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1. #EXPLANATION OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY THE MARKED ONES MOVIE#
2. #EXPLANATION OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY THE MARKED ONES SERIES#

What comes next remains to be seen, but “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” feels like a fresh start.

#EXPLANATION OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY THE MARKED ONES MOVIE#

The finale of Landon’s movie has a smart callback connecting the new film to the mythology of the earlier ones. It’s a fun fright film and wants to be nothing more. It also has no such aspirations, as “The Marked Ones” is refreshingly uncynical and straightforward in its desire to simply be a movie that makes the audience jump and be scared. His film doesn’t have anywhere near the formal inventiveness of the third or fourth “Paranormal” films. They dig deeper, and it turns out that some of them have been unknowingly involved in a sinister plot involving black magic mysticism and possession for years.Ĭhristopher Landon, who has written for the earlier sequels, directs for the first time in the series. “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” picks up with new characters - teenagers played by Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz and Gabrielle Walsh - who stumble onto an unsettling mystery when a reclusive woman in their apartment complex dies. Now it seems to make sense, businesswise and creatively, to tailor a film directly to the most ardent fans.

#EXPLANATION OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY THE MARKED ONES SERIES#

Producer Jason Blum seemed to steer the series more than Oren Peli, writer-director of the original, and the result has been something oddly decentralized about the “Paranormal” films. The series has a large Latino fan base, and in a way the audience has been the true auteur from the first film forward. The change is sharp, giving the new film some much-needed freshness.

For the first time in the series, the film is set in a Latino village, where a group of youngsters discovers a mystery cult that has marked one of them. The new film shifts from the suburban anxieties of the white middle class to a group of Latino teenagers in an apartment complex. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) The fifth film in the series is officially a spin-off and takes place in 2012, following the events of ‘Paranormal Activity 4’. The wildly successful series of low-budget films have trafficked in a sort of charged mundanity, the movies’ found-footage aesthetic based on the essential angst of “Who’s there?” and “What’s that?” in their shaky gaze toward darkened doorways and empty rooms. So it’s not surprising the team behind the “Paranormal Activity” films has gone an alternate route, adding a non-numbered secondary title of “The Marked Ones” on the franchise’s fifth entry. The scariest thing about some horror movies might be when “5” appears at the end of the title - little good has ever come from that.