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The Squad (2011)

The Squad poster
Original title
El páramo
Directed by
Jaime Osorio Márquez
Genre
horror film
Country
Colombia, Argentina
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
16
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 81 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A squad of soldiers is sent to investigate a remote military base that has gone silent. When they arrive, they expect to find enemy combatants but instead discover a single chained woman.

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What happens

The Squad (Spanish: El Páramo) is a 2011 Colombian psychological thriller film written by Tania Cardenas and Jaime Osorio Marquez and directed by Marquez in his directorial debut. The film was released in Colombia on 7 October 2011. It follows a squad of soldiers that are sent to investigate a mountain military base. After a secret military base ceases all communications, an anti-guerrilla commando unit is sent to the mountainous location to discover what exactly happened. The squad expects to discover that the base was attacked and taken over by guerrilla units, but instead find only a lone woman (Daniela Catz) wrapped in chains. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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