![]() ![]() Unfortunately, we’ve now seen plenty of this in the time since-the trailers that screened before The Marked Ones featured both Devil’s Due, a found-footage Rosemary’s Baby starring young people, and Welcome to Yesterday, a found-footage Primer starring young people-and the returns have diminished. We were so subconsciously attuned to the bathroom-mirror fakeouts and musical stings of traditionally made scarers that the lo-fi shockumentary frights of these movies managed to get under our skin in an entirely new way. ![]() The reason The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity were so terrifying at first was because they didn’t play by the rules and tempos of the horror genre. ![]() He overpowers the officers and drives away in one of their squad cars.Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, the latest in the found-footage franchise, doesn’t ever reach the heights of scaring people back into religiosity, but the spin-off at least gets a couple decent jolts out of its Santeria-themed occult plot-line, which by default probably makes it the best in the series since the first one. Police later arrive at the farm, finding Samuel possessed by Asmodeus.Margot kills her possessed mother and flees the farm with Chris. Sarah, possessed by Asmodeus, kills Dale. The inhabitants of the farm believe that women are the vessels that can hold Asmodeus, and host a failed attempt to transfer the being from Sarah to Margot in the cave under the church.This laptop was used to orchestrate her and Samuel's meeting in an effort to lure her to the farm. After their van’s battery dies, Chris and Dale catch a ride into town with a mailman who informs them that the Baylors are not Amish, as evidenced by the laptop Margot finds in the home. The Marked Ones is the franchises second spin off - if you count the Tokyo-released Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (unseen by me), but I digress - jumbling up all that we came to know before, this time concerning a Latino family in the working/middle class, Hispanic neighborhood of Oxnard, California.Starring: Andrew Jacobs,Jorge Diaz,Gabrielle Walsh Watch all you want. After experiencing several supernatural events, Margot becomes possessed, waking up in a pool of blood. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones 2014 Maturity rating: 16+ 1h 24m Horror Two friends investigate and record the strange supernatural occurrences that befall them in the wake of their mysterious neighbor's death.Margot rappels into the underground cave and hears growling. They move the pulpit, uncovering a hole that goes deep underground. Chris and Margot break into a church hidden on the property, finding inscriptions and references to Asmodeus, an entity from the book of Tobit (“Tobi”-t).Margot reconnects with blood relative Samuel, who is on rumspringa (a period where Amish youth explore the outside world before choosing if they wish to return) from his Amish family.Trapped, he enters a rune-covered door that leads him to Katie’s kitchen in 2006. Marisol falls to her death, and Hector is chased by the midwives and a possessed version of Jesse. Hector and Marisol go to Lois’ farm in search of Jesse.An unsuccessful exorcism is performed on Jesse, who, shortly after, kills his grandmother.Jesse makes contact with the childhood versions of Katie and Kristi.Hector and Marisol meet with Ali Rey who explains the midwives’ practice of marking unborn children for possession later in life.Jesse finds a picture of his mother while she was pregnant with him and she is with Ana and Lois in Ana’s apartment.He is granted supernatural powers such as enhanced strength and the ability to levitate. Jesse dreams of a farm with many women, and awakens with a bite mark on his arm.Jesse, Hector, and Marisol sneak into their recently deceased neighbor, Ana’s, apartment, finding instructions on how to create portals through space and time.Ali, who was on a school trip returns home and finds their bodies. Katie goes to Kristi’s house, killing Daniel and Kristi, and leaving with Hunter.The possessed Katie calls for Micah, killing him before killing Hector. Hector, teleporting to 2006 from 2012, finds Katie in her kitchen.Katie is bitten and possessed, as Kristi was previously. Katie and Micah begin experiencing supernatural events.They choose to transfer the spirit onto Katie. Martine recommends the family perform a ritual to transfer the supernatural burden to another member of the family. Kristi is bitten by an unknown entity and subsequently possessed, exhibiting odd behavior and, at times, catatonic or violent.While visiting, Micah plays with Daniel’s new camera, later purchasing one of his own.Supernatural events, similar to what Katie and Kristi experienced as children, begin occurring in Kristi’s home. ![]()
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