PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 5 (THE MARKED ONES)

Paramount Picture

Directed by: Christoper Landon

Starring by: Andrew Jacob, Jorge Diaz, Gabrielle Walsh, Renee Victor

It’s been a brand new year…the year of 2014…and this is my first review on this year. It feels too long since the last time I put Cherrie to this blog because I’ve been busy by some deadline…chased by publisher to give them a novel script about graveyard of Jeruk Purut…thanks God it’s finished and the first thing I did after that was going to the cinema and watch the next series of Paranormal Activity (ParAc)

Make a different perspective than ParAc 2,3, and 4 that using a child as main target of terrorize, in this 5th series Christoper Landon using a teenage of 18th years old Jesse who always get so curious about many thing on his neighborhood. The murder of Anna, the neighbor of Jesse, by Oscar on one night made Jesse want to know more about it and he take his buddy, names Hector to enter Anna’s house. They didn’t find interest thing in that house besides the murder spot which covered many blood. But after that night, Jesse got a strange mark on his hand.

Many strange things happened after he got the marked, the toy that can buzz itself when he talked to it, hovering in the air when he dropped himself, and invisible power that could threw pair of scumbag that want to take Jesse’s bag pack with force. Firstly, he found it was awesome thing but when he meet Oscar that warn him about the marked, and made suicide in front of him, Jesse could no longer accept all the strange thing and try to throw it out. But the curse already possessed him and he can’t get away easily so his grandmother and Hector had to find some help from a shaman priest.

The shaman priest gave an egg to her to exorcist the spirit inside Jesse, but they refuse. From that, the war began and Jesse managed to kill the old woman by pushing her through the stair. Hector and Marisol asking help from Arturo, Oscar’s brother who also a gang boss, to find and stop Jesse from being sacrifice at some haunted house that inform by Ali Rey. But they all got killed there by ghostly troops.

The series still makes bated breath while watching it, and I admired the expertise of the writer to connect the plot in this series to another, like when Hector entering the door of time which bring him back to scene on ParAc 1 when Micah was killed by Katie. But despite that, I think the suspense on The Marked Ones decreases, and the sighting of the ghost can’t be maintained.

I like ParAc 1, 2, 3 because they hold the sighting until the end of the story…truly at the end…so it creeps the audience because they don’t expected the monstrous face like that would appears. But on the marked ones, we could see the sighting at the middle scene, when Jesse entering Anna’s house to search his dog that lost inside the house, as a sighting of two little girl with spooky eyes.

Funny thing I’ve got when I watch The Marked One is when Hector shoot the wall that shrink and suddenly explode, with Jesse in front of it, right just after when Jesse’s grandmother scrub him with eggs that given from the shaman priest, the entire living room had mess up; picture was torn apart, chair was upside down, but there was no damage on the television at all, whereas the TV was place in the corner where the explosion had come. It’s a strange thing when considering LCD TV is very susceptible, little shock can damage the screen and that thing happened to my TV at home when my boy knocking our television by accidentally.

I don’t know about you, but I found out that Arturo, Oscar’s brother, was not truly a gang boss like Jesse and Hector said when they’re discuss about how terrified they were to report their tape about Oscar appearance on the night when Anna was murdered, because Arturo was the leader of vandal gang. When Marisol and Hector ask him for help it appears that Arturo only bring one of his friend…so much for the gang…if he’s really a gang leader, Arturo should bring a dozen men or more to demolish those who had killed Oscar. A dozen of gang member with arms against the supranatural forces of devil’s follower…that would make the battle much more interesting and become an interesting peak scene at the end of this series.