Hasta el viento tiene miedo

Plot synopsis:
The film is about a group of students in an exclusive college for women, led by Claudia (Alicia Bonet) who decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing and recurring dreams Claudia has been having. The dream also features a hanged woman's body. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before, and that the teacher has seen her ghost.
Andrea, the young woman who committed suicide in the tower, haunts the women's college seeking revenge for her terrible tragedy. When Andrea attended the college she learned that her mother was gravely ill and wished to be excused from school to visit her dying mother. When Bernarda, the principal, forbade her to leave, Andrea became distraught and overcome with grief. In a manic episode she decided to hang herself in the tower after the news of her mother's death.
Andrea now seeks revenge and won't rest until Bernarda pays for what she did to her. One windy night Andrea beckons Claudia to climb the stairs to the tower. Bernarda follows her and attempts to stop her. When Bernarda reaches the top of the stair where Andrea hanged herself, she is met by the ghost. Paralyzed by fear, Bernarda can't defend herself from Andrea and is hanged by the ghost.
Some time after the terrible events of the stormy night, Claudia is set to go home and the new headmistress assures her that all is well in the college; as she walks to the school's main gate, she stares to the tower with fear, but the school's gardener tells her that Andrea rests in peace now and Claudia shouldn't fear her ghost anymore.

Tags: paranormal, revenge, suspenseful, murder, haunting

Review:
Nowadays, I am rather bored with the same movies about spiteful little ghosts of teenage girls or resentful children who want to give someone a message or simply punish their murderers.
Don't get the wrong idea about me, I am not trying to be rude or offensive, but horror movies nowadays tend to be way too similar when it comes to the whole "vindictive ghost" subject matter.
Fortunately, we can always rely on a good horror gem from many years ago and that is the case of "Hasta el viento tiene miedo".
In "Hasta el viento tiene miedo", a group of boarding school girls suffer from the torments of a authoritarian and conniving headmistress called Bernarda, who seems to unload of all her anger on the girls.
In contrast, Lucia, the vice-headmistress, tries to be as easy-going as possible to make up for Bernarda's unkind behavior, earning that way, the girls' friendliness One night, Claudia, a student from the boarding school, suffers from a nightmare, in which she hears a ghostly voice that calls her name from the heights of a tower that is situated in the school garden.
There's a ghost seeking for revenge and one of them is going to be chosen as a messenger and living avenger."Hasta el viento tiene miedo", is a well made Gothic horror gem, that not only frightens more than once, but also offers a lot of amusing scenes that work as some kind of humorous relief, without turning the whole movie into a comedy.
Marga Lopez, as the evil headmistress, probably offered one of the best performances in this film.
Her character, Mrs. Bernarda, reminded me of those days when I used to go to school and I would feel a shiver up from down my spine, every time I saw an intimidating teacher or headmistress.
"Hasta el viento tiene miedo" probably even delivers a hidden message regarding the severity of school authorities back then and the fact that violence can only produce more violence.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Carlos Enrique Taboada's Hasta el viento tiene miedo has a great reputation amongst those who have seen it; and after having finally tracked the film down myself, I have to say that its reputation is completely deserved!
Like the classics The House That Screamed and Suspiria, this film focuses on an all-girl boarding house.
Naturally the girls are not too pleased, and things take a turn for the worse when a long dead student is sighted during the heavy winds, and seems to be after a student named Claudia...The story is very much of the slow burn variety and while we do get plenty of horror; the film focuses more on building the characters, their relationships and the central situation.
The horror is brought forward more through atmosphere and while the locations used are not as Gothic as those seen in similar Italian films; the film does deliver a great air of creepiness and the way that the wind is used provides one of the main highlights.
It all boils down to an engaging and original (for the time) climax and overall; Hasta el viento tiene miedo may not be one of the best known horror films ever made, but it will certainly be of interest to horror fans.
This movie is worth of my collection of cool horror films.
