Marble Hornets

What Marble Hornets is: A series about college kids who get caught up into some really, really weird stuff. Its slow, its confusing, but not just to us, to the characters to. We see what they see. We only know what they know. Thats /the point/.

What Marble Hornets is to people with no patience or understanding: Slow, boring, uninteresting, unfun.

Marble Hornets lost a bit of magic when it ended because - now for new viewers, you didn't get to see it progress. A lot of this series to me was waiting and watching for updates, eager to see what was next. At the height of this, I would say in 2012, it really was a community series. I remember staying up all night with friends, talking about theories, discussing new tweets and watching the entries together. Now you really can't do that, and its not the fault of THAC that it just lost that bit of magic.

But I digress. This series is slow at the beginning, weird at the middle, and absolutely insane at the end. I would absolutely recommend this series to anyone with a patience and maybe, you know, a love for seeing how the slenderverse started. Because this series freakin' pioneered it, lads.

Firstly I was largely unaware of the Slenderman mythos before starting this series but this did not effect my enjoyment at all.

Marble Hornets is a well made web series that does a great job of slowly ratcheting up the mystery as the series progresses. I think that series really starts off strong, with short but interesting entries and the perfect use of real life locations.

Unfortunately it does lose it's way a little as the series progresses due to the entries becoming unnecessarily long with large sections of characters walking around buildings/fields with nothing happening. These entries could have been edited down significantly and it would have given the series better pacing. The one caveat to this is that I started watching after the series had ended so I did not have to wait in-between entries for the next one to be released.

The ending is well done which actually came as a nice surprise and it wrapped everything up well.

Marble Hornets is well worth your time but just be prepared to slog through some of the longer entries.

Only yesterday did I find the you-tube show "Marble Hornets". It was recommended to me by a friend because I love psychological horror and mystery. These two words perfectly describe this show.

The show follows Jay, a young man who's best friend encountered a tall, blank faced creature in a business suit by the name of the Operator (or Slender Man) while filming his student film "Marble Hornets". Jay goes through the tapes in an attempt to figure out more about the creature, and is eventually forced to run from the seemingly unstoppable force as he begins to unravel the mystery.

Continuity is highly important and very well done in this series. Tiny things in the first few episodes come into play in later episodes. If you are like me and LOVE connecting the dots and consuming every detail, this show rewards your hard work.

The acting is a little spotty in season one (Entries 1-26), but does not detract from the story or experience. As season two hits the midpoint, the acting improves, and the story begins to unfold.

The shaky hand-held camera quality is really effective in adding to the disturbing atmosphere. The creators do an incredible job of building tension and giving you a sense of dread. I found myself searching every pixel on the screen for a glimpse of Slender Man.

One more small thing that I appreciated was the fact that there was close to no profanity, no sexual content, and very little actual gore. By throwing those factors out, the creators took on the challenge of making their series strong with good writing and editing, which really pays off.

Overall, this show scared me more than any modern day horror film has, and is highly reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's "Memento". If you want to be scared out of your wits, enjoy playing Sherlock Holmes and solving mysteries, or both, this is a must watch.

9/10

Everyone who knows The Blair Witch Project knows the incredible impact it has had on pop culture and the surrounding area it took place in, having the ability to bring a rich history into existence despite having been not known before the film. Marble Hornets attempts to do this with an established internet bogeyman (the Slenderman) and brings it to a level most would not have expected.

Marble Hornets, a youtube series about an abandoned student film with many hidden secrets to share before bringing in the narrator, Jay's own experiences into the story, shows an amazing aptitude into psychological horror. By showing very little of the mysterious tall, well-dressed being, and giving visual and auditory clues of his influence instead, the creators are able to add a perfect amount of tension, keeping viewers on the edge of their seat throughout the duration of each entry into the series. Viewers' minds will be reeling with questions as they watch, trying to uncover the mystery of the events shown.

Highly recommended for fans of horror and mystery, especially Lovecraft fans

The show is so memorable and creepy to me is because it doesn't rely on gore and cheap jumbscares to make you feel scare, instead it's rely on a sense of inescapabilty, because no matter what the character try to do, their fate are the same. The creator successfully created a show with no season is too bad or too good for the rest. In terms of narrative, it's so amazing to see a found footage web series can offers you great storytelling and incredible character development. The appearance of the main villain is so little but that's make every time he appears scary because it remind you how terrifying the monster truly is. The ending is haunting af.