Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Fears in the fog

The Squad (2011)

Directed by Jaime Osorio Marquez this film stars Juan David Restrepo, Andres Castaneda and Mauricio Navas. A squad of soldiers in Colombia is sent to a remote mountain base to find out why they have ceased making contact with the outside world.

While this is a horror film it would be best described as slow burning, eerie and paranoid rather than out and out scary. I love the way the film uses so much ambiguity that you never really are sure what is going on and the claustrophobic location works really well. This may not be the deepest or fastest paced horror film you will see but I found it to be a good watch that really captures the psychological break down of it's characters.


4/5

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