Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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!)

I saw this movie when I was young, since I live close to the Mexican border it continues to be shown on the Mexican television stations from time to time. The cast is great with the two leading veteran actresses Lopez and Olivier. Sadly, both actresses have past away leaving their great movies for us to view. All the young female actresses are EXCELLENT, each playing the perfect part, especially Kitty (Norma Lazareno) doing her trashy strip tease, which almost steals the show!! Leading the scary roll, is Claudia (Alica Bonet) possessed by the ghost of Andrea, played by the beautiful Pamela Susan Hall. Oddly enough she did not pursue a career in movies. The rest of the young girls continue acting in Mexican soaps and movies to this day. Interestingly, there are only 3 male actors with the story, since the story deals with a private school for girls. The screechy owl on the tree, the haunting sounds and the whistling-eerie wind are scary enough to scare anyone. The final touch to the movie, that everyone is forgetting is the great spooky music. Most of the special effects are done in camera, no digital or cheesy effects here. I have bought this DVD and always look forward to seeing it again and again. Somehow we like to be scared once in a while. Great Halloween flick. You don't have to be bilingual to understand the story.

You need to see a real horror-suspense movie? Don't miss this one. Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo is 36 years old, and still is so fresh and captivating.Carlos Enrique Taboada didn't need special make up, mutilated bodies, rivers of blood, FX nor a budget of millions of dollars to create the best horror-suspense Mexican movie. No names to point, but in fact this movie is much better than many other popular horror movies you have seen.To listen the spectral voice calling "Claudia...Claudia"; see her slowly go towards that voice; watching Claudia dead covered by a blanket and suddenly to see her arm moving under the blanket; still takes my breath away.Yes, the final part is a cliché. However the first fifty minutes are worth.

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!