paranormal activity the marked ones reviews

Paranormal activity the marked ones reviews movie#
Paranormal activity the marked ones reviews series#

Yep, Jesse has been given a new camera at the start of the movie and boy do he and Hector love to use that thing and this film has many more locations than the rest of the Paranormal series. For the most part, the previous films were mainly set almost entirely inside suburban homes, filmed from the POV of fixed cameras (yes, there were some exceptions), but The Marked Ones is more like other found footage movies, shot as though it’s from the POV of cameras held by the main characters.

Paranormal activity the marked ones reviews series#

Stronger than the low point of Paranormal Activity 4 (though not up to the heights of PA3), The Marked Ones benefits from opening up the series considerably. If you enjoy the Paranormal Activity series, The Marked Ones works. There is also a very cool extra way in which this film ties into the others that certainly got a big reaction from the crowd I saw it with and is a great payoff for those most familiar with the series. And once more, we’re given little pieces to the increasingly convoluted mythology regarding these witches and what it is they’re trying to accomplish. As the trailer shows, there’s a brief appearance from Paranormal Activity 2’s Ali (Molly Ephraim), and she’s not the only familiar face from the franchise to pop up by the end. Still, at the end of the day, if you’d called this movie Paranormal Activity 5, it wouldn’t have felt out of place. Jesse is obviously dealing with people associated with the coven from the rest of the series, but he’s not as directly tied into the events of the previous films. This is sorta/kinda true, in that this is the first film to not center around Kristi’s extended family (if you’re reading this, I feel safe noting Paranormal Activity 4 ultimately did tie in, given who the neighbors were in that sequel). The Marked Ones has been described as a “spinoff” of Paranormal Activity series. It seems that Jesse’s neighbor was involved in some bizarre, macabre things with her own friends, which perhaps accounts for the VHS tapes marked “Katie and Kristi, 1988” in her apartment.

Jesse finds himself changing and displaying what appear to be superhuman abilities, all while beginning to act darker and more malevolent.