jacobscottmchaney
Well I first heard of slender man the urban legend about 8 years ago and I was hooked with the diligence of research and mythos. I think this movie could and should have come out years ago. The movie was mediocre and could have been creepier. Channel Zero also from creepy pasta is an anthology series and has done a great job at creating fear. This movie dropped the ball I expected a lot sacrier.
jshapppo
After watching this movie I was enlightened into the octopuses garden. I was sitting in the theater and I realized that if you say slenderman backwards it spells sucon, sucon these toes boi. My favorite part of the movie is during the oversong the font was absolutely phenomenal. During the annual linguini festival I believe the slender man gains some weight because he enjoys the pound cake served during afternoon tea. But the reason this movie is a classic is purely due to the movie itself brilliantly done Sylvain White!
hoovytube
Before I unleash my true hate for this movie, I will mention what works in it, giving credit where credit is due. The movie was in focus, for around 30 seconds the dialogue wasn't bad and there were around 2 seconds of scary imagery.
Now with a few points, I will mention the things that make it one of the worst horror movies of the 21st century.
1. The story makes no sense. Scenes just sort of happen and end. This is probably due to the fact that the studio had to cut out a major piece of this movie. This movie isn't The Magnificent Ambersons, a bit of gore wouldn't save it, though I hope the original cut was more cohesive.
2. No rules. 'It Follows' is a great horror movie, which establishes the rules of our antagonist throughout the movie. Here slender-man does all sorts of things, so you can only sit and observe sloppily put together scenes of things happening.
3. Jump scares. While they didn't startle me, when I looked around, people were constantly jumping due to the loud sound effects. It would be alright if these jump scares were earned, but putting a loud noise because a character walks by is the laziest garbage.
4. Boring. It's not bad enough to be 'so bad it's funny'. I only laughed 2 times and chuckled 4. Not enough laughs to spend money, gas and time for the sake of laughing at the weird decisions of the filmmaker.
I genuinely hope that movies that don't rely on cliches and cheap tricks like Hereditary will pop up every once in a while even if audiences won't give them millions of dollars.