![]() ![]() Having received a video camera for his graduation, he goes about documenting everything – his grad party, his best friend Hector (Jorge Diaz) sign-spinning, and the weird occurrences of his “bruja” (Spanish for “witch”) neighbor Anna (Gloria Sandoval). Instead, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones seeks to further the backstory of the demonic cult set up in the third film, delving into their practices and their possible motivations.Ĭaught up in this exposition is 18-year-old Jesse (Andrew Jacobs), a recent high school graduate with a proud family standing behind him. And I’m not lying when I say that last one – except for one fleeting, unbeknownst-to-them reference, they are not mentioned at all by the main characters. There are no repetitive Blair Witch-type “remember what that guy said to us?” or “remember that thing that happened to that girl in San Diego?” dialogue moments, nor are there any mentions of Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat. While this reliance is put in place to seat this story in the realm of the series, it’s not an overreach. The film relies just enough on the mythology set up by its predecessors, borrowing ideas (and a character or two) from each film to get things going. ![]() ![]() Now, they’re at it again, but not with a direct sequel Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is a parallel story in the same universe, standing proudly on its own and delivering not just the scares, but a fairly good tale as well. Even though the quality of the films has subsided with each successive installment (except for PA3, which I’ll still watch every now and again), they all guarantee scares that audiences seem to fervently relish. Shot on the cheap with not much in the way of special effects and sound design, the four previous movies in this series have been Paramount Pictures’ annual reason to go to the bank with huge deposits in hand. Much like the Saw franchise before its demise, it seems we can’t go a year without seeing a new Paranormal Activity movie. ![]()
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