It killed and possessed the cook's body, turning the woman into La Nahuala, a witchly host, and initiated a ritual to take over.

La Nahuala ends up killing the Villavicencio family by poisoning their soups and murders the rest of the household.

Among those killed are the Villavicencio’s young daughter Teodora and Teodora’s servant Xochitl as ritual sacrifices, but before La Nahuala could finish her final victim she was "stopped.” However, her soul and the souls of all the people she killed are trapped in the abandoned house - and it is said she still awaits for a child to come near the manor at night so she can finally complete the ritual.

Despite the mess, Friar Godofredo only gently reprimands Leo and soothes his fears by assuring him that La Nahuala is dead.

During the festivities, Leo is shunned by two children in front of the seemingly kindly Santos' candy stand for his stuttering and for peeing when he's afraid (a fact Nando has been spreading).

The party arrived too late to save Xochitl and Teodora, but Toñita resisted, ripping the medallion of Miquitzli from La Nahuala's neck and upsetting the ritual as Friar Godofredo and the shaman fought the witch.

He reveals that he is aware of the medallion's power and orchestrated the night's events, as he was the young boy that was rescued from the Villavicencio house 52 years before: the son of the cook La Nahuala possessed.

At the San Juan Bakery, Toñita finds her grandsons missing and rushes to the abandoned house with Dionisia when she concludes it must be La Nahuala's doing.

She makes Teodora and Xochitl succumb to her influence and confronts Leo, letting him choose between staying and leaving.

After La Nahuala's spell rebounds on them by way of Friar Godofredo using the skull of Tezcatlipoca's mirror, Santos begs his mother for help with his wounds.

Freed from La Nahuala's influence, Teodora and Xochitl also move on (but not before kissing Leo's cheek in gratitude).

A year later on the feast of the Day of the Dead, the San Juan Bakery is visited by a crowd of spirits: Santos, the Villavicencio family, Xochitl, Teodora, Don Andrés and even Fray Godofredo.

[3][4] He, along with Alebrije, Don Andrés and the two sugar skulls (named Finado and Moribunda) depart on Friar Godofredo's hot air balloon.

In the United States release, the film was rated PG "for some scary images, language, thematic elements and rude humor" by the MPAA.

It uses a hybrid of 2D and 3D with Adobe After Effects (visual effects and compositing), Adobe Photoshop (background art), Autodesk Maya (computer animation), Avid Media Composer (editing), MASSIVE (rendering) and Toon Boom Harmony (traditional and paperless animation) on Microsoft Windows hardware and Wacom tablets.

The trilogy has also been adapted into a Netflix original series, titled Legend Quest, which was released worldwide on 24 February 2017.