Trailer for Colombian Military Horror, The Squad (El Paramo)

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The Squad poster 209x300 Trailer for Colombian Military Horror, The Squad (El Paramo)Horror films from the perspective of the military seem to be hard to come by these days.  Usually we get something where the army is either involved or just quarantining people, so this new trailer for Jaime Osorio Marquez’s new film, The Squad (El Paramo) should be welcomed with open arms.  This dark and menacing looking film comes to us from Columbia and has the potential to be either one hell of a psychological thrill ride or a slow moving and disturbing plot driven horror.

Whatever the result ends up being, if you are a fan of horror I’d highly suggest taking a look at the full length trailer below and letting it all soak in while you try to wrap your head around what is going on and if it is something you’d be interested in seeing.

All contact with a military base high in the desolate wastelands of Colombia has been lost. The authorities – believing the  base to have fallen to a terrorist attack – send a nine-man squad to  investigate.When they arrive, the men discover a shocking scene of  carnage, and only one survivor – a mute woman in chains.

Gradually  the isolation, the inability to communicate with the outside world and  the impossibility of escape begin to undermine the sanity of the  soldiers.They start to question the identity of their enemy, and the  true nature of the strange, silent woman. Is she a terrorist? A victim?  Or something more sinister? Something supernatural… Paranoia takes  root. Prisoners of fear and the terrible secret they share, their  humanity abandoned, the men turn savagely on each other.

Alex DiGiovanna