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..
"Hasta el viento tiene miedo" is a good offering of Mexican horror.
But "Hasta el viento tiene miedo" is the better film.
"Hasta el viento.." tells the story in a very straightforward way, no room for ambiguity is left, so it becomes predictable and this takes away some of the film's edge.
The girls, though, are very charming and add eye candy to the film.You can't compare it to the Italian Gothic films ( by Bava, Margheriti, Freda, Caiano..) with their visual grandeur (lighting, decors, camera work ..), and their magnificent soundtracks.Anyway "Hasta el viento...." is an interesting film - I think that it won't scare the modern viewer, but it offers in return a well-crafted atmosphere, with touches of suspense and comedy.
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.
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..
After hearing from neighbors and friends about a Mexican movie that sure will scare you, and also that the story was happening in a school, i was waiting for Televisa to show this movie, without any luck i had to wait about 7 years to find this movie on DVD and finally Watch, i would say the wait was worth it , sure is a 60's movie and the image, picture and sound is not that great, but the way the history is deliver will make you watch until the end.
With an exceptional cast and successful, the film is full of subtle horror, fine and perhaps therefore highly effective, unlike anything he had done before..
The wind sound is scary as itself, and the voice saying "Claaaaaaaudia" is the best!Carlos Taboada had very clear the effect that this sub-rated film would have through the time..
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..
No doubt about it, Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo is the best horror-suspense Mexican movie..
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.
Dignifyng Mexican Horror Films.
and was Guillermo del Toro( twenty years after wards) with Cronos(1993) when we can see another interesting Mexican director of horror films.Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo(Even the Wind is Scared) written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada confirmed his talent as a writer and shows his ability as director, with scarce resources he got a real horror atmosphere obviously more suggested than visual., besides ,he knows how to get the maximum of a very limited feminine cast, (just three men appears during the movie in very secondary roles,)so we can believe the words of Alicia Bonet more than her exaggerated facial expressions every time she finish any phrase ,or the intense performance of Maricruz Olivier as the kind teacher even we can hate the uncompromising director of the girls institute played by Marga Lopez, without many movies of the genre to compete with Hasta el viento tiene miedo has all the ingredients to be consider a classic of the Mexican horrors Films.
I watched this movie when I was a little kid with my mom a long time ago, I never thought too much about it, I just considered it a decent horror movie with a pretty good title.
Seeing it again after all these years I realize just how good it is.Its as classic of a horror story as you can get, a ghost in a school, its relatable and familiar, a bit cliché by now but what makes you forget about how much this concept has been used is its execution, this is a genuinely eerie film, it doesn't use the usual cliché "scary faces" or "creepy sounds", however, it uses elements that are often used in classic horror like darkness, the wind, lightnings and cries (this is the first time I found someone crying in the dark of the night to be scary) but uses this elements at the right time, it doesn't waste them trying to scare you every so often, it builds the mood and the setting in such an astounding way before something scary actually happens in the story.Taboada is often considered to be the master of Mexican horror and I agree, while there have been other great directors who have made horror films, Taboada is the only director who worked consistently in the horror genre and not only that, but his movies are always great.
He also understands the genre very well, he knows that in movies like these the special effects wont be effective, he knows that characters, mood and execution are priorities.
Taboada knows that ghosts aren't evil entities but souls in pain who look for redemption.An amazing film that deals with many interesting themes and subjects, this is probably one of the movies I would like to re watch soon if I find the time to do it..
I began watching this Mexican horror film, a thriller set in a girl's school, with some excitement since I had read nothing but praise for it.
Perhaps one has to see Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo young, before watching many horror movies.
I do realize that a ghost story is built upon mood and atmosphere rather than shock scenes, but, really, this is a horror film for one's grandmother.
That was the year of Night of the Living Dead, the year of Targets, the year of Naked You Die, a much better school girl mystery.Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo does have a few surprises.
