Andariel Halo it's Slendy. Slenderman. I can't take it seriously because of that.that was basically my whole review, but if I had to add more to that, it's that it's basically all about a cameraguy for a local news outlet being stalked by Slenderman after finding videos from a vacant house of a family being stalked by Slenderman.Slenderman was/is a genius concept from its origin of a few photoshopped pictures with some simple backstory. Even the original game made years later was genius in its simplicity.this is just a flat, straight-forward telling of Slenderman made by some fans (not the original creator) without ever using the possibly copyrighted name. They don't do anything new with it or anything particularly innovative or different to make it worthwhile.Even the usual jumpscares that tend to get all people by being startling didn't work on me because every time I see it I grin goofily and say "Slendy", as if he were my buddy

WisdomsHammer No intentional spoilers.A little backstory: Marble Hornets is the name of a YouTube channel with found footage "episodes" based around the Slenderman mythos. The YouTube series felt like a student film or just a hobby project, but I found it entertaining and interesting. This movie, if I understand right, is based on that series but not a part of it. I don't see mention of the creators of the YouTube channel as a part of this project, but it felt very similar in experience.The premise was decent: A figure with a featureless face wearing a black suit can only be seen using a camera and follows people. Weird and bad things happen. Beyond that, there's no real meat to the story and it's not nearly as scary as it could be. The acting was not bad at all. I was pleasantly surprised by the performances. For a found footage based film, I think they did a great job of editing it down so you didn't get too bored watching it. I did get tired of the scenes where the characters were just yelling at each other, though. My biggest complaint were the Slenderman related scenes. The original, incredibly low budget YouTube series looked better and felt scarier! That being the bulk of the reason for and entertainment value of the movie, it's unacceptable that it was so poorly done. I could get past it because I like these kinds of stories and movies, but I don't think a lot of people will be as forgiving. It's basically a monster movie where the monster takes a backseat which is why I think fans of the Slenderman mythos and horror movies in general may be disappointed in this movie. I think people who like the Paranormal Activity movies will get some entertainment out of this, but if that's not your thing, this movie probably isn't for you.

GL84 Trying to develop a news story, a reporter and her crew intending to follow up a recent spate of home foreclosures instead stumbles upon a strange unseen supernatural spectre following them and must try to solve the mystery of his appearance before it's too late.For the most part this one here isn't really all that interesting or enjoyable. What really holds this one down is the fact that like so many other films of it's ilk the whole thing being presented as a found-footage effort really underscores so much of what's going on in this one. Forcing itself into all the usual trappings with this style gives this one such a rather bland and tired feel here where it's pretty heavily flawed just by the general sense of familiarity runs rampant throughout here. This one isn't all that original or creative in the genre and really doesn't do much to really differentiate itself from the usual tropes associated here by constantly failing to focus on something that should be front-and- center in the main part of the frame, getting way too many shots that wouldn't occur unless someone was specifically trying to make a film of this caliber on purpose as well as the ever-dreaded scenario of managing to keep filming in scenes where a person's life is in danger which is quite a troubling issue here with this one as this leads into many scenes with utterly troubling and infuriating behavioral choices designed to push the film further along rather than anything to save themselves. The shaking camera that keeps running throughout the film never helps either as there's so many potentially amazing scenes ruined by the inability to properly tell what's happening during the action. Still, the root cause of the film's problems lie in the fact that this one just doesn't have any real fear or terror in its lead. If there was no mention of who he was in the film's promo materials you wouldn't know who he was in the film proper as it never explains who he was, how he came into being and why he's targeting the troupe here makes for a series of questions about what's going on with this one as there's nothing given here about that main villain which just takes so much fear out of this one. Lastly, the film's pacing is so off here that it seems to take forever in setting up an encounter or attack by the mysterious figure yet it breezes by without much difficulty in that it manages to remain watchable despite nothing happening at all as it seems to focus a lot more on simply getting them to yell and argue with each other over his sanity rather than showing why it's deserved or even setting up chilling encounters on its own. This results in a large discrepancy here with the pacing really being another big factor holding this one down. There's a few solid parts to it, as the central idea gleamed from what's going on with the killer is a solid core idea of a mysterious being tormenting a group of friends, and how it goes about delivering some solid action in the later half where they get targeted at the house and later on in the cabin refuse which are somewhat chilling and creepy set-ups here. Still, this one has too many problems to really generate much else.Rated R: Violence and Language.

Coventry Apparently "Marble Hornets" the long-feature film is based on a series that can only be seen on You Tube. Personally I didn't know this series existed… No wait, let me rephrase that, personally I didn't even know there existed series that can only be seen on You Tube! Anyways, the series revolves on a fictional character referred to as Slender Man – although for legal reasons here re-baptized into 'The Operator' – who is a type of boogeyman-for-the-cyber-generation and appears in sinister internet videos rather than underneath your bed. The bad news, however, is that "Marble Hornets" is also one of those dreadful Found-Footage horror movies, which means that the hand-held camera-work is horrendous (and, no, it's not adding any atmosphere or suspense), the characters are underdeveloped and over- the-top hysterical most of the time and that the film ends suddenly and abrupt without any type of proper explanation. Sara and Milo are a not-so professional duo of news reporters, sharing a brief but uncomfortably awkward love history, are following around a team of evictors for a human-interest documentary. They enter a rather nice and well-decorated middle-class family house where the residents cleared rushed out of unforeseen and in a hurry. They stumble upon a pile of family videos and discover that the father became gradually paranoid – and righteously so – because he always spotted a sinister figure observing his family from a distance. This perpetrator can only be seen through the lens of a camera and pretty soon he's also stalking Sara, Milo and their obnoxious supervisor Charlie. If you disregard the connection with the Internet series, "Marble Hornets: The Operator" is an incredibly mundane and forgettable movie. The only remotely interesting added value in the script is the unhealthy relationship between the lead protagonists. For example, Sara and Charlie learn about the existence of The Operator when they stumble upon Milo's private videos in which he's stalking Sara. Both the appearance and the background story of The Operator aren't very interesting or scary, and he honestly doesn't do a whole lot apart from discretely standing in the background. If there ever was a movie that is suitable for Found-Footage fanatics only, it must be this one.