Even the Wind Is Afraid

Even the Mexican movie industry is short on horror films, this one stands out among the lot.

The story is about some girls who have to spend their summer vacations on the school due their cruel principal. What they don´t know is that the school is haunted by a ghost.

Although the story might not seem very original, director Taboada manages to keep it moving and adds a few twists along the way. The acting is somewhat irregular but the main cast is good, specially Marga Lopez as the only adult who takes the matter seriously.

Believe me, this film is so eerie that you´re going to be looking twice before entering a dark room for a long time.

When a girl's nightmare stirs up old memories, the overbearing headmistress (Marga Lopez) of a posh boarding school and her assistant (Maricruz Olivier) are forced to face some forgotten ghosts, both figurative and literal.

Director Carlos Enrique Taboada is adept at spinning suspenseful mystery into his horror yarns. The girls are stuck in the school for vacation, due to rules violations, and this gives them a chance to be terrified and to do some sleuthing around. He also throws in a bit of humorous relief, in the form of an impromptu dance party. It gets interrupted abruptly, jolting us right back into the chills!

A classic of Mexican horror cinema with a perfect finale and epilogue...

Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo, show us the story of a group of young ladies, that as a punishment, they have to stay in the boarding school for vacations. The ghost of a death schoolmate makes her appearance to unwrap a story with the most pure terror style. The movie it's great and although it follows the typical pattern of movies made during those times, it stills being frightening. It also shows a great perspective of the Mexican society and with the scene of the striptease, I believe that it goes a little beyond the times when it was released. Whether you like Mexican movies or not this movie proves that although the lack of resources which it was made, at least we can say that we have a great horror ancient film, a genre that isn't common at all in this industry.

Creepy and colourful ghost tale from Mexico and set in a girls school. The girls, in their bright red blazers are administered by a rather officious headmistress and a more sympathetic assistant. Tensions mount and it becomes clear that something terrible happened in the past that is affecting the present. What this film does particularly well is make us feel uneasy about a particular character that we previously saw as perfectly normal. Being Mexican there was always going to be something slightly different here and for me that something is the most extraordinary striptease sequence that comes out of nowhere and is a weird mixture of excitement and embarrassment. An assured ghost story with some great scenes. Recommended. (One amusing aspect of the subtitles on my print is that on several occasions, the rather prim and proper headmistress is ticking off her girls and telling them that this or that is 'nonsense' but this is translated as 'bollocks' which seems a little harsh!)

It's been over thirty years since I've seen "Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo" but I still think it is the best thriller movie ever...I can still picture some of the scenes. If you want to be scared without being grossed out, this is the film to see. When I saw it, I thought it would be the usual campy type scare film. But, instead, it turned out to be one of the best I've ever seen. The suspense builds throughout the film and brings to mind the thrillers by Hitchcock. The actors were wonderfully natural, not the usual "kid" actors and the scenery was frightfully eerie. The sound effects were also good, you could feel the wind blowing throughout. I would love to see it again...does anyone know where I could buy a copy?