Even the Wind Is Afraid (Hasta el viento tiene miedo) // Mexican Gothic

dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada // 1968 // 1 hr 30 mins

Prolific screenwriter-turned-director Carlos Enrique Taboada kicked off a "series of films that revitalized the genre" with this classic ghost story. "Taboada's films are some of the first to depict modern-day Mexico as the space of gothic horror," writes Kerry Hegarty. Even the Wind is Afraid's story of a haunting in a girls' boarding school not only helped to change the face of horror in Mexico, it also continues to inspire modern day directors, including Guillermo del Toro, who has cited Taboada as an influence. Also, let's be real, it has one of the best titles in horror history.

For four weeks in September, Orrin Grey and the Stray Cat Film Center team up to bring you some of the strangest, eeriest, and most chilling horror flicks from south of the border. Haunted monasteries, mad doctors, witches, ghosts, mummies, and more await you in four underseen classics of MexicanGothic.

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