![]() And yet, again and again, they sneak into Anna's apartment to continue their filmed investigation. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones 17-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor's apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover the source, he encounters an evil that won't rest until it's claimed his soul. Rent/buy Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones on Amazon. ![]() The three kids discover, sitting around one of those old low-tech electronic Simon devices one night (a fun throwback detail), that the device appears to be tapped into the paranormal spirits, acting like a Ouija board, answering "Yes" or "No" questions, to the astonishment of the three kids huddled around Simon. Stream Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones on Paramount+, on Pluto TV, or on IMDb TV. Jesse and Hector loop in one of Jesse's cousins, Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh). There are some legitimate scares, although most of them are of the "It was just a cat!" variety. Naturally, the boys have to break into her apartment (now a crime scene) in the middle of the night to investigate. Why would those two naked ladies choose to stand in the exact spot where the camera can pick up the action through the grate?" The fact that what the boys observe is disturbingly ritualistic is erased by the reality of the real live boobs on display down there. ![]() Jesse has been hearing horrifying sounds from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient. Again, the "found footage" trope requires that you turn off your brain that pesters you with questions such as, "That apartment down there has four rooms. The activity is back and has claimed a new victim. The boys attach the camera to a wire, lower it through the grate, and, to their amazement, observe frumpy Anna, in the nude, painting a red circle on the stomach of a gorgeous naked woman. Weird moaning sounds and bumps come up through the grate at night. Soon, the boys become curious about Anna (Gloria Sandoval), a downstairs neighbor. Their energy together feels unselfconscious it doesn't feel like acting. The only reason this banal footage has any entertainment value is because of the two actors. They do shots of tequila with Jesse's feisty grandmother (Renee Victor). Hector draws a penis on Jesse's face while he sleeps. At first, they just film each other doing dumb stunts involving laundry baskets and staircases. The only thing they have any interest in is fooling around with their new video camera. Both have just graduated from high school and seem to have no plans, no jobs, no goals. Jesse (Jacobs) and Hector (Diaz) live in a crowded apartment complex, with multigenerational family members crowded into small rooms. CATHERINE TORIBIO nude scenes - 7 images and 2 videos - including appearances from 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' - 'L.A.s Finest' - ''. The puzzle which Jesse and Hector put together make them like sleuths who are clearly over their heads and pretty unintelligent in their reckless abandonment, something which audiences would never do even on their dumbest day.Evil spirits are up to their old tricks in "The Marked Ones", and this time the action takes place in Oxnard, California, in a working-class Latino neighborhood, a welcome change in style and feel from the other more generic suburban installments. Just like Jesse's wizardry, Landon's production gets away from him by making too many assumptions about his audience's supposed lack of creativity and intelligence. When things finally get ramped up in the third act, we're left with armed Latinos bearing shotguns and Mac10's as they take on the witches ala From Dusk Till Dawn. Rather than using the 'found footage' genre as a way to incite terror throughout the film, Landon bores us with too much character development in the first two acts and not enough scariness. We also like the possessed Simon electronic memory game that starts acting like a Ouija board for Jesse, but beyond that there isn't much else here of value. It works to varying degrees, perhaps encouraging newcomers to check out the previous films, something we'd advise against. In an effort to pull their best Marvel rabbit out of the hat, longtime Writer/Director Christopher Landon has tied this spin-off to the first two Paranormal flicks, including cameos by Part 2 actors Molly Ephraim and others.
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