

The three kids discover, sitting around one of those old low-tech electronic Simon devices one night (a fun throwback detail), that the device appears to be tapped into the paranormal spirits, acting like a Ouija board, answering "Yes" or "No" questions, to the astonishment of the three kids huddled around Simon. Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to. Jesse and Hector loop in one of Jesse's cousins, Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh). R 1 hr 24 min Jan 3rd, 2014 Thriller, Horror. There are some legitimate scares, although most of them are of the "It was just a cat!" variety. Naturally, the boys have to break into her apartment (now a crime scene) in the middle of the night to investigate. Why would those two naked ladies choose to stand in the exact spot where the camera can pick up the action through the grate?" The fact that what the boys observe is disturbingly ritualistic is erased by the reality of the real live boobs on display down there. Again, the "found footage" trope requires that you turn off your brain that pesters you with questions such as, "That apartment down there has four rooms. The boys attach the camera to a wire, lower it through the grate, and, to their amazement, observe frumpy Anna, in the nude, painting a red circle on the stomach of a gorgeous naked woman. Weird moaning sounds and bumps come up through the grate at night. Soon, the boys become curious about Anna (Gloria Sandoval), a downstairs neighbor. Their energy together feels unselfconscious it doesn't feel like acting. The only reason this banal footage has any entertainment value is because of the two actors. They do shots of tequila with Jesse's feisty grandmother (Renee Victor). Hector draws a penis on Jesse's face while he sleeps. At first, they just film each other doing dumb stunts involving laundry baskets and staircases. The only thing they have any interest in is fooling around with their new video camera.

Both have just graduated from high school and seem to have no plans, no jobs, no goals. Jesse (Jacobs) and Hector (Diaz) live in a crowded apartment complex, with multigenerational family members crowded into small rooms. Evil spirits are up to their old tricks in "The Marked Ones", and this time the action takes place in Oxnard, California, in a working-class Latino neighborhood, a welcome change in style and feel from the other more generic suburban installments. Teenagers Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz) look forward to a carefree summer, but the murder of a neighbor leads to a terrifying encounter with the.
