The Slender Man

Where did it all go wrong? Blast!

Slenderman has limitless potential as a film but after Slender (2016) I started to fear it was potential that would never be met.

The first 15 minutes or so of The Slender Man had me gripped, this was well made and genuinely scary stuff. Truly scary and I don't say that very often.

Then to my horror it all fell apart and this movie which I was beginning to think was going to turn into something special turned into another found footage film and an utter mess.

The plot makes little sense, the pacing is disastrous and all the magic from the start of the film flickers down to nothing.

I believe Slender Man will get a great film one day (Or has one already I haven't seen) this however is not that film.

The Good:

Genuinely scary in places

The Bad:

No rhyme or reason why people are recording most of the time

Poor audio balancing

Incoherent plot

Front cover makes him look like a gothic Koro-sensei

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

If you're going to kidnap children, doing it during the day in the middle of the street seems like a good call

I wanted to die when i was watching this truly terrible movie. It has one of the worst acting out of the FF genre that it was like they were reading their scripts for the first time. People throw slack at the new one but at least that one had the title character in it, unlike this one. I usually give "objectively" bad movies a good score cause of my own tastes and stuff but oh my god was this just terrible!

A solid attempt at making a horror film about an urban legend called Slender Man (first time I heard about it, but it sounds kind of intriguing). I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the special effects used for depicting the Slender Man. Yes, he appears very briefly on screen, but looks well made (this is an extremely low-budget movie, so I wasn't expecting him to appear at all). The rest of the movie was just your standard "found footage" horror, unremarkable and mostly dull, only slightly more interesting toward the end.

Can't say I would recommend this to anyone but hardcore fans of "found footage" horror movies like The Blair Witch Project. It's mostly boring and acting is unconvincing, but considering it's very low production standards, it could have been worse.

The value of the dollar may have fallen exponentially over the past hundred years, but that is only half the story. Today, people are walking around with computers in their pockets that would once have required an entire room to generate such power. This means that ordinary people can make excellent quality films and share them through social media, even if they don't make any money out of them.

"The Slender Man" is said to have been made on a budget of $10,000, which is clearly an estimate, and an over-estimate at that. One should therefore not expect too much of it. The character on which it is based is said to have originated only in 2009, although doubtless there are precursors worldwide in various cultures. Leaving all that aside, does this supernatural mystery succeed? To be diplomatic, far worse films have been made on far bigger budgets, but the cast better not give up the day job in the meantime. The same cannot be said for the soundtrack composers though.

Of course you have to take in consideration pretty much everything when judging a movie, and first thing that comes to mind is the budget, but even with a micro one, The Slender Man is very bad.

So, the plot, clearly could have been written by a 10 years old who saw some Freddy and Jason movies, it is so weak you won't believe it as it plays along. Characters were cardboard tops, no scares whatsoever, extremely little views of the Slender, very dumb decisions taken throughout the entire movie and one ending that will make you weep.

I had my share of bad found footage, but this one is top 10 worst ones clearly. If the project itself was a hat too big, or it required a decent budget, then don't do this. Don't ruin it for others just so you can put your name on a movie called The Slender Man! It was horrible!

Boring, bad, predictable and sad. Sorry to say so, but this one right here is an bad example of found footage. Cheers!