First off, Alex didn't leave the tapes on the camera he filmed Marble Hornets on. He gave Jay all of the tapes. So no, the ending of this movie does not tie into the series in any tangible way.
Past that, this movie just does not read as Marble Hornets at all. The Operator now fully possesses people and forces them to kill, something he never did in the series? The famous symbol is now a brand to mark his victims? No totheArk, no Hoodie/Masky, no mention of Jay or Tim?
The most concrete tie in to the OG is a split second shot of a missing persons poster for Alex Krailie, and that's it. Nothing else.
This all might be forgivable if the movie was any good but aside from one or two MILD shocks, it's paint by numbers found footage with zero personality. Maybe it's too much to ask that a movie based on a web series has any connection to the series, but if you're going to make a Marble Hornets movie...maybe make an actual Marble Hornets movie? Not some knockoff?
Ugh. MH deserved better.
Past that, this movie just does not read as Marble Hornets at all. The Operator now fully possesses people and forces them to kill, something he never did in the series? The famous symbol is now a brand to mark his victims? No totheArk, no Hoodie/Masky, no mention of Jay or Tim?
The most concrete tie in to the OG is a split second shot of a missing persons poster for Alex Krailie, and that's it. Nothing else.
This all might be forgivable if the movie was any good but aside from one or two MILD shocks, it's paint by numbers found footage with zero personality. Maybe it's too much to ask that a movie based on a web series has any connection to the series, but if you're going to make a Marble Hornets movie...maybe make an actual Marble Hornets movie? Not some knockoff?
Ugh. MH deserved better.