'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' Scares Up No. 1 Place On Its First Day In Theaters

'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' Scares Off Box-Office Competition
This photo released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from the horror thriller film, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones," written and directed by Christopher. B. Landon. The film releases in the US on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures)
This photo released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from the horror thriller film, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones," written and directed by Christopher. B. Landon. The film releases in the US on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures)

The biggest mistake made by the disappointing "The Blair Witch Project" sequel "Book of Shadows" was in assuming that the success of the first film was a fluke, that people wouldn’t line up again to watch a bunch of simpering, slobbering hikers shake a camera around in the woods and get the life scared out of them.

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