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Detail is adequate, clarity is pretty good in daylight, and this image looks as the filmmakers intended. There's lots of digital noise and crushing blacks blown out highlights and jagged edges. This is a found-footage film, and the 1.78:1/1080p/AVC-encoded transfer looks exactly like the HD-cam source footage at its heart. Landon does his best to inject some humor into the proceedings, but The Marked Ones is largely a dour affair.

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If this series ever wants to move forward then it will have to stop getting stuck in the past. This isn't an espionage thriller, and I didn't need to see the same events from every possible angle. Less a tribute than a blatant rehash of that film's finale, The Marked Ones travels back to Casa de Katie and Micah for no reason other than to trigger a reaction from the audience. The climax reminds viewers that none of this would be possible without the impressive original. There are far less jolts per hour in The Marked Ones than in any of the previous four films, and that's not a good thing. There are a few jump scares, achieved by a blistering audible stinger over the surround speakers, but everything has been recycled from earlier films. We all know where this is going, but The Marked Ones takes so long to get to its ridiculous climax that I had all but tuned out by the start of the second hour.

The opening reels are dull, and the most excitement comes when Jesse proves unaffected by gravity's pull while horsing around at home. The no-name actors have to carry the film for over an hour without any real tension from the script. There were times during each of these films that I didn't know what the hell was going on, and I increasingly didn't care. Jesse has also been 'marked' by the witches thanks to some unfortunate family ties, and will be used as a vessel for the demon. The witches were revealed in later films, and The Marked Ones further ties them to the demon while expanding the action away from the Katie/Kristi story of earlier films.

Katie (Katie Featherson) from the first film was sold to the demon at an early age, and finally succumbed to his influence in that film's finale. These films have gradually revealed a story about a demon and the coven of witches it uses to enact evil on earth. I want to discuss the merits of The Marked Ones, but I need to get into SPOILER territory to do so. Nothing happens at first, of course, but Jesse begins to notice some strange side effects after the seance. What do the three young detectives do next? They construct a black mirror and attempt to open a portal into another dimension.

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Anna's apartment is full of occult symbols and references, and Jesse finds a picture of himself. When Anna is murdered, the suspect is a classmate of Jesse and Hector, and they enlist friend Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh) to help get to the bottom of the mystery. The rest is just boring, and the Paranormal Activity series finds itself in need of new tricks.įresh high-school graduate Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and buddy Hector (Jorge Diaz) observe strange, cultish activity from the apartment below Jesse's, where 'crazy lady' Anna (Gloria Sandoval) lives.

And then there's the finale, which has all the subtlety of rubberneckers passing by a multiple-fatality wreck. Producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli did a surprisingly decent job taking the standalone story from Peli's original and threading it through five films, but the goings-on here don't always make sense. The SoCal setting and multicultural cast are a nice change from the previous suburban terror, but The Marked Ones is still a fading facsimile of the slow burn, shaky camera buildups and 'what-the-hell' climaxes of earlier films. Paranormal Activity 4 was a critical dud and earned far less than its predecessors, so the powers that be gave the franchise a year off before expanding the story beyond the expected haunted-house thrills with Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.

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Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.Īfter low-budget thriller Paranormal Activity earned over $100 million on a $15,000 budget, distributor Paramount churned out sequels annually for the next three years.

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