#The marked ones movie
#The marked ones series

As he and his best friend Hector (Jorge Diaz) investigate, he begins to change, exhibiting superhuman strength and telekinetic abilities while also becoming more emotionally distant and volatile. Moving from the San Diego suburbs of the first two films to the city of Oxnard, California, the film centers on recent high school grad Jesse (Andrew Jacobs), who notices increasingly strange goings on after the death of his eccentric downstairs neighbor Anna (Gloria Sandoval), who was rumored to be involved in witchcraft. Now we have a fifth entry, given the subtitle The Marked Ones instead of the generic “part five” because it’s not a direct sequel so much as a spinoff. To be fair, I’ll give a pass to part three as a prequel, but the others reeked of studio greed. There was no need for a continuation (this isn’t Lord of the Rings here), and yet we got parts two, three, and four.

#The marked ones movie

It is a short movie with a simple haunted house story that wraps itself up with a perfectly fine ending. The first film came out of nowhere, was a huge financial success, and is actually scary.

The Paranormal Activity franchise is the latest to suffer from the inevitable law of diminishing returns. Simply put, you’re rarely going to capture lightning in a bottle twice, let alone three, five, or eight times. You can’t tell me that any of the Halloween or Hellraiser sequels even approach the originals, yet there’s a ton of them. The main reason being, I generally don’t see the artistic point to try to rehash or one-up movies that are already clear classics.

#The marked ones series

I can’t comment on the endings of Psycho II, Nightmare on Elm Street 5 or Jason X because I’ve never felt compelled to see them, nor the dozens of other franchise sequels out there (I even gave up on the Saw series midway through part three). Written and directed by Christopher LandonĪs much as I love the horror genre, I’m not necessarily what you’d call a completist. With Richard Cabral, Carlos Pratts, David Fernandez Jr., Jorge Diaz and Catherine Toribio among the cast, and Christopher Landon directing from his script, The Marked Ones will haunt us on January 3.Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Movie Review It also features a much stronger religious theme. The new movie comes across as a blend of the usual Activity tropes, a little of **V/H/S **and a dash of Chronicle as the marked young man at one point uses his newfound powers to fight off attackers. They soon wish they hadn’t when one starts developing strange abilities and experiencing lost time. This time, teenagers learn of a neighbour’s death and go exploring the crime scene. Originally called** The Oxnard Tapes **(and still set in the city north of Los Angeles), this is a take on the franchise that targets Latin American audiences, while still staying within the same Paranormal universe.

The first trailer is now online and, we would caution, is a bit of a plot beast with spoilers galore. However, an offshoot, now called Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, is due early next year. After a run of four successful films, the Paranormal Activity franchise will be notable by its absence this October, since the fifth instalment has been delayed until 2014.