The idea behind KM31 came from a Mexican legend, is that right?
Well, actually I first got the idea from a famous radio horror show in Mexico called ‘The Hairy Hand’. I’m a big fan. People call the radio station and tell stories about their real supernatural experiences…This one time a truck driver told this story about a ghostly ‘woman of the highway’. And he told the story so well, in such a dramatic way that I was absolutely inspired. I basically ran and wrote the first 10 pages of the script at that moment – and I never touched it, they are exactly the same 10 pages since then. And it was seven years before I started pre-production on the movie! But the story that this guy told had a lot in common with ‘The Crying Woman’ Mexican legend. Your mother and grandfather would tell you about this legend since you were a little kid. They’d say, “If you don’t behave yourself, the crying woman will come for you!” It’s about this woman in the time of the Spanish colony of Mexico; her beauty was famous throughout the whole country. She fell in love with a
