43
15. "Mistaken Identity" - 1:57
16. "Fernando Taken" - 1:28
17. "It's J-ok'el" - 1:42
18. "The Search" - 4:03
19. "Cavern Confrontation" - 4:28
20. "Cemetary" - 3:19
21. "J-ok'el" - 2:57