Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- eerie
- paranoid
- oppressive
- late night horror viewing
- halloween season
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film ambitious, well crafted, atmospheric, and refreshingly female centered, while noting that its ambiguity and final-act scare tactics weaken the sustained tension.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film places supernatural terror and possible madness within the isolated late-nineteenth-century American frontier.
Lizzy's experiences can be read as demonic persecution, prairie madness, or a destabilized mixture of both.
The wind, empty landscape, and distance from community make the plains feel oppressive and psychologically entrapping.
The story follows Lizzy and Emma while foregrounding disbelief, reproductive trauma, and women's isolation.
Films like The Wind, and why
The Witch
shared horror western setting, female-centered paranoia, and supernatural dread
The Shining
shared isolated frontier atmosphere, psychological disintegration, and ambiguous supernatural menace
The Nightingale
shared revisionist western framework, oppressive isolation, and grim female perspective
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
shared folk horror unease, period setting, and escalating religious paranoia
Movie Details
- Director
- Emma Tammi
- Release Date
- 2018-05-05
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 (371)
Cast
- Caitlin Gerard
- Ashley Zukerman
- Julia Goldani Telles
- Miles Anderson
- Dylan McTee
- Martin Patterson
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, AMC+, Shudder, Sundance Now, Shudder Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Wind about?
- On a lonely nineteenth-century prairie, a woman’s struggle with isolation and possible supernatural persecution turns frontier survival into a nightmare of fractured certainty.
- What is The Wind like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Wind as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Wind violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Wind as mild.
- What did critics think of The Wind?
- Critics broadly found the film ambitious, well crafted, atmospheric, and refreshingly female centered, while noting that its ambiguity and final-act scare tactics weaken the sustained tension.
- Which films are like The Wind?
- Films with a similar feel include The Witch, The Shining, The Nightingale, and The VVitch: A New-England Folktale.
- How long is The Wind?
- The Wind runs 88 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Wind?
- In United States, The Wind streams on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, AMC+, Shudder, Sundance Now, Shudder Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV channel.
