While the film hardly plays it coy about where this is all heading, it doesn’t seem to be in a rush to get there, and it springs a number of smart ideas along the way. Being teenage boys, they’re far too intrigued by the boobs on display to fret over the obvious occult ritual taking place, but when Anna is subsequently murdered, they decide to attempt some amateur late-night sleuthing, with predictably unpleasant results. The first complication comes from Jesse’s elderly downstairs neighbor, Anna (Gloria Sandoval), whose reclusive behavior is strange enough for Hector to postulate that “maybe the bitch is a bruja.” The two attempt to spy on her by lowering a camera down through a ventilation shaft, where they witness Anna scrawling arcane symbols on the belly of a nude younger woman. Fortunately, Jacobs and Diaz boast an easy “Beavis and Butt-head”-esque chemistry throughout, making for pleasant company as the audience waits for the inevitable horrors to befall them. Seemingly possessing no greater postgrad ambitions than milling around and attempting “Jackass” stunts with their omnipresent video camera, Jesse and Hector harass Jesse’s abuela (Renee Victor), smoke pot, play basketball, occasionally run afoul of some local gangsters, draw penises on one another’s faces, and generally bust each other’s balls for a decent chunk of the film. Set in gritty Oxnard, Calif., the film boasts an almost entirely Latino cast of characters - a welcome gesture toward a huge filmgoing demographic that rarely gets to see itself onscreen - while smart casting and production design help capture the flavor of the environs with only moderate deployment of cultural stereotypes. Kicking off with a high-school graduation, “The Marked Ones” centers on likably lunkheaded teenage buddies Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz), as well as Jesse’s tag-along relative Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh).
At no point, do you wind up staring at surveillance-camera footage of a swimming pool, or being freaked out by blurry shadows.At this point, the conventions and limitations of the found-footage horror film are almost as well worn and cliched as those of horror pics at large: “Put down the camera, stupid!” has now probably been shouted at just as many screens as “Don’t go down into the basement!” (Look for “Tilt your viewfinder 20 degrees to the left!” to finally supplant “Look out behind you!” within the present decade.) Appropriately, the hapless heroes of “The Marked Ones” never put down the camera even as they venture into dark basements, or struggle to start a stalled car, or split up in the middle of a haunted mansion - and it’s to the credit of the film’s primary cast that these bits of genre-appropriate stupidity generate more laughs than groans. This film serves up some jump-scares, but also a certain amount of wild and crazy thrills and a number of wacky surprises. In addition to being scary, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is also thrilling, which is a different quality of excitement. Can Hector and Marisol solve the mystery of Jesse’s behaviour before it’s too late? At first he seems to have superpowers, but before long he becomes withdrawn and even violent. Soon after, Jesse begins to exhibit strange behaviour. When it appears that a schoolmate has killed Anna, they begin poking around the apartment, finding curious articles of witchcraft. Soon the friends become curious about the strange noises coming from their neighbour Anna’s apartment.
He gives a speech at his high school graduation, and his family and friends, Hector (Jorge Diaz) - who films everything - and Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh), throw him a party at their apartment complex. Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) is a normal, happy kid in Oxnard, California.
A young California Latino named Jesse is marked for possession by the same malevolent demon who previously claimed Kristi and Katie. His best innovation is to give the story a refreshing angle, and make the film compelling.
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A writer on the series since Paranormal Activity 2, Christopher Landon directed this fifth entry.
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