No, it doesn't look as goofy as that sounds. It's his possessed buddy, somehow getting sucked into the wall and then violently spit back out towards the camera. Nervously searching around the room, he notices something strange happening in the corner by the television. His loved ones are trying to cleanse his soul when the "marked one" attacks, turning the apartment's lights out, causing his friend, who is recording everything on his trusty camcorder, to use the machine's night-vision scope. It's the beginning of the film's breakneck third act, and one of the main characters is going full-blown demonic possession. One sequence, though, displays just how much Landon-who's also written every PA film except for writer-director Oren Peli 's 2009 original-and his creative impulses have been rejuvenated. Landon to wipe the stink of PA4 off the minds of audiences in the series' latest entry, the kind of spinoff, but totally still canon, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (in theaters nationwide tonight at 10 p.m.). It doesn't take long for writer-director Christopher B. Even worse, PA4 mimicked many of the best things about the excellent Paranormal Activity 3, also co-directed by Joost and Schulman. Directed by the original Catfish filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the juggernaut, low-budget horror franchise's fourth entry signaled that the brand had run out of ideas. If 2012's Paranormal Activity 4 will be remembered for anything, which it shouldn't, it's for nearly killing the PA found-footage brand.
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