![]() Ain’t that some shit? This means that all of the scares are completely insane and over the top and there’s no sort of subtlety to them. However, instead of realizing he has super powers, Jesse is realizing he might be in league with Satan. The tone of this film is far more similar to something like Chronicle or Afflicted where the focus is the friendship aspect of the two leads and their own shock at the spectacular things happening. What I found so appealing about the first film was the subtlety of key scares that made you take an active role in questioning whether or not you saw what you actually saw, and that shit is COMPLETELY GONE. Can’t it at least be a pentagram or something badass? Hector tries to find out what could be happening to Jesse with the help of a franchise familiar face, but will he be able to help Jesse before it’s too late? Obviously there’s going to be another movie so of course he doesn’t.Īpparently this is what happens to “marked ones”, which has to be the lamest mark I’ve ever seen. With the good comes the bad, and Jesse has a mark appear on his body, weird strings come out of his eyeballs and stereotypical evil shit. Jesse starts experiencing strange things, from visions to super-abilities to invisible forces. When Jesse and Hector investigate the apartment, they find pictures of Jesse as a kid and even of his pregnant mom, who died during childbirth. They use the camera to see a weird ritual going on with a pregnant woman, and to add to the mystery, the old woman who lives there is murdered a few days later by a classmate. It’s mostly used to film the antics of him and his best friend Hector ( Jorge Diaz), until they hear weird sounds coming from the apartment below theirs. To celebrate his high school graduation, Jesse ( Andrew Jacobs) celebrates by buying himself a GoPro camera. So what’s it going to be, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones? Are you going to be like the even number movies or odd numbered movies? WELL HOW ABOUT WE FIND OUT TOGETHER, FRIENDS! This review is relatively spoiler-free, or at least it is at the time of writing this sentence.Įven though we’ve seen the “Guys I just got a camera and want to film everything” trope used before, it fits in the goofier tone of the movie. Granted, Paranormal Activity 2 just felt like a cash-in on the first film’s name without doing anything unique and Paranormal Activity 4 was…wait, fuck that movie. ![]() The first Paranormal Activity had a good amount of subtle scares and Paranormal Activity 3 gave some backstory to why these things were happening and witches were involved. I know a lot of people groan when “From the people behind Paranormal Activity” pops up in trailers, but I think the series has some fun stuff to offer. Also, it marks the first time that they didn’t just add a number to the title, possibly trying to move the franchise in a different direction. Can you believe we made it through 2013 alive? Can you believe we made it through 2013 alive AND without a Paranormal Activity movie being released?! It’s been four years since that happened and the producers of Saw have been giving the finger to PA the whole time. ![]()
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