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Director
  
Benjamin Williams

Initial DVD release
  
June 24, 2008 (USA)

Duration
  

Language
  
Spanish

3.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror, Thriller

Music director
  
George Shaw

Country
  
Mexico

J okel movie poster

Writer
  
Benjamin Williams (story), Jeremy Svenson (screenplay), Peter Theis (screenplay), Andy Whitaker (screenplay), Alondra Salinas (screenplay)

Initial release
  
March 1, 2007 (Mexico City)

Cast
  
Tom Parker
(George Christensen),
Ana Patricia Rojo
(Carmen Romero),
Dee Wallace
(Helen Moret),
Jesús Ochoa
(Capitán Flores),
Diana Bracho
(J-ok'el),
Angelique Boyer
(Chica Francesa)

Similar movies
  
Dee Wallace movies, Movies about Mexico, Thrillers

Tagline
  
Do you hear the whisper?

J-ok'el is a Mexican thriller of 2007, directed by Benjamin Williams. The film deviates from the usual stories about spirits showing an ending where the good guy do not always win. This film was William's debut.

Contents

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Plot

An American man travels to a small town in Chiapas, Mexico called San Cristobal de las Casas, to help his mother when he knows that his stepsister has been abducted. Everything indicates that it is a wave of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el (Weeping Woman). This woman had drowned her children a long time ago and her spirit has returned to take other children and thus forget her 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 language.

The 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. "Cemetery" - 3:19
  21. "J-ok'el" - 2:57

References

J-ok'el Wikipedia
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J-okel IMDb J-okel themoviedb.org