Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

Thanks for the memories!

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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

It's a good horror movie.. Better than some horror movies that I've watched. Some parts were amazingly scary and great. Other parts are okay. I find myself stopping and touching my face especially in the latter. I found the first 20 like minutes to be scarier at first but then it caught up in the middle and I didn't find the scares overexaggerated like The Haunting in Connecticut which I just watched yesterday... that was HORRIBLE and the plot build up was too sudden and random!! We didn't even know why things were happening in that movie anymore! It's like it tried to incorporate a lot of themes or concepts but failed! I feel like this kind of horror film is one of the scariest because it's captures more the audience because of the more realistic feel of the actor's camera.. although sometimes it feels ridiculous to be holding a camera in most of the situations in this movie.. but it's film making and entertainment! >_< *written yesterday, 2015-12-04

You ever have that feeling before you watch something that it's just going to be bad? I mean, sometimes you're pleasantly surprised, but more times than not you called it right. This was how I felt before watching 'The Marked Ones'. I just had this feeling of dread before renting this one, but I also felt obligated because I've seen the entire PA franchise. You know what I mean. And unfortunately, I was right. This one stunk. And while leaving on a bad note may leave one unsatisfied, I think it's time to just walk away from this franchise. I mean, once you jump the shark, there's no going back. Unfortunately, they didn't get that memo, as I hear there's a sixth installment coming out soon. Ugh.I'll start with a little bit of praise. At least the PA team tried to do something different. The first 4 were basically cookie cutters, and while 4 wasn't awful, you got the feeling that they kind of exhausted their formula of cameras positioned around a house while filming paranormal activity (usually at night), yet somehow the protagonists stick around much longer than any sane person would. And different is usually a good thing, right? Except when it isn't. And this different sucked.I actually bought into the characters at the beginning, as the PA franchise does a pretty job of character development. That made it all the more frustrating as the movie went south, which made me care less what happened to them and I found myself actually looking forward for the movie to end.Basically, we find out that certain newborn males are 'marked' to become possessed. Jesse is one of those, and at 18 years old the witches are coming for him. Without giving up to much info, this all ties back to Katie in the original PA, as we find her screaming Micah's name, just as she did at the end of PA1. Don't ask me how we ended up back to that point, but we did. At least we get to see how she killed him, I guess.The story basically makes no sense, and it just seems like the writers either made things up as they went, or they got completely hammered one night and wrote this atrocious script. Oh, and did I tell you that there isn't one scary moment in the whole movie? Yeah, that makes this even worse. It's hardly suspenseful, let alone the least bit scary.The more I think about this movie, the more it pisses me off. It was just that stupid. And I only have myself to blame, since I knew this was going to be bad before I watched it. I should learn to just trust my instincts. Though, I guess Im a glutton for punishment.

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.

This movie is so boring. its just stupid people who think they know how teenagers act. the first 35 minutes of the movie is just two guys going "WE GOT A CAMERA XD" And filming things that nobody would film. Im not talking about scary stuff, I mean they film them going out for a walk, they film them at a party, they film them drawing a penis on the other guys cheek, they film them talking about smoking weed in their room. The first two paranormal activity films were pretty good, they actually built up atmosphere and some kind of suspense. This film is too slow, like Birdemic: Shock and Terror slow. It takes 35 minutes for anything even remotely scary to happen. The ending is kind of cool because it turns out that they went into Micah and Katie's house in the first film, right at the point when Katie started screaming for Micah. But there was no reason for them to go there, and I enjoyed wondering what Katie saw down there, or whether she was just screaming so that she could make Micah come and she could kill him. So this movie spoiled that. And there are gangsters, WHY ARE THERE GANGSTERS FIGHTING MONSTERS IN A PARANORMAL ACTIVITY MOVIE? That's something Uwe Boll would come up with. This movie isn't scary, this movie isn't entertaining, this movie isn't so bad its good. Its just bad. Boring with nothing of substance or originality