![]() Our victim is Jesse (Andrew Jacobs), whose family has a dog named Chava that, of course, is a Chihuahua (get it? In the movies, Mexicans only have Chihuahuas as pets, in the same way Italian families only eat spaghetti). But bitching about clichés on a Paranormal Activity movie is like renting a rat-infested apartment and then complaining about rats-you know what you were getting into, and if you find it stupid that these vatos never let go of the camera in the middle of a bloody supernatural attack, all you can do is shut up and keep watching: you deserve it (I know I did). Yes, it’s funny, until it stops being funny and goes back to the cliché-after-cliché nonsense the masses love so much. The acting is above average and the spirit of the barrio is well-captured in those first scenes. It starts promisingly and, even though it loses team midway through it, it’s the funniest of the five chapters (the “official” Paranormal Activity 5, which will actually be the sixth chapter, is coming up later in 2014). Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (the first one directed by series writer Christopher Landon) is a radical change of gears: bilingual hand-held mayhem with a mostly all-Latino cast. ![]() ![]() That’s what immediately hooked me to the new Paranormal Activity installment, which is not a sequel-sequel but more like a spinoff of a found-footage idea that didn’t need a sequel in the first place. If Mexicans are going to fight ghosts, they better be the toughest Mexicans you can find-Oxnard, that is, the place where most badass Latino boxers come from or train at in Southern California. ![]() Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) taking crusty eyelids to a whole new level. ![]()
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