Tuesday 25 March 2014

Film Review : Paranormal Activity: Mark one

Genre: Horror  Thriller 

Director: Christopher Landon

Writer: Christopher Landon

Starring: Molly Ephraim , Katie Featherston, Meredith Eaton, Richard Cabral, Jorge Diaz, Micah Sloat, Eddie J. Fernandez, Andrew Jacobs.  

Cert: 15 cert

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Teenagers dance suggestively.
Various references to masturbation and sex.
A nude woman paints blood on another nude woman as part of a ritual. It's mostly blurry; however, one of them, a teenage girl, is seen from the front, boobs and vagina included. The other is seen from the back.
Two teens almost have sex. During this scene she lifts up her shirt and is only wearing a bra. She then says " I want you to fuck me hard". He then starts to unbutton his pants and starts pulling them down. She then asks if he has a condom. He runs upstairs and never returns.
A teen draws a penis on another teen's face. 

Violence & Gore:Loud noises are heard from the apartment below the main character as if the lady who lives there is in pain.
A nude woman paints blood on another nude woman as part of a ritual.
An old woman is murdered and blood is seen splattered along the walls and floor of her apartment.
A bite mark is seen on two character's arms.
Blood is seen on a teenage boy's bed sheets.
A teenage boy keeps a baseball bat in the back seat of his car because of the neighbourhood he lives in.
Two men attempt to steal a teenage boy's bag but are both violently thrown into the air.
A teenage boy commits suicide by throwing himself of a very high building.
A teenage boy gets attacked by a demon whilst looking for his dog who was making noises as if he were in pain.
A teenage boy aggressively pushes another teenage boy onto the floor and attempts to attack a shop owner.
Two young girls are briefly seen with their eyes missing.
A dog is seen levitating on the ceiling, whimpering in pain and trying his hardest to get away whilst a teenage boy watches and laughs.
A teenage boy pulls two long threads out of his eyes.

Profanity: Many uses of shit and fuck. Used very aggressively in one scene.
   

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: People drink alcohol at two parties (Including teenagers).
Two teenage boys smoke marijuana.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The first half of this film has a lot of jokes and doesn't take itself too seriously, however, when the main character realizes that what is happening to him is a gift not a curse things take a very dark turn and the film ends up being one of the darkest entries in the series so far.
The scenes with the main character's dog in pain, especially the second scene, can be very upsetting to certain viewers.
The last twenty minutes or so are very intense.


Story: Jesse begins experiencing a number of disturbing and unexplainable things after the death of his neighbor. As he investigates, it isn't long before Jessie finds he's been marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity, and it's only a matter of time before he is completely under its control...          

Likes : The first thing i can say is this is amateur at best everyone is saying this is scary, in so may ways no, intense maybe but sorry to say not scary, this franchise has complete lost its horror & scares iam afraid, ive seen much better horror film that this.
The first two film were good but sadly after the 3rd film these film stopped being scary & became predictable & a predictable horror isn't scary or spine chilling it just becomes very dull in nature you find your self drifting o do other things while watching it..Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is a spin-off, chapter, which is literally just the same as the rest of the franchise with the slight exception of location. No longer are we mercifully subjected to seeing the same living room, kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, hallways, staircases or chandeliers 50x with nothing going on. Instead, we're in the slums and a crummy apartment. I actually give the movie credit for that as its a change from everything we've seen before.
Sorry this film is seriously lacking horror & disturbing scene to say this film is any good, to be honest the only good thing is that it tied up scene to what happened at the end of the first film but that that all that was good, i cant recommend this for those reason as this is had potential but fail's to scare in every way possible.


Dislikes : This is the same old story: Someone who never knows how or when to put a video camera down watches as someone else gets very slowly possessed, does an extremely half-assed job of investigation and finally gets taken over blah blah blah seriously how many more do they have to do of these films before they realise its a boring film & no longer scary.

Overall : Sorry excuse for a horror due to lack of horror or disturbing scene, very dull & slow.

Rating: 2 out of 5 for entertainment / 3 out of 10 for horror & disturbing scene's




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