By Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor Mexican filmmaker Issa López is set to adapt and direct Our Lady of Tears for Blumhouse based on the Daniel Hernandez Epic magazine article “The Haunting of Girlstown” which was published on Vox.
Our Lady of Tears will be produced by Blumhouse in association with Epic Media. The article focuses on a mass hysteria epidemic with supernatural roots, that in 2007 spread through Villa de las Niñas, an all girls, Catholic boarding school in the outskirts of Mexico City.
The school recruited and isolated socially neglected girls coming from families living in extreme poverty and in remote areas of Mexico.
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