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How are the events of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones connected to the narrative arc about Lois, Kristi, Katie, and Hunter?
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In the first Paranormal Activity, Micah makes a crack at one point about keeping Katie’s mother out of the house to ward off “negative energy.” Since Toby seems to kill Julie (Kristi and Katie’s mother) at the end of PA3 (back in 1988), who was pretending to be Katie’s mother-and why? Who’s the woman pretending to be Katie’s mother-and why? Might he make an appearance in Ghost Dimension? Julie’s husband may be dead, but it’s kind of curious that he’s mentioned only this one time. Katie and Kristi’s father is mentioned very fleetingly in PA3 when Lois says to Julie that the girls miss their father (Julie is living with her boyfriend, Dennis). Indeed, the animus of “Toby” and the witches seems to be violently directed against adult males (Micah in PA1, Dan in PA2, Dennis in PA3). Will the reason for her importance be revealed in Ghost Dimension?Īll fathers seem markedly absent in this franchise. This fact is particularly interesting given that PA3 makes it clear that, when they were children, Kristi was the object of Toby’s attention, not Katie.Ī refrain in the first film was that the demon “wants” Katie. Katie also makes an appearance in each of the five films, so she clearly has some sort of special role. The PA films are nothing if not highly gendered: women are recruited as witches boys are possessed by the demon, fodder for his “army.” But Katie (Katie Featherston) is not a witch she’s possessed-indeed, she’s the only female to be possessed. What explains Katie’s seemingly unique role? Will Ghost Dimension deliver that reason? But it does seem that, after five films, there should be some end point, some reason for it all. In the end, though, maybe the demon doesn’t need a reason to create a coven of witches, to gather an “army” (as they’re called in The Marked Ones) of possessed boys. But why? Is there a point to the taking of males, a reason for their possession? PA2 suggested it was all about making deals for power and wealth, but that suggestion seems to have been dropped. The Marked Ones reveals the protagonist Jesse to be one of these boys too-and his mother is shown in a photograph with Lois from 1994. In PA4, the mythology develops to include stories of male children being possessed by the demon, and the now-six-year-old Hunter seems to become possessed during the course of the film. The coven clearly pre-dates Lois, though, since, in PA3, Dennis shows Kristi and Katie’s mother, Julie, a photograph of a witch coven from the 1930s and reads from a book about a ceremony by which the witches would take the sons of pregnant girls, brainwashing them (it’s not clear if they brainwash the boys or the girls) so they remember nothing.
The suggestion is that Kristi and Katie’s grandmother (Lois), who is part of a coven of witches, made such a pact and so Toby now wants Kristi’s son, Hunter.
In PA2, Kristi’s step-daughter Ali reads something online about how people have been known to make a demonic pact by which they get power or wealth in exchange for offering up the first-born male in their family. Hints about what the witches and their demonic leader, Toby, want have been slowly doled out across all five films, but they are still not at all clear. Most pressingly, what do the witches (and Toby) want?
So, what questions do we have? As it turns out, I, at least, have plenty.
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The sixth and possibly final installment of the Paranormal Activity series (2007 – 2015), Ghost Dimension, is due out today (Friday October 23)-in limited release-and the word is it will answer all fans’ questions about the franchise.
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