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.

It'd seem to be a cliche -haunted school, scared girls in uniforms... but 'Hasta el viento tiene miedo' is more than that. With some good actresses, but more than that, a smart script and a clever direction, it has unexpected moments and really scaring scenes. Highly recommended!

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!)

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...

This movie is a very good one, you have to check out Mr.Taboada´s directing,It´s ageless and even if its mexican oldstyle movie making, you can still feel the scary vibes he was aiming for. The movie centers around a group of girls that because of disobeying some orders stay stranded in their college all summer long, one of them starts having some weird dreams and theres a ghost rounding that college with a dark past. There´s a strip tease scene that can show some lesbian shadows on the girls, you have to see it yourself, spine tingling and horror at it´s best on this 70´s horror story.