MOVIE REVIEW - Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

This will be short and sweet. Can we just stop with the whole Paranormal Activity thing?  Please?

This is another installment of this incredibly successful franchise that is getting more watered down than stadium beer in recent years.  This bunch makes these movies on a exceptionally limited budget and rake in money that would make Bill Gates proud.  But this is clearly running out of gas.

This is another one of those hand-held camera, piont of view movies like the first 10,000 Paranormal movies.  This time it is set in the Hispanic area of Oxnard, California in June 2012.  There is this woman that lives in this apartment complex that everyone thinks is a witch.  She is killed and the young neighbors think it's fun to go into her apartment after her death. When they do, one of them is "infiltrated" by some paranormal entity that slowly possesses him and makes him dangerous to this family and friends.

In other words, it's just another rehash of the first movies, only targeting a different audience.  And then a feeble attempt is made to tie it into the first movie in the series.  The first movie was such and underdog and was so original, it kind of worked.  As this series has progressed it has not gotten better, just more tedious.  This is not scary, there are some new tactics though, and this does do a few things the first did not.  This is like running an old car into a dead end street with a concrete wall. This can't be saved.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.   Uncle!