It's perhaps their first brush with the otherworldly, but certainly not their last. Intrigued by strange noises they hear through a vent, they thread a camera inside it and capture neighbors engaged in some naked ritual. The Marked Ones centers on Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz), two best friends who have just graduated high school together with the Class of 2012 in Oxnard, California. Christopher Landon, who wrote that film and the two sequels before it, gets promoted to director on Marked Ones in addition to serving as its only credited scribe. The reviews were also worse than those of any installment but the deservedly maligned Paranormal Activity 4. At the same time, its returns were by far the brand's lowest to date. Grossing over $86 million worldwide on a production budget of just $5 million, Marked Ones must be considered a success commercially. Instead of the usual pre-Halloween debut for a sequel, Paramount released spin-off film Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones to theaters in January, a month when movies are expected to be bad and one in which they can succeed despite a lack of quality. In fact, the absence of a new Paranormal installment did not signal the end of an era but a change in strategy. ![]() It may have looked like surrender, much like the one that Lionsgate eventually,īegrudgingly gave their Saw franchise whose thunder the even more frugal and fruitful Paranormal series stole. Last October marked the first since 2008 in which Paramount Pictures did not have a Paranormal Activity film in theaters.
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