Anyone remotely familiar with the video games knows that it’s not hard to make Slender Man scary, and while these same games don’t have any kind of plot that can be adapted, their simplistic form is proof of the cardinal rule of horror: less is more. Many B-grade movies are shameless rip offs of better and more well known source materials, but none of them deal with a well-established character the same way Slender Man does here. The premise is painfully similar to the point where even the video that they watch is just like the tape from The Ring. Bonus points if you got a little A Nightmare On Elm Street from that too. Now if you could glean that this premise is basically Stranger Things and The Ring, then you’re correct. The group watches the video, and some time later one of them disappears during a field trip, prompting the remaining three to find their friend and figure out how to stop Slender Man from taking them as well, while resisting the influence of its hallucinations. Anyone order a pizza with extra sausage?Įven the premise is eye rollingly familiar a group of four friends living in an average Midwestern town (figure it out yet?) hear a story about a mythical figure called Slender Man who kidnaps and drives children mad if they watch mysteries video online (how about now?). I never set my expectations high with Slender Man (2018), and by doing so I was able to enjoy most of the film the same way I would the b- movie schlock of decades past, but this by no means implies that the film is actually good. I was nostalgic for the tension I felt in high school whenever people would spread the Slender Man lore and dare each other to play one of the genuinely fear-inducing games. It looked like a scary enough movie, but I was more excited to see a figure that I had grown up with finally be turned into a movie. Despite the infamy that surrounds the character of Slender Man, I was very excited to see the trailer for its big screen adaptation.
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