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It's all the more remarkable, then, that it not only improves on the last film but promises a fresh new direction for the series. There are requisite references to previous movies that'll excite faithful followers but may leave newbies scratching their heads.

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It builds on the same mythology as the previous films, rather than creating its own, and certain tropes (like the whole found-footage conceit) are too integral to the series to give up. To some extent, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is limited by the mere fact that it's a Paranormal movie. Still, my audience found plenty to make them gasp or giggle nervously, including one particularly disturbing sequence involving a distressed dog. The simplest answer is that it's about as scary as Paranormals 2 and 3, which is to say it's spooky in the moment but fails to achieve the lingering sense of uneasiness that marks the best of the genre.

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Not so much that Paranormal becomes Die Hard, thankfully, but enough to make this version feel different in a fun, exciting way.īut of course, the question with any horror movie is whether it's actually scary. This time, there are fewer excruciatingly long build-ups but more explosions and even gunfire. Landon is a veteran of the Paranormal series, having written all but the original, and he uses many of the same tricks here - jump scares, mysteriously appearing and vanishing figures, otherworldly hums, blank dead-eyed stares - but at a sprightlier pace. In earlier installments, the payoff was never as quite good as the tension leading up to it. Then, about halfway through the film, the evil stuff kicks in.

In a funny, all-too-real sequence, Hector documents these crazy occurrences on YouTube, only to get back snarky comments about his pathetic need for attention and his probable use of fancy VFX technology.

He discovers that he's able to throw bullies across the yard with a single punch, leap over his buddy's head with a simple leap of his skateboard, and throw himself to the ground without ever falling down. In a sequence reminiscent of the thematically richer Chronicle, Jesse eagerly tests his cool new powers. At first, that doesn't seem like such a bad thing.

Paranormal activity the marked ones reviews