The Similars

The Similars (Spanish: Los parecidos) is a 2015 Mexican supernatural thriller film written and directed by Isaac Ezban.

It stars Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Humberto Busto, Carmen Beato, Santiago Torres, and María Elena Olivares as people who are trapped by a hurricane at a bus station around the time of the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968.

Ulises becomes frustrated when he is stuck in a bus depot during a massive storm while his wife gives birth in nearby Mexico City.

Intermittent broadcasts on Martin's radio report increasingly worse news, eventually revealing that the storm is suspected to be a worldwide phenomenon of unknown origin.

While they wait for the taxi, Irene goes to the restroom, where a cleaning woman, Rosa, insists that she stay.

Alvaro, a medical student, becomes concerned when he sees Gertrudis inject Ignacio with a hypodermic needle.

Ignacio locks Gertrudis and Martin in a back room, where Rosa has transformed and committed suicide.

Ezban wrote the script in 2011, and shooting began on 7 July 2014 in Mexico City and Puebla.

[5] Dennis Harvey of Variety compared it to the 1961 Twilight Zone episode It's a Good Life, calling it "disappointingly familiar" but a "canny homage".

[6] Kim Newman of Screen Daily wrote, "Funny, suspenseful, inventive and charming, this knows when to tone down the homage and become genuinely frightening".

[7] Madeleine Koestner of Fangoria rated it 3/4 stars and wrote that the film "sells its silliness as scary, and by the end, you believe this ridiculous occurrence is really terrifying".