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I think the problem The Marked Ones ran into was 1) it wasn’t the world everyone was used to and expected (when you think about it, how many movies produce spin-off movies set in the same world? Television, sure, but movies?), and 2) all the previous movies came up with original and plausible explanations for why everything is being recorded around the clock. I think the idea behind these movies is so strong, the possibilities for where to take it as the story progresses could be endless. I like the idea of spin-off movies and sequels.

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Unfortunately, this movie got panned so badly, they only made one more PA movie, and even that was given a very limited theatrical release.

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The Marked Ones, if I’m not mistaken, was supposed to be the first in a series of spin-off movies that would, presumably, expand on the PA universe and the mythology of the witches and the demons they seek to raise. Was everything that’s happening to Jesse predetermined while he was still in the womb? It’s beginning to feel like it. And, as Jesse discovered earlier, Ana and Jesse’s mother–who died giving birth to him–knew each other. Through a series of clues they’ve been following, Hector and another friend, Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh), track down Ali Rey (Kristi’s step-daughter, once again played by Molly Ephraim, from PA2), who tells them about a coven called the Midwives who brainwash young women into promising their first born sons to them so they can be possessed by demons. At first, he and Hector see this as some incredible gift, but soon Jesse’s personality begins to shift and he’s short tempered, arrogant, and even tells Hector “We’re not best friends.” He’s attacked at the park by thugs and something throws them through the air, off of Jesse. He tries to fall down, and something catches him in midair. From this point, he’s been marked, and is being protected by some invisible force. One morning after dreaming of more old women at some farmhouse (PA3), Jesse finds what looks like a bite mark on his arm. I admit this detail confused me because the videotapes were revealed to have been stolen from Kristi’s house in PA3, but how did they wind up in Oxnard 6 years later in the possession of this old woman?

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The only thing of substance they find is an old journal full of information on witches, and a box of old videotapes marked KATIE AND KRISTI. Later, Ana is murdered, and Jesse and Hector decide to break into her apartment and look for clues. What they see excites and disturbs them: Ana has a naked woman in her apartment, and she’s painting a strange symbol on the woman’s stomach. Jesse and Hector hear noises coming from downstairs and they lower the camera into the air vent to spy. Jesse and his friend Hector (Jorge Diaz) begin videotaping everything, which makes it much easier to get the events on film when Jesse’s downstairs neighbor Ana, whom everyone in the apartment complex thinks is a witch, is performing what looks like a ritual in her apartment. We’re introduced to Jesse Arista (Andrew Jacobs) as he graduates high school and receives a small video camera as a graduation present. It’s connected, but we’re removed from the California–or in the case of PA4, Nevada–suburbs we’ve seen so far, and instead are in a small Latin community in Oxnard in 2012. The movie, the fifth in the series, is considered the first–and only–spin-off of the main series of movies. But leaving the theater after seeing Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, she made it pretty clear this was the last PA movie she was going to. And for the most part she’s been very forgiving. Over the years, I’ve taken my wife to some pretty horrible movies. Rating: The Spin-Off that Killed a Franchise