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After having
tried to commit suicide, teenage girl
Claudia is sent to a support centre where troubled
young girls get a chance to rebuild their confidence.
Naturally the rules are strict and the girls at the
centre are having a hard time following them, but
for Claudia, none of this seems important as she soon
starts having ghostly visions of a teenage girl that
died in the centre many years ago.
How could I possibly sum this movie up in only a few
words? Well, how about; "Nothing happens... and then
nothing happens.. then the wind blows... and then the
movie is over". It's no secret that Mexico is years
behind in the movie industry but this remake of a
supposedly really scary Mexican horror flick from 1968
might just as well have been a sequel to the original
made back in the 70s. The technical incompetence, the
out-of-date score, the questionable make-up and the
non-existent scare factor are all things that make this
movie a tedious mess. Now I haven't seen the original
movie but seriously, they must have had at least some
suspenseful moments or scares in the original even if
it was made back in the 60s but this remake has nothing.
Not a single creepy scene! And it dares to call itself
a horror flick! I don't get it? It's not deep enough
to be a drama, it's not bizarre enough to be called
artistic and it's definitely not scary or suspenseful
enough to be called a horror flick. So like I said
before, this was just a whole lot of nothing.
After having seen a couple of stills from the movie,
I was expecting this to copy it scares from A Tale
Of Two Sisters (which it indeed tried to do but
failed at), and when the movie opens with Claudia
sitting in the car gazing out through the window
while the car pulls up to the gates of the big centre,
I most definitely thought that this was going to be
a "A Tale Of Two Sisters" copy-cat. Well, it's not.
And I wish it had been. Oh man do I wish that it had
been. Hasta El Viento is so mind numbingly boring with
such a flat story that it won't be able to scare even
the most squeamish of horror fans. It doesn't feel
up to date, the production values were obviously low
and it really seems as if the director was trying to
mix an artsy drama together with a mainstream horror
flick. Naturally the end result is a disaster.
I really don't want to go in to it all that much since
this really was one of the most tedious horror flicks
I've seen in a while - and still, movies like this
and Caņitas are making decent money at the Mexican
box-office. No wonder people were so excited when the
somewhat decent horror flick "Km 31" opened in Mexico.
Sure that movie was uninspired and generic but man
Mexicans just don't seem to understand the concept of
what a horror movie is all about - no offence. I'm
going to give it a rating of one simply because they
managed to nail the 70s feel of the movie - even
though I don't believe that it was intentional. Had
it been released 50 years ago, I'm sure it would have
managed to thrill a couple of old folks but in this
day in age, this won't give anyone a heart attack, or
even a gentle shiver. The title translates into "Even
the wind is scared", but mark my words, I am certain
that they forgot a NOT in the beginning of the title.
Don't bother, even J'ok-el had more scares in it.
Nothing at all.
Just like the entire movie, this felt very outdated.
A tedious Mexican horror film that takes place in a
support centre for troubled teenage girls should have
been more exciting than this. There is no real sense
of danger and the body count was below 3 (even below
two technically). The ghost doesn't kill anyone and
I'm not even sure we ever really got to see a ghost.
Ugh, I'm falling asleep from just writing this review,
just avoid it, okay?
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