SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

adonis98-743-186503 Jesse begins experiencing a number of disturbing and unexplainable things after the death of his neighbor. As he investigates, it isn't long before Jesse finds he's been marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity, and it's only a matter of time before he is completely under its control. It's far from a masterpiece and it definitely has it's problems for sure but like someone else said the film's ending was pretty damn creepy to say the least (especially the final shot of the movie). The next installment unfortunately was meant to suck. (6.3/10)

kosmasp Literally and metaphorically speaking. Though some might feel it never actually had a real up. But whatever you think of the Paranormal movies, they made their money. It's like that with every successful movie series. There are fans of it and those people who don't like the movies at all, which doesn't take anything away from what those movies achieved (something the Witch from Blair wasn't able to start, even despite all the financial success).So this spin-off or whatever you want to call it, plays in a different country, but has the same clichés and the same annoying behavior from the characters who are playing lead here. If you don't mind, there are moments of tension that are kind of genuine. Other than that you sometimes wonder what takes evil so long to finally get it going on ...

schalazeal-00917 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

Roman James Hoffman Love it or (more often) hate it, there's no disputing the fact that (along with the 'Saw' franchise, which is arguably more slasher/torture-porn), and despite the fact that it owes an awful lot to 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) in its found-footage conceit, the 'Paranormal Activity' horror franchise has defined horror since the first one back in 2007. Since the major success of the first movie each subsequent sequel up to 'Paranormal Activity 4' has enlarged its internal universe with story lines following on from the events of the first movie as well as, more impressively, story lines which both flesh out a surprisingly cohesive and eerie back-story.'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' breaks a little with this tradition. Instead, describing itself as a "cousin" to the first four movies, this film takes a sideways step from the events surrounding the family of Katie and Kristi and chooses to change its setting to a socially deprived Hispanic community. The found-footage conceit is still in place but the change of setting is refreshing and yet loses nothing of the chill factor as we watch three friends become embroiled in these dark machinations: one of whom, Jessie, is a "marked one" and whose personal transformation we follow.So…is it scary? Umm, well, in bits. The main hallmark of the franchise is the quiet-quiet-quiet-LOUD jump-scare. Something which infuriates many in its predictability but which nonetheless remains effective…something like the Big Mac of horror movie scare-tactics. And for better or for worse, these remain in place. However, I found the overall atmosphere of the first thirty or forty minutes actually quite creepy. However, this tension dropped off considerably after this point so that by the time the climax at the creepy house from 'Paranormal Activity 3' (my favourite of the franchise) there was little left.Still, this is not to say that I was bored. I just wasn't scared.Overall, I think it is an interesting installment of the continued 'Paranormal Activity' experiment, one which goes a long way to unlocking the events that preceded it and also one which lays groundwork which continued installments can build upon. However, herein lies the failing: I think the movie would offer very little to a viewer not familiar with the previous films…while for those who have seen the previous films, things just seem very, very familiar.