USA Today’s Claudia Puig agrees that the sequel “injects new life into the tired franchise,” adding, “It’s a welcome update, qualifying as the best in the series since the first film captivated and unnerved audiences in 2007.” Granted, it “has convoluted sequences and moments that stretch credulity. It’s a fun fright film and wants to be nothing more.”
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It also has no such aspirations, as ‘The Marked Ones’ is refreshingly uncynical and straightforward in its desire to simply be a movie that makes the audience jump and be scared.
The change is sharp, giving the new film some much-needed freshness.” Regarding writer-director Christopher Landon, who also wrote for the earlier sequels, Olsen says, “His film doesn’t have anywhere near the formal inventiveness of the third or fourth ‘Paranormal’ films. The Times’ Mark Olsen is in the first group, writing, “The new film shifts from the suburban anxieties of the white middle class to a group of Latino teenagers in an apartment complex. While some movie critics feel that the new angle, which is aimed more heavily at young Latino audiences, has given the series a jolt of energy, many others find “The Marked Ones” more tired than terrifying. As the absence of a numeral and a non-Halloween date indicates, this weekend’s “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” the latest installment in the popular found-footage horror franchise, is not a direct sequel to “Paranormal Activity 4,” but rather a spinoff with a new story line, cast and setting.
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