Thankfully, the whole “setting up cameras around the house” format of the other films is largely absent, but oddly, the middle portion of the movie seems to borrow heavily from another “found footage” success story: 2012’s Chronicle.
And when Jesse wakes up the following morning, he finds strange marks on his arm which indicate that something lurking in the old woman’s apartment is now coming after him. Jesse, Hector, and Marisol end up investigating the woman’s apartment, finding evidence that she practices black magic as well as objects that connect her – not that the teens know this – to the other Paranormal Activity movies. Jesse initially spends the first few days of the summer break playing with his new digital camera, through which we view all of the action, which consists largely of him and Hector trying to make fools of each other.īut things take a darker turn when the mysterious “crazy lady” who also lives in a downstairs apartment, Anna (Gloria Sandoval), is found murdered – and all signs point to the valedictorian of Jesse’s class, Oscar (Carlos Pratts). Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones begins with the high school graduation of Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) an affable young man who lives with his father, sister, and grandmother and spends his time hanging out with his clownish pal Hector (Jorge Diaz) and downstairs neighbor Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh). The result is a film that is undeniably effective in places, yet begins to get bogged down by the same wearying issues that have plagued the series’ more recent entries. The more things change, the more they definitely stay the same in Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, an offshoot of the popular horror franchise that moves the action from the suburban homes of the first four films to a gritty Latino neighborhood in Oxnard, California, while still employing the “found footage” esthetic and mixed bag of scare tactics that are the trademarks of the rest of the series.
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