Slender Man

SLENDER MAN (15)

D: Sylvain White

Sony/Screen Gems/Mythology/Madhouse (Bradley J. Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sharak, Robyn Meisinger & Sarah Snow)

US 2018

93 mins

Horror

W: David Burke [based on the character created by Victor Surge]

DP: Luca Del Puppo

Ed: Jake York

Mus: Ramin Djawadi & Brandon Campbell 

Julia Goldani Telles (Hallie Knudsen), Joey King (Wren), Jaz Sinclair (Chloe), Annalise Basso (Katie), Taylor Richardson (Lizzie Knudsen)

This poor excuse for a horror movie takes its inspiration from a character created for an internet meme which became more prevalently known due to school campus chit-chat. With that in mind, it's understandable that this film is aimed solely at a teenage audience, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a terrible movie. Slender Man = slender plot.

During a sleepover, four teenage girls summon the Slender Man, a supernatural being who kidnaps children and is only visible to those who believe in his existence, but as strange things occur the girls investigate further and further allowing them to believe in the mythical menace even more.

The film has many problems, mostly being that the characters are boring, the villain isn't threatening, the mood isn't foreboding and the whole thing generally lacks tension. Also, it isn't scary.

One way it does succeed is by theorising that Slender Man depends on people investigating his existence on the internet... I had to google what the fuck I just watched immediately after leaving the cinema.

2/10