J-ok'el | |
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Directed by | Benjamin Williams |
Written by | Jeremy Svenson Peter Theis Andy Whitaker |
Produced by | Juan Carlos Arizmendi Paola Madrazo del Río Andrés Rodríguez Franco Benjamin Williams |
Starring | Dee Wallace-Stone Tom Parker Ana Patricia Rojo Diana Bracho Jesús Ochoa Angelique Boyer |
Cinematography | Andrew Waruszewski |
Edited by | Slater Dixon |
Music by | George Shaw |
Distributed by | Maverick Entertainment Group |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Languages | Spanish English |
Budget | $500,000 USD |
J-ok'el is a 2007 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Benjamin Williams. This film was Williams' debut. [1]
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. [2]
The film won gold medal for best music in the Park City Film Festival in Park City, Utah. [3]
J-ok'el means "weeping woman" in Tzotzil language.
The budget was $500,000 USD.
Music written and conducted by George Shaw [4]
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