Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is a 2014 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Christopher B. Landon. Released on January 3, 2014 in the United States, it is the first spin-off of the Paranormal Activity film series and the fifth installment of the franchise. It is also Landon's second directorial film, after Burning Palms
Movie Details:
Directed by: Christopher B. Landon
Produced by: Jason Blum, Oren Peli
Written by: Christopher B. Landon
Based on: Paranormal Activity by Oren Peli
Starring: Jorge Diaz, Andrew Jacobs, Gabrielle Walsh, Richard Cabral, Noemi Gonzalez, Carlos Pratts, David Saucedo, Renee Victor, Micah Sloat, Katie Featherston
Cinematography: Gonzalo Amat
Edited by: Gregory Plotkin
Production company: Blumhouse Productions, Solana Films, Room 101, Inc.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date(s): January 3, 2014 (United States)
Running time: 84 minutes, 101 minutes (unrated cut)
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $5 million
Box office: $90,894,962
Source:Wikipedia n IMDB
Plot:
In June 2012, in Oxnard, California, recent high school graduate Jesse lives with his father and grandmother. In the apartment below lives Ana, who everyone believes to be a witch. One night, Ana is found murdered, and the police suspect that Oscar, a former classmate of Jesse, is the culprit because Oscar is seen fleeing from Ana's apartment before her body is discovered. Jesse and his friend, Hector, decide to find out what Ana's apartment looks like. They find black magic items, Santa Muerte items and a picture of Jesse. They also discover several VHS tapes—including tapes from the childhood of Katie & Kristi. They also find a journal of spells, including one that discusses temporal doorways that take people out of time and into evil and "unholy" locations. The next morning, Jesse finds a mysterious bite on his arm. Later, he and Hector are confronted by two thugs who attack them, but the thugs are somehow knocked out by Jesse. When they show the incident to their other friend Marisol, Jesse cannot remember how it happened. After some strange activity, he comes to believe that he has superhuman abilities. At a party, Jesse and Hector meet Penelope, whom Jesse takes to Ana's apartment in order to have sex. Penelope opens a trap door in the apartment and is attacked by Oscar as he emerges from it. Penelope runs away, and Jesse confronts Oscar, who has oily black eyes and an identical bite mark on his arm. Oscar tells Jesse that if they killed themselves they won't harm those who they love. When Oscar runs away, Jesse gives chase but is unable to prevent Oscar from leaping to his death. Jesse, Marisol and Hector inspect the hidden room below the trap door and find an altar draped in witchcraft paraphernalia as well as photos of Oscar, Jesse, and his family. One photo shows Jesse's mother, pregnant with Jesse, standing between Anna and Lois, Katie and Kristi's grandmother. Over a few days of increasingly strange activity, Jesse exhibits odd behavioral changes and becomes sullen, moody, and dark. The family dog, Chavo, disappears, and, believing that he hears it whining in the trap door basement in Ana's apartment, Jesse heads down to rescue his dog. A shadowy figure stands still without alerting Jesse as he enters the basement and calls his dog, but instead he finds the ghostly figures of young Katie and Kristi. Frightened, he tries to flee the basement but the hatch closes, trapping him. After banging on the hatch and shouting for help, Jesse turns his camera around as he hears young Kristi's voice saying: 'He's ready for you' accompanied by some distant crying noises. Sudden pounding footsteps race towards Jesse as the demonic shadow figure charges at him, unleashing a horrifying, animalistic roar that causes Jesse to scream in terror as the figure lunges at him. Jesse collapses and the camera falls on the floor, where nothing is heard before it cuts out. Soon after, Hector goes to visit Jesse and finds the word 'meus' (previously shown, the Rey house the morning after Kristi is dragged to the basement door) written on Jesse's bedroom wall. Jesse enters his room and coldly tells Hector they are not best friends. Hector, Marisol and Jesse's grandmother visit a Christian icon vendor where they seek help from one of its patrons regarding a method to "cleanse" Jesse. Later, back at the house, Jesse's grandmother attempts a cleansing ritual, but Jesse reacts violently by levitating in the air whilst tearing apart the living room. The following day, Jesse badly injures his grandmother by pushing her down the stairs. Hector and Marisol seek help from Oscar's brother, Arturo, and learn that Oscar had been in contact with Ali Rey, who had researched demons after her father and step-mother were killed and half-brother kidnapped by Katie. Ali tells Hector and Marisol that Jesse has been "marked" by a coven of witches called "The Midwives" who are using demons to create an army of possessed young men. Ali explains that Jesse's soul will be consumed by the possessing demon and that the Jesse they know and love will no longer exist. Ali gives Hector and Marisol an address where a final ritual is to take place. Hector and Marisol head to the address, but the car suddenly dies and the pair are attacked by a now fully possessed Jesse, whom they manage to knock out. Hector and Marisol decide to take him to the hospital but Hector's car is suddenly rammed by a truck. Hector and Marisol are knocked out and Jesse is taken by the truck driver. After regaining consciousness, Hector and Marisol return to Arturo and his friend, Santo, and ask for help to find Jesse. The group head to the address Ali gave them, which is Grandma Lois's house, where Katie's and Kristi's mother and her boyfriend were killed. There, they find stables in the yard and evidence to suggest that people were being held captive. An imprisoned woman springs up behind Marisol, pleading for help, when suddenly the coven attack, killing Santo. The black-clothed witches advance on Marisol, Arturo and Hector with knives but Arturo manages to kill several of them using his shotgun which allows Marisol and Hector to flee into the house. Hector and Marisol lock themselves inside Lois's home as members of the coven surround the house, blocking every door and window, trapping the pair. Hector turns his back on Marisol for just a moment and she disappears. He frantically searches the house for her when her dead body crashes through a glass ceiling. Jesse appears and lets out a demonic roar as he charges Hector and chases him upstairs into a room with a strange wooden door in it. The door frame is marked with the coven's triangular symbol and the handle is in the center of the door itself. As Jesse smashes his way through the door and into the room, Hector flees through this doorway. After some strange camera interference, Hector finds himself back in time at the household of Katie and Micah, on the night that Katie finally succumbed to the demon. Hector sees Katie descend the stairs and pleads for her to help him. Instead, she grabs a knife and screams for Micah, who runs down the stairs and attacks Hector under the assumption that he is an intruder. As Micah is viciously stabbed to death by Katie, Hector tries to flee from the house but is attacked and killed off-screen by a possessed Jesse, who unleashes a demonic roar and the camera falls to the ground. With the camera still rolling, a witch picks it up, staring blankly into it, then switches it off.
