This then leads to a pretty cool and intense scene with Hector and Jesse as they search for Oscar, who lands on a nearby car after jumping off the roof. Oscar warns Jesse that soon the force will want to take over his body and the only way to stop that is taking their own lives. Though one night, the two return to Ana’s apartment and find Oscar, who had apparently been staying in a hidden section of the house. After being attacked by thugs, Jesse discovers that he has been given supernatural powers- including the ability to levitate, as well as telepathy- which he and Hector use for entertainment, recording the stunts and posting them online. She warns the teens of the dangers this can bring them and insists they discard it. One night, the trio ultimately contacts a spirit through a Simon game, which Jesse’s superstitious grandmother Irma ( Renée Victor ) is immediately against. This prompts Jesse and Hector, along with their friend Marisol ( Gabrielle Walsh ), to enact one of these rituals, which sets all the Activity into motion. After the police exit the crime scene, the group of teens investigate Ana’s apartment and find all sorts of unnerving imagery and a notebook containing spells and portals to other dimensions, along with some videotapes and the like. Soon after, Ana ( Gloria Sandoval), Jesse’s creepy neighbor, is found brutally murdered in her apartment, while Oscar ( Carlos Chalabi )– one of Jesse’s old classmates– is seen fleeing from her house. After buying a camera with some graduation money, the pair spend their time recording each other goofing around. Marked Ones follows Jesse ( Andrew Jacobs ) and Hector ( Jorge Diaz ), two longtime best friends trying to make the most of their summer. By inserting the sequel into a primarily Latinx community and urban backdrop, it gave us a different set of characters and opened the possibilities for something more interesting than more of the same, old group of Caucasian families getting spooked in a big house. Released in 2014, Paranormal Activity 5 gave us something wholly unique. Over time, the scares grow more and more intense until our characters are inevitably met with horrifying demises. Usually the first few nights are filled with little-to-no action, as it’s used for establishing the characters (some would argue a bit poorly) and setting the tone of the film.
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After a series of strange occurrences, the families use cameras to document what they’re experiencing. The first four films pretty much utilized the same beat-by-beat premise, following a white, upper middle-class family living in a large, suburban home. However, by the time of the release of the fourth installment, something was starting to become very clear: these Paranormal movies were looking and feeling all the same. So began the tradition of releasing a new installment almost every year, satisfying the hunger that both mainstream audiences and genre fans were beginning to crave.
With the overwhelming success of the first film– and backing from multiple producers– sequels to the handheld-phenomenon were eagerly demanded. But in 2014, the Paranormal franchise may have had a similar plan in mind when the fifth entry in the franchise came along, the underappreciated The Marked Ones - it may have just been a few years ahead of its time.Īs history goes, the first Paranormal was released in 2009 and would soon become a smash hit.
More filmmakers of color like Jordan Peele and Karyn Kusama are at the genre forefront– leading the charge into the next decade– and they’ve introduced fresh perspectives and characters that come from different cultures and backgrounds, adding to the brand of inclusivity we’re now seeing more of. Since then, horror as a whole has come a long way. Its wide-release debut brought the once-dormant found footage subgenre back into the subconscious and helped spawn a plethora of imitators that would attempt to emulate and capitalize upon its narrative success.īut as quietly disturbing and as memorable as Paranormal may have been, the diversity within its cast was far from remarkable. This year marks 11 years since the first Paranormal Activity film scared its way onto the horror scene, and there’s no denying how much it shook up the genre.
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