Variety
Apart from its occasionally spooky images, "Slender Man" is a fundamentally derivative and empty-headed horror film.
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Slender Man
Horror adaptation of the viral Slender Man lore, a meme created by a user of the Something Awful forum. In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she's his latest victim.
2018Rating: M, Offensive language & horror93 minsUSA
Horror
- Director:
- Sylvain White ('Stomp the Yard', 'The Losers', 'The Mark of the Angels - Miserere')
- Writer:
- David Birke
- Cast:
- Julia Goldani TellesJoey KingAnnalise BassoJaz SinclairTalitha BatemanAlex FitzalanKevin Chapman
Slender Man / Reviews
Time Out
The movie fails to understand that it's the characters' fixation on Slender Man - and not the phantom himself - that should be driving the terror.
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Sydney Morning Herald
It's not necessary to swallow whole the idea that the internet is inherently dangerous to see the production of a movie, after that controversy, as a somewhat cynical gesture. Especially when it's a bad movie trying to look sincere.
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New Zealand Herald
The more we see him, the more he moves, the less scary he is. Go back to the internet, Slender Man, you're scarier there.
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Hollywood Reporter
These competent actresses deserve actual characters to play, but Birke's screenplay is as devoid of personality as the faceless cipher stalking its heroes.
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Empire Magazine
Promising source material and a talented cast are squandered in a stale, rigidly formulaic J-horror wannabe.
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