![]() Yes, there are more jump scares in this one than the previous 2, and yes, it kind of plays up the ‘80s vibe a bit too much. All of the films after 3 explored too much of Katie’s history, but this one gives just enough to make it all work. I just love the overall tone of this one. We learn that Katie and Kristi have been haunted ever since they were children by a ghost named Toby, and that the ghost has been following them ever since. It’s chronologically the first in the series, since it concerns Kristi and Katie from Paranormal Activity 1 and 2 as children in the ’80s, and it has the best scares in the entire franchise. While some weren’t completely enamored by Part 3 in the franchise, for me, it’s my absolute favorite. But as a fan of the series, it’s one of the more passable movies in the franchise. If I wasn’t a fan of the series, I probably wouldn’t like this one since it’s pretty ho hum as a horror movie. It also does a better job of mixing in the past mythos than The Ghost Dimension or the clumsy Part 4 did. Not since the second movie did I find myself laughing as much as I did with this one, as the characters are, at the very least, interesting. Now, granted, this is probably the least scary out of the entire series, but that’s fine. It’s about an 18-year-old who starts messing around with witchcraft after the death of his neighbor downstairs, and how he becomes a “marked one,” which gives him powers from the dark side. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones has an almost entirely Latino cast and an interesting setting in Oxnard, California. Those who stuck around long enough after Part 4 were greeted with something that was a little unique for the series. ![]() Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) And yet, again and again, they sneak into Anna's apartment to continue their filmed investigation.4. The three kids discover, sitting around one of those old low-tech electronic Simon devices one night (a fun throwback detail), that the device appears to be tapped into the paranormal spirits, acting like a Ouija board, answering "Yes" or "No" questions, to the astonishment of the three kids huddled around Simon. Jesse and Hector loop in one of Jesse's cousins, Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh). There are some legitimate scares, although most of them are of the "It was just a cat!" variety. Naturally, the boys have to break into her apartment (now a crime scene) in the middle of the night to investigate. Why would those two naked ladies choose to stand in the exact spot where the camera can pick up the action through the grate?" The fact that what the boys observe is disturbingly ritualistic is erased by the reality of the real live boobs on display down there. Again, the "found footage" trope requires that you turn off your brain that pesters you with questions such as, "That apartment down there has four rooms. The boys attach the camera to a wire, lower it through the grate, and, to their amazement, observe frumpy Anna, in the nude, painting a red circle on the stomach of a gorgeous naked woman. Weird moaning sounds and bumps come up through the grate at night. Soon, the boys become curious about Anna (Gloria Sandoval), a downstairs neighbor. Their energy together feels unselfconscious it doesn't feel like acting. The only reason this banal footage has any entertainment value is because of the two actors. They do shots of tequila with Jesse's feisty grandmother (Renee Victor). Hector draws a penis on Jesse's face while he sleeps. ![]() At first, they just film each other doing dumb stunts involving laundry baskets and staircases. The only thing they have any interest in is fooling around with their new video camera. Both have just graduated from high school and seem to have no plans, no jobs, no goals. Jesse (Jacobs) and Hector (Diaz) live in a crowded apartment complex, with multigenerational family members crowded into small rooms. Evil spirits are up to their old tricks in "The Marked Ones", and this time the action takes place in Oxnard, California, in a working-class Latino neighborhood, a welcome change in style and feel from the other more generic suburban installments.
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