Written by James M. Tate / 1/07/2014 / No comments / 2014 , franchise , horror , sequel
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES
year: 2014 rating: ** |
Last year’s CHRONICLE also centered on high schoolers with a shaky handheld, detailing their existence before and after acquiring unknown superpowers which then turn deadly. Same thing happens here but with only one kid.
Latino teen Jesse, fresh from graduating high school with his video-happy pal Hector, hang around a dilapidated apartment complex and are curious about their neighbor, known around town as a Witch. The school valedictorian is spotted leaving her apartment and, well… let’s just say the wicked witch is dead yet there’s nothing to ding-dong about. In fact, they don't even knock.
After breaking into the taped-off apartment, Jesse, with marks on his arm looking awkwardly CGI compared to the documentary style “realism” of everything else, has superhuman strength and soon becomes fiendishly possessed, taking diabolic aggressions out on bully gang members and the family Chihuahua.
The premise is intriguing and the leading actors are somewhat likable, but the fact these jovially air-headed/pot-smoking kids figure things out like seasoned crime investigators and/or paranormal researchers is quite a stretch. It would have been more suspenseful and frightening had they (and the audience) remained in the dark a lot longer.
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