The Marked Ones is the franchise's second spin off - if you count the Tokyo-released Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (unseen by me), but I digress - jumbling up all that we came to know before, this time concerning a Latino family in the working/middle class, Hispanic neighborhood of Oxnard, California. However, the January-release of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones continues with my other unintentional-tradition that my first theater-film of the year is a very mediocre horror film, 2013's being Texas Chainsaw 3D and 2012's being The Devil Inside. If that old saying was true, I'm a cat who lost all his nine lives rather quickly. While each sequel to 2009's surprisingly great Paranormal Activity was significantly lacking in some way or another, I always looked forward to what exactly was in store for the next film. Call it a blessing, a curse, or what-have-you, I felt a tad incomplete. Halloween 2013 felt a little unremarkable this year, from the lack of spirit in my local neighborhood, the presence of only one theatrically-released horror film during the whole month of October (Carrie), and the first time since 2009 I didn't spend one Saturday morning in the theater watching an installment of the Paranormal Activity franchise. There are worse found-footage movies out there, but The Marked Ones is definitely one you can skip over. You just want these stupid jump scares to stop so you can go about your life not watching this movie.
Near the end I was just waiting for it to be over because you know there's not going to be any explanation or any depth to the story at that point. It just got really uninteresting really fast. I won't say it's terrible because I didn't hate myself watching it. It basically went from being an intriguing murder mystery to a generic possession movie. And that's how the entire third act feels: rushed and lazy.
Let's just make a bunch of supernatural crap happen to these characters we developed and wrap this up as quickly as possible".
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It's like halfway through the movie the filmmakers were like "oh crap, this has to be a Paranormal Activity movie. Easy jump scares, stupid mythology that isn't even explained and makes no sense, people running around from room to room with no suspense. I liked the characters, I thought the filmmakers were doing something interesting and fresh, there are some comedic bits thrown around, it was just enjoyable to watch. The first 30 or so minutes I was invested in the movie. It's the same premise though - found-footage, teenagers, ghosts, demons, and what have you. I've only seen the first Paranormal Activity so I'm reviewing this as a standalone movie, even though it's actually a spin off or whatever.
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