Paranormal Activity : The Marked Ones (2014) 7/10

Starring : Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz, Gabrielle Walsh, Renee Victor, Noemi Gonzalez
Director : Christopher Landon
Running Time : 102 mins

After spying on his neighbour who soon turns up dead, Jesse (Jacobs) sneaks into the abandoned house and finds black magic paraphernalia. Soon strange things start to happen to him and he appears to develop telekinetic powers, and it isn’t long until he and his friends realise that he is slowly being possessed by a malevolent spirit.

It’s refreshing to have characters that aren’t connected to those in the original few movies of the series (though of course they show up towards the end), and the twist on a person being obviously possessed from the get-go made this a little more original than the previous sequels, but the found-footage theme of the series is getting a little too convenient for my liking. Fans of the series will enjoy this, but it is a little hokey in places, and some of the effects actually made me chuckle, specifically the shot-gun moments.

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