López said, in a statement, “The moment I read the Epic article, I knew I wanted to tell this story.
Blumhouse, today, announced that it is developing Our Lady of Tears, a film based on the Epic Magazine article, The Haunting of Girlstown, which was republished, today, by Vox.
The story describes an epidemic of mass hysteria with supernatural roots at an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Mexico City in 2007.
“It was March 2007 and nearly everyone at Girlstown, a Catholic boarding school in Chalco, Mexico, was panicked.