360studios The movie doesn't make sense at times, likely due to editing to get to PG-13 from R. The performances suffer due to poor direction and editing. It's boring and bland. At many points it seems that you're watching a student film due to laughable effects, editing, and plot points.

Jared_Andrews Sometimes a single line of dialogue can stand out in such a way that you instantly realize that a movie is awful. For 'Slender Man,' that line came from Joey King. "He's like a computer virus except he gets inside your body and messes with you!" Oh, so you mean like a virus? Why didn't you just say, "he's a like a virus." Several times throughout the film, that sort of hack writing shows its ugly face (as opposed to Slender Man, who technically can't be ugly because he has no face). There are zero clever lines delivered. Most of dialogue sounds like it was written by a Twitter bot designed to simulate mundane teen talk. The putrid writing isn't limited to the dialogue-the characters themselves contain about as much detail as one could write on a Post-it note. I think of the four main characters as, girl A, girl B, girl with a sister, and token non-white girl. They're essentially indistinguishable from one another. The only difference is that some are slightly more talented performers, and, of course, the most talented girls are the first to disappear from the story. What's really striking about the girls is that, even though they're allegedly best friends, they don't even seem to like each other. At one point, I girl makes a catty, resentful remark about her "friend's" trophies. Later, she says, "I thought you didn't care about track. I thought you cared about Chloe." (It's a miracle that I remember her name). That moment is striking for a couple reasons. One, it doesn't seem like something that should be said between good friends, and, two, I hardly realized the girl ran track. Probably because it's never shown in the movie. I imagine the track angle played a larger role in an earlier draft then removed, but this line was left in. Editing isn't the movie's strength. When the girls aren't making odd comments to each other or expressing all the liveliness of a folding chair, they're attempting to appear scared. To show that they're scared, they basically do an impression of a panting dog that's trying to speak. It's a lot of breathing and stammering. Acting is also not this movie's strength. All the above flaws are enough of a turnoff, but the worst offense of this movie is that it's scary movie that's not scary. It's painfully dull and devoid of anything that may actually make it entertaining. It's as if all the interesting scenes were removed. Why, I'm not sure. Maybe they also cut out the parts that made this appear to be a coherent story. 'Slender Man' is one of the worst movies of 2018. It's not a scary movie that's so bad that it's secretly kind of fun. It's just a bad, boring movie. I recommend a hard pass.

petshopgirl-00723 Literally THE worst 'horror' experience I've had across every medium. The acting is terrible, the 'scares' are hardly scary, and the characters are so unrelatable and easy to dislike that I spent most of the movie rooting for their deaths. The script is so poorly written and the story is unbelievably cliche and dull. The ending was quite depressing, which wasn't a problem for me as I usually enjoy that sort of thing, but it was terribly done and incredibly unsatisfying. The formula for every jumpscare is the exact same so you always know when one is coming, which takes the fun out of it, not to mention a majority of them are just fakeouts to supposedly get you prepped for the 'REAL' scares, which are stupidly tame. There are no truly unexpected scares. The titular antagonist is only on screen for about a minute throughout the duration of the entire film, and his portrayal isn't even that frightening. Every scary scene has way too much buildup and not enough bang, although it does get slightly creepier within the last 10-15 minutes, but even then it isn't worth suffering through the rest of the film. I scare quite easily, but even watching it on a huge screen in a dark theater I wasn't scared in the slightest. Honestly, I could not stop laughing at how stupid the characters and their choices were and and how unscary the movie really was. I had read plenty of bad reviews and even from trailers I could tell this would be terrible, but it far exceeded my expectations. An outstanding experience if you like to roll your eyes and laugh at bad movies, but if you're looking for something genuinely scary and interesting, this ain't it chief.

Hellmant 'SLENDER MAN': Three Stars (Out of Five)A horror flick about a group of high school girls who attempt to prove that Slender Man (a popular internet supernatural character) doesn't actually exist, and then one of them turns up missing. It was directed by Sylvain White, written by David Birke, and it stars Joey King, Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso and Javier Botet (in the title role). The film did well at the Box Office, but it got horrible reviews from critics and moviegoers. I thought it was decently made, and effective in some ways. It's obviously nothing special or original though, but watchable enough if you like horror movies.