The Wind of Fear (2007)

Really Surprised!

Great Film overall

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Having not seen the 1968 original, I will not comment on the remake in comparison. I will look at it on it's own.Martha Higareda (Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball) and Verónica Langer ("The Crime of Padre Amaro") head this primarily female cast, with a great performance by Elizabeth Valdez.The film was not really very suspenseful, and there was no horror. It was a basic ghost inhabiting a body to get revenge against the one who killed her.Outside of a few short nude scenes, there is really nothing to recommend this film.

I use this rough phrase when I think it's only necessary. I'm Mexican, and I strongly recommend my fellow Mexican IMDb reviewers to not support this kind of BAD Horror movies ONLY because we live in the same country. If we support low quality movies, it means we can accept mediocre products such as this unnecessary remake. That's my call, I don't understand why it has generated bad responses from other users (although I was given 2 useful user opinions). Trust in me, I'm a an expert when it comes to Mexican Horror cinema. We deserve better Horror movies, for the sake of Carlos Enrique Taboada's memory. The Director and creator of the original "Hast El Viento Tiene Miedo".My problems with this movie are various: Why in the first time remake a Horror classic? I mean, what's behind the remake of a PERFECT Horror movie?, Probably the best Horror movie in the history of Mexican Cinema. I don't have intentions to denigrate the work of the people involved in the movie, but, in terms of Horror cinema, remakes are not always the best option.I can't find a logical answer for this remake.To be honest, I didn't watch this on theaters because I felt it betrayed my loyalty towards the 1968 Carlos Enrique Taboada's masterpiece. Second, because the cast sent me signals that it was to be a sequel to "Niñas Mal", and third, because I knew it was going to take little time for it to get on DVD or even on local t.v. Well it took only a year for it to be featured in local t.v. When I finally watched it, I asked myself "was this shot on handycam?". Not because of the atrocious cinematography and art direction, also because of the dull direction, wooden acting, and painful meant-to-be-important sequences. The shock situations attempts were just plain bad.This is a terrible horror movie that does not even feature mystery, suspense, or a solid plot. Heck, it even copies correctly the creepy ghost story from the original.The actresses seemed to be only having fun at the cost of a legendary ghost movie. Higareda is sexy and pretty but her talent won't be measured for her nudity level, she gotta understand it. That's a positive criticism. To be concrete, this is the worst remake by far in Mexican Horror. Please avoid it at all costs and my advice as a die hard Mexican Horror fan is to stick with the original.

Although some may disagree, this remake of the 1968 cult classic by Carlos Enrique Taboada, excels the original in many ways . Gustavo Moheno does justice to the story and manages to create a very scary entertainment. The main change? While the original took place in a boarding school, this one occurs in a psychiatric asylum.One of the best scenes recreates the famous striptease done by Norma Lazareno, but while in the original this dance was extremely well choreographed loosing credibility, in the remake the sequence fluids as a very spontaneous act that follows the impulses of a group of girls that just want to have fun.In general terms the ghost story is the same as the original but with new variations that add drama to the situation. There is a beautiful scene in which Martha Higareda reveals her naked body in front of a mirror that suggests the main theme of the movie (which I'm not going to mention because it could be a spoiler).The original film was formulaic and this remake can't help using the formula as well. Nevertheless, this new version is very well done, full of fascinating stuff that blocks, to some degree, all the clichés that defined Taboada's formula.

If you think this will be anything like the original, please don't waste your time or money, this is a bomb of the worst kind. Moronic writing, bad acting, a bad movie in all respects. The first 40 minutes, if you haven't fallen asleep yet, you'll beg for something, ANYTHING, interesting to happen. The rest is even worse. A good movie if you are trying to go to sleep. The character have no interesting qualities whatsoever, in every horror movie, character need something to make you at least care for them, in this movie you beg for the ghost to appear and kill this bunch of rotten girls nobody cares about. Even the "wind" a real and scary character in the original version is almost completely missing in this "remake".Nothing in this movie holds up to the original, but the worst thing is the writing, no character behaves consistently.