tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post7699495968393211759..comments2022-11-11T07:08:58.715-05:00Comments on The Screaming Axe: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post-20030950327286153022015-10-16T15:16:04.582-04:002015-10-16T15:16:04.582-04:00Yeah, I was pissed when I loaded up my Netflix Wat...Yeah, I was pissed when I loaded up my Netflix Watchlist after October 1, only to find both Area 51 and PA: The Marked Ones nowhere to be seen. Luckily, the latter is available for free on Amazon Prime, but now I doubt I'll have a chance to watch Area 51 in the immediate future. I've also been wanting to watch The Purge and its sequel for awhile now, but it's hard to get a hold of. I saw a double disc edition at Walmart, but unfortunately, going from the lackluster reviews, I don't feel very inclined to shell out money for it...zharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995423745639356980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post-74726612632777711092015-10-16T15:08:26.116-04:002015-10-16T15:08:26.116-04:00I would be inclined to say your idea of a PA movie...I would be inclined to say your idea of a PA movie being a porno is absurd -- but then the use of nudity in the original V/H/S film was such a revelation, it was a real act of artistic genius. One thing that takes me right out of found footage movies is when they play so openly to the techniques of traditional filmmaking, and this happens so very often in terms of nudity: showing nude people just from the back, or just out of frame, or cutting to the next scene right before the nudity or sex happen. That's not how people act -- or film -- in real life. V/H/S used completely realistic nudity and that made it one of the more immersive found footage films. So while I don't care particularly about seeing nudity, I definitely support a return to that ideology in found footage. Sadly that dedication to realism hasn't made it into many films, including the VHS sequels.<br /><br />Glad to hear the Nightmare is good! It's been #1 on my to-watch list for this Halloween for months and I was afraid it wouldn't live up to my expectations. Actually I was ready to pay for it but luckily it has come on Netflix now. Sadly though, Oren Peli's Area 51 has been pulled, to try to drum up money during the Halloween season. A transparent tactic that I shall not indulge by renting the film.Tenzin Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05925867097747621833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post-73981187449351845102015-10-14T20:21:21.776-04:002015-10-14T20:21:21.776-04:00The Marked Ones certainly had no trouble connectin...The Marked Ones certainly had no trouble connecting itself back to each of the past Paranormal Activities, that's for sure. Katie, Ali, the two girls from PA3, and the witches' coven all made an appearance.<br /><br />You're right that the era for being excited about the PA movies has long past - I still think PA4 should have been a porno. That would've been something worth getting excited about.<br /><br />If you're looking for something to give you chills, I recommend The Nightmare, a documentary on sleep paralysis. Just watched it today on Netflix (review to come). Most scary of all is the fact that it's 100% real.zharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995423745639356980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post-65028629805777643772015-10-14T18:33:11.376-04:002015-10-14T18:33:11.376-04:00The box of tapes should be a tie in with V/H/S. An...The box of tapes should be a tie in with V/H/S. And then they can add [REC] ( the audio tapes from Rec 1/2) and Atrocious (the girl was possessed by Tobi) and we can have a found footage shared universe. Leading up to the battle with the Blair Witch. I'm only half-kidding, a lot of people wanted the mysterious fork in PA4 to belong to Ellie Kedward (the Blair Witch) and the PA franchise has spun so many tops that you could connect it to pretty much any franchise in a pretty logical way.<br /><br />I found this film to be quite serviceable but I ended up giving up on it about halfway in. I just have a hard time getting excited about this franchise anymore, knowing that it's just going to be some invisible ghost. Now if this was a film unrelated to PA and there's a possibility in my mind while watching that it could be some kind of flesh and blood demon or something, then it'd be a good movie. I mean, the scene in the bathroom stalls, that was pretty scary.<br /><br />You make a fair point about special effects -- maybe next time don't just give us an invisible ghost. It's fine for one or two films, sure. But going on the sixth film and by now we need to see something! When the franchise was based on our innate, personal fears of what goes bump in the night, not seeing anything was a strength. But now that they've switched gears into focusing on an actual mythology, that doesn't work anymore.Tenzin Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05925867097747621833noreply@blogger.com