The demon in this one uses a musical children’s toy as its Ouija board. Inevitably, the most interesting change is that ‘The Marked Ones’ isn’t a whole lot different to the movies that actively ridicule the franchise, like ‘A Haunted House’ or ‘Scary Movie V’. A tortilla! A dancing chihuahua! A superstitious Latina grandmother, drunk on tequila! We’re not in middle-class suburbia anymore, gringo. Where this instalment’s change of milieu might’ve made for an interesting socio-economic allegory a la ‘Candyman’, it plays out like a checklist of Latin American stereotypes. ![]() She’s found dead a few days later, and their eerie high school colleague Oscar (Carlos Pratts) is thought to be responsible. ![]() Thankfully there are HDMI cables that let you slide the camera between the paper-thin walls of Jesse’s grandmother’s apartment and spy on your de-robed neighbour, Anna, which is exactly what Jesse and Hector are doing when her dealings turn out to be less-than-neighbourly. ![]() As far as I can tell, Hector spends most of the movie with the camera strapped to his head, which is unfortunate because he’s one of those people who voices his every thought.
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