Manages to breathe some new life into the redundant franchise while also threading connections to the series' past, though also deviates quite a bit from what made the series so beloved in the first place.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Does a good job of building tension in the last twenty minutes while delivering an ending that brings the series full circle and will tickle fans who have seen all the movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones loses the essential mojo that made "Paranormal" a box office phenom.

| Nov 29, 2017

The scares are effective and unsettling, and work better because they depend less on the Where's Waldo? compositions of the other sequels and more on character dynamics.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2016

Hands down, The Marked Ones is absolutely relentless, creepy as hell and a ton of fun on the big screen- it totally surprised me and left me with my enthusiasm for the PA series renewed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

This film is not scary, it's simply an exercise in waiting for a loud, ear piercing musical cue that forces us to be startled.

| Original Score: D | Apr 23, 2015

The law of diminishing returns mean this is now an exercise repetition: the tricks have all lost their power to terrify and The Marked Ones is just a vaguely spooky shadow of its a former self.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2014

A great effort, but a sub-par horror film.

| Apr 28, 2014

Overall, it's an unbalanced film, with several laugh out loud moments and thrilling action sequences, but it lacks the memorable scares required for this to rate any higher than an above average horror film.

| Original Score: 13/20 | Feb 7, 2014

The Marked Ones doesn't just call back to previous Paranormal Activity films, it feels like a journey through the evolution of the subgenre as a whole.

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2014

This latest instalment in the found-footage, domestic-horror franchise opts for far greater supernatural silliness than its predecessors.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 28, 2014

As with the previous two installments in this super low-cost, super-lucrative horror franchise, the video verite technique is very effective in creating the feel of spontaneity before delivering some very well-engineered shocks...A great date movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2014

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is written and directed by Christopher Landon, son of Michael Landon, whose Little House on the Prairie pantry must have been stocked full of a very small number of original ideas and a large quantity of fine weed.

| Original Score: F | Jan 25, 2014

More sidebar than sequel, this interesting fifth film in the found-footage fright franchise attempts to reboot (re-boo?) the series by relocating the supernatural action to a low-income but vibrant Hispanic neighborhood...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2014

There's no getting past the nonsense formality of taking that camera everywhere.

| Jan 17, 2014

A noble (yet failed) attempt to shake up the Paranormal Activity series...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2014

For a franchise whose creepiness bona fides have relied primarily on slow builds and letting the viewer soak in the frame, this film is awfully dependent on stock-issue jump scares

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 10, 2014

The unusual honesty about the film's reason for being is about the only thing passing for real freshness here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 9, 2014

Yeah, this movie's a dog, but you can't blame the producers for strip-mining the same old fool-proof formula to death... and beyond.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 9, 2014

There are smatterings of clever touches but eventually it all degenerates into the same old, same old demonic shenanigans. The truly terrifying part is that the audience for this kind of trash doesn't care.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 9, 2014