In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I have actually seen worse movies than Marked, but I really have to agree with the previous reviewers that it is really difficult to sit through. To start with, it does look incredibly cheap to look at. The photography are editing are so haphazard that it is not always easy to decipher what is going on, while the film is often too dark in its lighting and the effects are slapdash at best. I too thought that the house was too small and nowhere near creepy enough to be convincing. I would have forgiven Marked for this if the story and script were anything worthwhile. But that was not to be. The script feels as though it was improvised on the spot, I actually want to hear dialogue that actually gives some kind of credibility to the characters and the situations instead of having something that sounds like an extended episode of Ghost Hunters(or something like that. The story is never exciting or suspenseful, it moves along at a snail's pace and because the haunts were so predictable and the ancient cult idea so ridiculously executed has nothing unsettling or shocking about it. The characters are annoying and very cold to the viewers, some like Mitch just disappear just like that with no explanation. The acting is pretty much non-existent, and can someone explain to me the significance of the title. So all in all, it really is a test for your endurance. 2/10, because I'm feeling generous and it didn't make me angry enough for me to warrant it a 1. Bethany Cox

Marked starts as a young woman named Diella (Tara Carroll) is attacked in her own home by a creepy man named Jake Matthews (Tony Suraci), however Diella's father comes to her rescue but in a struggle with Jake they fatally wound each other. Six years later & Diella is haunted by that night, the night on which her father died & ever since she has devoted herself to the study of paranormal research in the hope of proving the existence of ghost's. Along with a few friends from college & her brother Mitch (Samuel Child) Diella learns of Ameilia Gershom (Pepper Jay) who claims her house is haunted by her dead husband, together they decide to investigate the claims & set up various equipment, cameras & motion senors in hope of obtaining proof of paranormal activity. But all is not as it seems as Diella begins to realise that she is at the center of the haunting & that Jake Matthews might have returned to seek revenge for his premature death...Edited, written & directed by Dustin Voight this lame supernatural horror thriller tries to be clever & scary but doesn't come anywhere near close to being either, in fact Marked is an eighty five minute test of endurance as far as I am concerned. The script tries to have one or two revolutionary twist's & turn's but you can see them coming from a mile off, they are just so obvious because of the way the film is going. Is it really any great surprise that Diella encounters the ghost of Jake Matthews rather than the mundane spirit of Amelia Gershom's husband? No, it isn't. There's this annoying ending in which Marked just finishes rather than anything else, once Jake's evil ghost turn's up Diella just walks out of the house & then we see her in a mental hospital five years later at which point Jake decides to turn up suddenly just before the end credits begin to roll. What happened to Mitch? Why couldn't Jake leave the house back then but now can suddenly turn up at the hospital? Who cares. Marked is pretty slow going, there are far too many drawn out scenes of teenagers walking around dark houses & not enough time spent building the atmosphere or story, the sub-plot about the evil Professor & the ancient Apocrypha cult & legends seem half hearted & again all too predictable that they will have some sort of relevance as soon as they are mentioned.With little in the way of a script or story to keep one entertained Marked isn't even much fun to look at or delivers on the gore or scares either. There's a bit of blood, a couple of dead bodies are seen & someone has the back of their head ripped off in the films one single gore highlight but overall not enough happens. Although shot in full 2:35:1 widescreen director Voight decides to use a really annoying 'fisheye' technique at times whenever Jake is on screen that has these large black curved borders on either side of the side to create a sort of enclosed circle effect that sometimes closes in on character's faces & seems to obscure half the picture & becomes both distracting & annoying very quickly. It is neither stylish or cool, it looks cheap & nasty. Marked lacks any great sense of atmosphere, the haunted house is far too modern & small, it needed to be much bigger, much darker & more Gothic like rather than all wood panelling.Apparently filmed in Twin Peaks in California this looks like most low budget horror films these days, cheap & forgettable although competent to be fair. The acting is average, no-one stands out as being great while no-one stands as being awful.Marked is a boring, predictable & tame supernatural horror thriller that has lame twist's & lacks any sort of proper haunted house horror film atmosphere or scares. Definitely not recommended, Marked is an obscure film for a reason so lets keep it that way.

Diella (Tara Carroll), her skeptical brother Mitch (Samuel Child) and their friends Marcus (Sam Sarpong), Danny "D" (Rafael Rios) and Amanda (Samantha Alarcon) are ghost-hunters seeking evidences of existence of ghosts using sophisticated apparatuses. Diella is haunted by the death of her father six years ago and is encouraged by her college professor Dr. Frederickson (Mark Colson) to continue her research. When they visit the house of Amelia Gershom (Pepper Jay) that is haunted by her deceased husband, they get involved in an evil ancient cult of resurrection."Marked" is a pointless and silly horror tale. The plot is inconsistent and there is no explanation why the group invests lots of time and money searching ghosts, especially Mitch that does not believe in ghosts. Further, the story is confused and the ancient cult using the Apocrypha is sort of ridiculous. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Marca da Morte" ("The Mark of the Death")

I'm rating this one two out of ten because unlike a certain other Night Light production it's not insufferable, but there's still no reason you should watch it.For example, do you appreciate horror movies with characters who aren't stock archetypes? Characters you actually care about? Look elsewhere.Intelligent storyline? Nope.Suspense? Actual scares? No.Perhaps you'd simply prefer a lot of gore? Maybe inventive kills? Actually no; despite this being a slasher movie the killer kills in the same way repeatedly and it's one we've seen before.Maybe you're such a sucker for out-of-nowhere plot twists, it doesn't even bother you when, as is becoming increasingly common, they make no sense in context? Well, there's one such silly plot twist in this movie, but it has so little to do with what happens afterward I don't know why they included it.