Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is a 2014 American found footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Christopher Landon.

When Ana is found murdered, Jesse and his best friend Hector spot classmate Oscar running from the scene.

Ali had researched demons after her father Daniel and stepmother Kristi were killed and half-brother Hunter was kidnapped by a possessed Katie.

She tells them that Jesse has been "marked" by a worldwide coven of witches called "The Midwives", who have been brainwashing women to give up their firstborn sons to create an army of possessed young men.

After surviving the uproar in the house of Lois, Héctor, Arturo and Marisol took Jesse to an abandoned church, from where he supposedly successfully exorcised the demon.

Jesse suddenly appears with a shotgun and the police shoot him, while the whereabouts of Héctor, Marisol and Arturo are unknown.

Ali (Molly Ephraim), teenage daughter from the second film, makes a cameo here, as does the box of videotapes featuring childhood footage of the main protagonists in the series, sisters Katie (Katie Featherston) and Kristi (Sprague Grayden), whose lifelong experiences are with a poltergeist-like demon.

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1 in its debut weekend,[14] the film took a close second to Frozen (in its seventh week) with $18,343,611 at the North American box office.

The site's consensus states: "A change of setting breathes some new life into the franchise, but Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones fails to provide enough consistent thrills to justify a fifth film in the series".

"[19][20] Filmink Magazine critic Eden Caceda applauded the humor and action, but claimed that the spinoff "lacks the memorable scares required for this to rate any higher than an above average horror film.

"[21] Eric Goldman of IGN wrote that "The Marked Ones is another enjoyable chapter",[22] while HorrorNews.net praised the lead characters, writing "With an appealing pair of friends in the lead, [the film] provides the audience with a cast that they can root for, care for and fear for which serves the story and the series well".

Stating, "Fun, scary and remarkably cinematic within the found footage conceit, The Marked Ones might be the first Paranormal Activity movie that feels like an event film while you're watching it".