Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

I love this movie so much

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Paranormal Activity 4 brought the PA series up a lot, have the film being stumped on by fans and having a kind off boring dialouge..same with this,BUT,to me,this film is good. The Marked Ones plays out as a spin off film at the start of the film when we see these two dudes in California that you've never seen before and your kind off like,ya right cool and then,stuff pops up and your kind off like ohhh I remember this. To me,The Marked Ones was class and very very scary,it brang in some new stuff like who knew that Toby talked to people threw Simon. The only thing I also disliked about this film was the use of time travel, but it was not the worst thing ever put into a film. I really enjoyed this film a lot,the film had a lot of jump scares and I think,I just think,even though it wont happen,a sequel would be good or another spin off maybe called like 'The Marked Ones 2' or something..

Another underrated Paranormal Activity movie, just like part 4. What's wrong with you, people? These 2 movies are good.First of all, this is both a sequel and a spin-off. It has new characters, middle class people. I liked how they made contact with the other movies:Ali character, Katie and Kristi as children, grandma's house and... Katie and Micah's house.I liked how the story develops, it's very exciting how they discover every time something new and interesting. There are quite a few scary moments and jump-scares. The idea of time traveling was very good.I think 5,0 rating is very low for the film's quality.

Love it or (more often) hate it, there's no disputing the fact that (along with the 'Saw' franchise, which is arguably more slasher/torture-porn), and despite the fact that it owes an awful lot to 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) in its found-footage conceit, the 'Paranormal Activity' horror franchise has defined horror since the first one back in 2007. Since the major success of the first movie each subsequent sequel up to 'Paranormal Activity 4' has enlarged its internal universe with story lines following on from the events of the first movie as well as, more impressively, story lines which both flesh out a surprisingly cohesive and eerie back-story.'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' breaks a little with this tradition. Instead, describing itself as a "cousin" to the first four movies, this film takes a sideways step from the events surrounding the family of Katie and Kristi and chooses to change its setting to a socially deprived Hispanic community. The found-footage conceit is still in place but the change of setting is refreshing and yet loses nothing of the chill factor as we watch three friends become embroiled in these dark machinations: one of whom, Jessie, is a "marked one" and whose personal transformation we follow.So…is it scary? Umm, well, in bits. The main hallmark of the franchise is the quiet-quiet-quiet-LOUD jump-scare. Something which infuriates many in its predictability but which nonetheless remains effective…something like the Big Mac of horror movie scare-tactics. And for better or for worse, these remain in place. However, I found the overall atmosphere of the first thirty or forty minutes actually quite creepy. However, this tension dropped off considerably after this point so that by the time the climax at the creepy house from 'Paranormal Activity 3' (my favourite of the franchise) there was little left.Still, this is not to say that I was bored. I just wasn't scared.Overall, I think it is an interesting installment of the continued 'Paranormal Activity' experiment, one which goes a long way to unlocking the events that preceded it and also one which lays groundwork which continued installments can build upon. However, herein lies the failing: I think the movie would offer very little to a viewer not familiar with the previous films…while for those who have seen the previous films, things just seem very, very familiar.

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. It's the same premise though - found-footage, teenagers, ghosts, demons, and what have you. The first 30 or so minutes I was invested in the movie. I really was. 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. Then it turns into cliché city. Easy jump scares, stupid mythology that isn't even explained and makes no sense, people running around from room to room with no suspense. It's like halfway through the movie the filmmakers were like "oh crap, this has to be a Paranormal Activity movie. Let's just make a bunch of supernatural crap happen to these characters we developed and wrap this up as quickly as possible". And that's how the entire third act feels: rushed and lazy. It basically went from being an intriguing murder mystery to a generic possession movie.I won't say it's terrible because I didn't hate myself watching it. It just got really uninteresting really fast. 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. You just want these stupid jump scares to stop so you can go about your life not watching this movie. There are worse found-footage movies out there, but The Marked Ones is definitely one you can skip over.