The year is 2012 and the world had not yet ended (as we later find out). Anyway so we meet Jesse (played by Andrew Jacobs), a high school graduate who lives with his father, sister and grandmother in Oxnard, California. He spends his summer hanging out with his best friend Hector (played by Jorge Daiz) and in an apartment below, they discover a woman called Ana (played by Gloria Sandoval) who everyone believes is a witch. She is later found dead and when fellow classmate Oscar (played by Carlos Pratts) runs away from the scene, everyone believes he is responsible. Jesse and Hector investigate the apartment to find some pretty unusual things and from that point on, strange paranormal activity happens which causes one of them to gain superhuman powers and the other to witness various events from previous films as they occur. No one is safe.
When I first heard about this film, I had high hopes that it would get the franchise back to full form. While breathing some new life into it by having little to nothing to do with the other films despite the references and appearances of things from previous films managed to do well, it ultimately fails with a boring and long opening and the activity is a tad predictable. So maybe not the film we were wanting, but at least it tried something new that previous films haven't done yet. Maybe the final film will give it the ending it deserves. We shall see when I get around to watching it. 7/10
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