Darkling_Zeist 'Hasta el viento tiene miedo' is a supremely atmospheric Gothic horror from the Mexican maestro of understated chills, Carlos Enrique Taboada. Here he takes a prosaic plot, the haunting of a all-girls school and turns it into high cinematic art. To my shame I was, until recently, entirely unaware of Taboada's genre cinema, and it becomes apparent fairly swiftly that he is a true master of horror; the opening gambit of 'Hasta el viento tiene miedo' is creepy, subtle and shows a great mastery of camera that brings to mind the visionary genius of, Mario Bava. This is a genuinely unnerving ghost story that has you in its icy grip from its bravura first act to the heart-pounding, ectoplasmic denouement. 'Hasta el viento tiene miedo' is clearly an important work, whose chilling Gothic motifs rivals that of 'Black Sunday', 'N.O.T.L.D', and 'Carnival of Souls', and it remains a profound injustice to genre cineastes everywhere that Taboada's majestic, penetrating visions of fear aren't more recognized for the landmark films that they so clearly are.

algmzt 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.

san_tor Yes. That's right, "Hasta el viento tiene miedo" is the best horror movie ever made. The acting might be cheesy but it is forgivable considering this is a 60's movie. The story from this movie is superb and will chill your spine. If you can catch this movie on tv don't hesitate to put some popcorn in the mcrowave 'cause you will be about to witness horror at it's best.

pifas A prolific horror writer and filmmaker as well, Taboada left an indelible mark in the Mexican cinema industry. Even without being aware of it, because many of us, as merely spectators -at least me and some other persons I've spoken to-, didn't realize for many years that El libro de piedra (1968) and Más negro que la noche (1975), were part of Taboada's film history.Though i dig more El libro de piedra to a level as considering it his masterpiece, Hasta el viento tiene miedo (Even the wind's scared) it's such a powerful ghost story, that happens in a boarding school for girls. Since the beginning, the film warns you about what you're going to see because of a creepy start, that involves a sleepwalking girl on the outside in a windy night, attending a call made by another girl from the bell tower of the school's chappel. She starts climbing upstairs and the next thing you see, it's a pair of hanging feet and the sleepwalker awakening in a scream. Even on these days, the memories of the voice chanting like wind "Claudia, Claudia" in a whispering full of anguish, gives me the creeps. The first half of this story is told in such a brilliant way, that can only be surpassed by El libro de piedra in a whole; with good acting by names like Marga López, Norma Lazareno and Maricruz Olivier, Hasta el viento... moves around a girl whose dead, a bunch of brat student girls, and a mean school director. As I said before, the first half is brilliant in many ways. Taboada surely knew the sources of primal fear and took them to cinema extends, making you jump with scenes that has the ability to caught unaware, or leading tension into almost unbearable levels. Hope you can see it some time because it's well worth the feelings of anguish and fear caused by the sense of terror that we're led into while watching. Unfortunately, the second half falls on it's lap as a formulaic chain of events that leads to a cliché ending.Even so, most of Hasta el viento... it's a live picture of Taboada's art. He knew how to grab you by the neck and never let go. With his movies, you can feel the greatest fear running all over the body and you don't want to stop watching anyway. That was and still is magic; it was great cinema that depended only on the subconscious manipulation of terror. In fact, I owe Taboadas some of the greatest fears from my childhood, like never watching at the curtain's end at night, or to a window when there's a storm.