'Hasta el viento tiene miedo' is a supremely atmospheric Gothic horror from the Mexican maestro of understated chills, Carlos Enrique Taboada.
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.
'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..
When the students at an-all female boarding house are forced to stay on campus during a holiday break, they find themselves in the middle of a suspected haunting that has ties to those in charge and try to stop it before it gets deadly.This was an utterly enjoyable and engrossing Mexican horror effort, with one of the better and more entertaining ghost stories around that make for some incredibly enjoyable times around.
Filled with lots of atmosphere in the gigantic facility, a perfectly captivating mystery and the right amount of tension-release, from cheesy dance numbers and slight lesbian undertones to the gang's night-time investigations and the interactions with the headmistress make for some somewhat slow-going but still decent-enough interludes from the haunting action, and while it's not a real go-for-the-throat style of haunting where it constantly reinforces it's there but contains enough set-pieces to make it consciously part of the film.
The last half is a little too cheesy to mesh with the classic first-half, but it's still a great old-school ghost story and a highly entertaining one at that.Today's Rating-Unrated/PG: Violence..
Creepy and colourful ghost tale from Mexico and set in a girls school.
An assured ghost story with some great scenes.
An assured ghost story with some great scenes.
The rest of the young girls continue acting in Mexican soaps and movies to this day.
The Best Horror Movie.
Yes. That's right, "Hasta el viento tiene miedo" is the best horror movie ever made.
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..
Until the wind he/she is afraid (version of 1968), he/she comes to also give a turn in the cinema goods that it was developed in Mexico, with a cast of first actresses, as Marga López, Norma Lazareno, and several more.
I don't know if it is of cult, but I consider it one of the classics of the Mexican cinema, since they are few the films of this gender in Mexico that you/they are able to convince..
The best Mexican horror film.
"Hasta el Viento tiene Miedo", the original version, is the best Mexican horror film ever.
No discussions.But it's not the only great movie by Carlos Enrique Taboada.
If you liked this, there are other great movies by him, including the horror movie "El Libro de Piedra", the extremely underrated and little know "Rapina", what many consider to be his major work "La Guerra Santa".
In addition to his very good stories, Taboada should be admired for giving great roles to some of Mexico greatest actors including Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Marga Lopez, German Robles, Norma Lazareno, and especially two of our most intriguing actresses, Maricruz Olivier and Sonia Furio..
"Hasta El Viento Tiene Miedo" is truly a chilling, unsettling, atmospheric Horror movie.
I'm not sure but this may be the first ghost possession movie that deals with revenge.
This is a visually stunning Horror movie mainly because of Taboada's direction.
The movie relies it's creepiness on the settings (Gothic) and the shocking factor on the usual scary images that pop out of nowhere.
For example, when the girls are dancing along with the piano music, and Kitty is performing a striptease, the ghost of Andrea appears through the window and scares the hell out of the girls.
And there are more "shocking/scary" scenes through the movie.
"Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo" is a pioneer in the genre and probably among Mèxico's best Horrors movie to date.
There's no need of gore, or f/x in order to create a scary, creepy, and moving Horror movie.
"Hasta El Viento Tiene MIedo" succeeds on every possible aspect.
Almost every time an American filmmaker wants to do an Horror film, without a doubt goes direct to the blood and to the grotesque thing, even the superb Shamalayan.
Carlos Taboada does a great job to get chills and terror from this masterpiece.Claudia is a student in an all girl college that have dreams about a hanged woman that calls her.
After all girls see the ghost, her beloved teacher Lucia tells them that the hanged woman was Andrea a former student who had committed suicide five years earlier because she was punished the same way the girls were and doesn't have the chance to go see her dying mother, her only living relative.
After possessing Claudia, the spirit of Andrea seeks revenge and hangs the principal.Aside the final scene with the swimming pool that appears to have thrown in because of the time (just to see girls on swimsuits), all the movie has memorable cuts of truly suspense scenes.