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  Review by Will Walker ★★★★★ 21

  Alright, let me get this straight.

  This is...
  1) The only film in the series with an actual plot.
  2) The only film in the series with an actual structure.
  3) The only film in the series with proactive characters instead of merely reactive ones.
  4) The only film in the series where characters actually spend a decent amount of time outside.
  5) The only film in the series where the characters are all fairly intelligent and immediately take the paranormal threat seriously instead of just all calling each other liars.
  6) The only film in the series that actually takes advantage of continuity.

  ...And this is the one that Letterboxd hates and thinks didn’t do anything different?

  Wow, words escape…

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  Review by DirkH ½ 24

  Record ghosts witches repeat.

  Record ghosts witches repeat.

  Record ghosts witches repeat.

  Record ghosts witches repeat.

  Record ghosts witches repeat.

  This franchise in a nutshell.

  The only scary thing is that they managed to make it even more boring than the previous one.

  The only screams it will raise will be you screaming: WHY THE HELL IS THAT IDIOT STILL FILMING??!!

  Can't wait for part 5.

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  Review by Sarah Collins ½ 11

  Why do these films carry on? They do make a lot of money but it's the same fucking thing over and over again, it's not funny anymore. The money that is always made from these movies or the certain film budgets of all the paranormal activity films combined should have been used on creating some better films, but no they waste it on absolute bullshit like this, I'm being generous and giving this half a star but really it should get no stars at all, I'm completely baffled as to why people love these films, and I have never known so many films nowadays with the word 'paranormal' in it's film title. To the people who love the franchise or…

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  Review by Tony the Terror 🎃 ★★★½ 9

  Up until Next of Kin came out, this was my favorite movie in the series. I’m really not sure why I like that one more except that maybe it drops the whole annoying Katie and Toby story, but I do.

  Still, this is solid and better than any of the movies that came before it! I like the setting in the Hispanic community and the main characters friendships all vibe well. The story is as engaging as you can expect for a movie in this series. I honestly wish they hadn’t tied this into the original story, but they did and it’s fairly creative for something that overall was unnecessary.

  Personally, if I had an apartment in the ghetto I would absolutely want it to be a demon time portal to hell…but I’d also kinda want that no matter where I live?

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  Review by single white femalien ★★★½ 10

  i like when the grandma says chake weight

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  Review by Shak Lambert ★★½

  What was good:
  -A cholo shooting witches with a shotgun.
  -Actually likeable characters
  -A cholo shooting witches with a shotgun.
  -Comedic moments that are actually chuckle-worthy.
  -A FUCKING CHOLO SHOOTING WITCHES WITH A GODDAMN SHOTGUN.

  What was bad:
  -Rip-offs of a LOT of better movies(mainly Chronicle and V/H/S)
  -The twist ending
  -Relies on tired-as-shit jump scares
  -really crowbarred connections to the previous movies in the series(the tapes from PA3, certain cameos, etc.)

  It's probably the most watchable of the series next to the first, but that ain't sayin much.

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  Review by single white femalien 12

  every time i watch this i laugh when i get to the part where hector says he sharted & asks marisol to help him clean it up. im six years old and it rules

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★½ 4

  Franchise is still alive and kicking! Nothing extraordinary but still manages to amuse me!

  It's got a little south of the border flavor to it that definitely kicks it up a notch!

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  Review by Evan ★½ 14

  Many of you are probably wonder why I saw this. Well I had a free movie pass that had to be used by today. Why it had to be used by January 3rd, I have no flipping idea. BLAH!

  Well this was better than the first abomination of a film that came out in 2013. Seriously, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This Paranormal Activity was better than the last one. It wasn't totally awful. I must admit some cheap jump scares got me. Compared to this time last year, right now 2014 is starting off better! WHOOP WHOOP! But yeah, they need to stop making this garbage series.

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  Review by pops baron ★★★★½ 5

  holy shit what a mood piece, total tension builder one of the most masterfully constructed genre pieces of the 2010s... 100x more intense&anxiety inducing than uncut gems

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★ 6

  A sort of side-quel in the running-on-fumes "Paranormal Activity" found-footage franchise, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" explores some of the previous films' mythology to very limited results. Here, the go-pro and video camera-provided footage focuses on two young men and the mysterious goings-on in their apartment building.

  Plot details include a coven of witches, demonic presences that can communicate through the electronic game, Simon, and various curses. The narrative tries to be more cohesive than the previous entries in the series, but still ends up being an unclear batch of undeveloped story ideas. The scattered execution does not help matters. There is the occasional jump scare and spooky image, but the film provides more or less the same level of…

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  Review by Marna Larsen ★★★★ 12

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I was actually pretty terrified when the camera pans across some shitty beaded necklaces being constructed at a craft table as that can only mean Katie is lurking about in the same 'elevated basics ribbed tank' as they r now known and boxers or 'the pantsless trend' as its now called (hadids make these descisions now; basic slobs have nothing to do with it) that she's been wearing since 2009 and I just really didn't fucking want to see Katie just then. (I'm really jealous she has all those DVD's to watch, though.)

  So, this movie actually accomplished two things I didn't think the franchise was capable of: making Katie scary and giving me characters that I actually felt like rooting for (even though you know it's pointless).