![]() Instead we get refried screams, as best buds Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz) get too curious about the crazy old woman who lives in the apartment below them in their California housing project. The opportunity should have been taken to jettison the found-footage idea, which makes absolutely no sense in this context. The Marked Ones introduces new characters: a group of Latino teens who stumble into the witches’ coven revealed by the earlier films (and also a tell-all trailer). Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones follows high school senior Jesse as he deals with the aftermath of a murder in his apartment complex that causes an evil spirit to begin to stalk him. Peli now co-produces while series writer Christopher Landon moves into the director’s chair. Hence Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, the first spin-off of a horror franchise that had simplicity going for it when writer/director Oren Peli’s lo-fi poltergeist home haunting debuted in 2007. The term is now indiscriminately applied to any movie that uses an excessive amount of hand-held camerawork, bad sound and ragged editing. The novelty has long been crushed like a Halloween pumpkin under a steamroller, thanks to countless imitators who also corrupted what “found footage” actually means. The Sundance Film Festival in January, 1999 sensationalized The Blair Witch Project and its documentary-style conceit of a “found footage” movie of recovered home video that slowly revealed its horrors. The real terror of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is the horrifying thought that Blair Witch disease rages unabated, 15 years after the outbreak began. Written and directed by Christopher Landon. Starring Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz and Gabrielle Walsh.
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