2014 Directed by Christopher Landon
Seventeen-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 their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.
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Alright, let me get this straight.
This is...
1) The only film in the series with an actual plot.
2) The only film in the series with an actual structure.
3) The only film in the series with proactive characters instead of merely reactive ones.
4) The only film in the series where characters actually spend a decent amount of time outside.
5) The only film in the series where the characters are all fairly intelligent and immediately take the paranormal threat seriously instead of just all calling each other liars.
6) The only film in the series that actually takes advantage of continuity.
...And this is the one that Letterboxd hates and thinks didn’t do anything different?
Wow, words escape…
Record ghosts witches repeat.
Record ghosts witches repeat.
Record ghosts witches repeat.
Record ghosts witches repeat.
Record ghosts witches repeat.
This franchise in a nutshell.
The only scary thing is that they managed to make it even more boring than the previous one.
The only screams it will raise will be you screaming: WHY THE HELL IS THAT IDIOT STILL FILMING??!!
Can't wait for part 5.
Why do these films carry on? They do make a lot of money but it's the same fucking thing over and over again, it's not funny anymore. The money that is always made from these movies or the certain film budgets of all the paranormal activity films combined should have been used on creating some better films, but no they waste it on absolute bullshit like this, I'm being generous and giving this half a star but really it should get no stars at all, I'm completely baffled as to why people love these films, and I have never known so many films nowadays with the word 'paranormal' in it's film title. To the people who love the franchise or…
Many of you are probably wonder why I saw this. Well I had a free movie pass that had to be used by today. Why it had to be used by January 3rd, I have no flipping idea. BLAH!
Well this was better than the first abomination of a film that came out in 2013. Seriously, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This Paranormal Activity was better than the last one. It wasn't totally awful. I must admit some cheap jump scares got me. Compared to this time last year, right now 2014 is starting off better! WHOOP WHOOP! But yeah, they need to stop making this garbage series.
A sort of side-quel in the running-on-fumes "Paranormal Activity" found-footage franchise, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" explores some of the previous films' mythology to very limited results. Here, the go-pro and video camera-provided footage focuses on two young men and the mysterious goings-on in their apartment building.
Plot details include a coven of witches, demonic presences that can communicate through the electronic game, Simon, and various curses. The narrative tries to be more cohesive than the previous entries in the series, but still ends up being an unclear batch of undeveloped story ideas. The scattered execution does not help matters. There is the occasional jump scare and spooky image, but the film provides more or less the same level of…
Damn I forgot how much I enjoyed this one
And there’s me from the end of last week giving up on the series. Naughty past me.
Nah I was right but I liked the teens in this one, I would’ve watched a normal movie hanging out with them, no story meandering nothingness of a movie, yeah I would’ve dug that.
How many 5th movies in a movie franchise are any good? Star Trek V...the worst one, Die Hard 5....probably killed the franchise, Rocky V....just horrible, Jack Ryan...even Captain Kirk could not save it, Star Wars 5...Attack of the Clones is almost unwatchable... So could the 5th in this series, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones buck the trend and actually be a good movie? That would be a no!
The first half of the movie was entertaining....as Jesse (the one being messed with in this movie) is actually having fun with his demon/ghost. The second half of the movie is dreadful and confusing. I admit that I have not seen parts 3 and 4 ....so I hope the people that have…
Franchise is still alive and kicking! Nothing extraordinary but still manages to amuse me!
It's got a little south of the border flavor to it that definitely kicks it up a notch!
I feel like each Paranormal Activity flick gets less and less entertaining and moves more and more towards pretty uninspired mediocrity. Yet I keep watching them, I guess hoping for the franchise to once again stir up anything in me but boredom...
I really feel like that ending should've intrigued me, but it unfortunately had no such effect.
every time i watch this i laugh when i get to the part where hector says he sharted & asks marisol to help him clean it up. im six years old and it rules
"Can I get a kiss on the cheek? The thing is, my cheek is right above my testicles." - Hector,
That's the sort of character development you get in this shitty fifth installment of the paranormal activity franchise. In addition, you have to suspend more disbelief than ever regarding the "you know, I think I'd put down that fucking camera" problem. Why won't any of these films change up the pace of the first act? By the fifth film it is so tedious to have to go through 25 minutes of watching people have stupid and mundane interactions when you already fucking know that they are about to get their asses haunted. DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! PLEASE! I WANT TO LIKE YOU! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
- Extra half point for a clever, if not mildly gimmicky, ending.
Paranormal Activity Ranked: boxd.it/26cKm
holy shit what a mood piece, total tension builder one of the most masterfully constructed genre pieces of the 2010s... 100x more intense&anxiety inducing than uncut gems
May favorite of the series. I thought the last 20 minutes and the tie in to the original worked really well.
7/10
A really fun and dumb ending saves a mediocre sequel
Written and Directed by franchise veteran Christopher Landon (Blood and Chocolate, Disturbia) Produced by Oscar Nominee Jason Blum (The Good Lord Bird, Whiplash) and starring a bunch of nobodies
When a young man becomes the target of a malevolent entity, he must uncover its true intentions before it takes complete control of him.
In November last year I watched the first four Paranormal Activity movies which ranged from Great, Okay, Good or Bad so where does this lands?
The writing which has a few merits because we are in a new location and a new set of people but it still has mentions of Katie and the ending ties into…
There is a part where they try to exorcist him with eggs and I apreciate that.
*Eggsorcism*
Characters describe everything like Youtube reaction channels.
At least they put a bit more scares in this one, some other PA movies have barely anything scary.
But the filmmaking/overall quality took a dive. Acting is poor.
Also at least 25 minutes too long.
Gotta admit the ending is like a virtual haunted house tour and there are few fun things but it's like 10 minutes in a 1h40m horrible movie.
Best ending of the whole franchise (thus far) but the movie itself is kind of meh. Seriously, the ending was so good.
Okay yo what the fuck apparantly this is the one that gets all the hate in the franchise but i GENUINELY liked this one and it was the only one so far in the franchise i enjoyed watching as well. it was a really refreshing shift in form after binging the previous movies and seeing the same formula movie after movie. i loved how fucking crazy it got and the ending and callback to the first movie one was amazing.
It comes as no surprise that this was just awful. By this point in the franchise we are so far gone from what made the original so good.
As soon as the guy started developing almost super human abilities I lost it.
The final couple of minutes could have been onto something good, but it just fell completely flat.
The only scary thing about this movie is the fact that they looked at this in the edit and thought “yeah, let’s release this in cinemas instead of straight to home video”.
Christ. I mean I thought the fourth one was bad but this takes the biscuit. There’s a goddamn Wilhelm Scream for Christ sake.
Literally the one, singular redeeming thing about this is the oddly placed connection to the first film at the very end. Apart from that, it completely sucks.
I can’t believe I went to the trouble of connecting to a french VPN server so I could watch this on Netflix.
⭐️½
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