Howell continues: “By now this rapidly deflating franchise should be titled ‘Paranormal Stupidity,’ because the characters insist on doing all the wrong things. The term is now indiscriminately applied to any movie that uses an excessive amount of hand-held camerawork, bad sound and ragged editing.” The Toronto Star’s Peter Howell has also had enough of the found-footage genre, writing, “The novelty has long been crushed like a Halloween pumpkin under a steamroller, thanks to countless imitators who also corrupted what ‘found footage’ actually means. The camera wildly pans one way, there’s nothing the camera wildly pans the other way, there’s nothing the camera wildly pans back and ohmygodthere’ssomething! … Does anybody really find this crap scary anymore?” Unfortunately, Ebiri says, “a change in setting doesn’t forebode a change in tactics, and this ‘Paranormal Activity’ still traffics in the same tired setups and obvious scares as the earlier ones. The Wrap’s Alonso Duralde writes,”While it’s exciting to see a hit series take on an almost entirely Latino cast as just a matter of course, the new zigs only barely balance out all the familiar zags.” He adds, “If you’ve already jumped off this bandwagon, or have considered doing so after the last few movies, there’s not much in ‘The Marked Ones’ that will compel you to follow the camera-operating protagonist down another dark hallway.”īilge Ebiri of New York magazine says “The Marked Ones” feels like a rehash of not only the earlier “Paranormal” films, but also “The Blair Witch Project,” “Chronicle,” “Project X” and “an assortment of other films that weren’t all that original to begin with.” It’s easy to become invested in the welfare of this charismatic cast and to feel trepidation when they encounter hazards.”īut plenty of other critics find themselves in the naysayer camp. But it also has more fresh humor, viable scares and character development than the past few sequels. 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.” 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. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.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. Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. International Cumulative Box Office Records January 29th, 2013 by Paramount Home Videoĭemons, Possessed, Found Footage, Scary Kids, Prologue, Intertitle, False Identity, Adopted Family, Filmed By a Character, Flashback to Previous Movie in the Franchise, IMAX: DMR, Supernatural, Supernatural Horror October 17th, 2012 (Wide) ( United Kingdom) October 19th, 2012 (Wide) by Paramount Pictures See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records. All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,601-1,700)Īll Time International Box Office (Rank 1,201-1,300)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 1,301-1,400)Īll Time Domestic Box Office for R Movies (Rank 401-500)Īll Time International Box Office for R Movies (Rank 201-300)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office for R Movies (Rank 301-400)
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