![]() ![]() B-minus exorcism epics like Season of the Witch (2011) and The Devil Inside (2012) or the zillionth remake of a horror classic - last year’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D - provide reminders that the business of Hollywood is business, and one of the best ways to make quick money is with horror for the teens. (READ: The Paranormal Activity phenomenon)Īfter a month of films whose December release dates announced their intentions as Academy Award candidates, the first weekend in January traditionally offers moviegoers a respite from cinematic worthiness. Mind you, one sound is understood in any language: a scream. This gives the series, which seemed to jump the shark, or the shock, with the last episode, a jolt of energy. Jokier and more sexually charged than its predecessors, with some of the dialogue in Spanish, this is Paranormal Activity, Univision-style. After four PAs on consecutive Halloweens, the new movie is not exactly a sequel - PA 5 is due this coming October - but more a grafting of the familiar fright mechanisms onto the more robust L.A. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, the latest installment of the found-footage horror franchise that began in 2009, takes a detour off California‘s Highway One from the nice white people getting haunted in suburban Los Angeles and lands in heavily Hispanic Oxnard. Not good - for Jesse or any of his friends. More seriously, “Are you my guardian angel?” Another beep: Yes. “Do you think I’m handsome?” he asks, laughing. ![]() Follow (Andrew Jacobs) wants to contact an unearthly spirit he thinks has begun to inhabit him, so naturally he uses the old electronic game Simon as a medium. ![]()
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