Slender

I'm a sucker for found footage films, and I always found the Slender Man to be a good creepypasta.But for what it is, down to the core of it, there's not a whole lot about Slender Man that's really THAT scary. With the original Slender Man game (2009), yeah, it was freaky at the time because it was pretty unique compared to others in the horror genre but it also played on other fears besides Slender Man. I dunno, I just think at this point (2015-16) its been too over done.The build up to the "scary" parts was long over due, and I would have preferred watching cheesy scares for an hour of the movie with only a 20 minute build up than vice versa. At least it would have kept my attention longer. Don't get me wrong, I love a research build up some found footage films do, it can create a great vignette connecting the source material to the story. With Slender, that's kind of really easy/hard to do because the original material is so limited and honestly downright basic. Everyone who is into Creepypastas knows pretty much all there is about it.The point is, I was sorta hoping a Slender movie from 2015 would have added something new to the table, a unique perspective, some artistic licensing, SOMETHING to give the concept of Slender a new facelift. Since the original game, there are now over 30 copycat games and/or mods that tell the same story over and over again. If you're going to spend actual money producing a film on the basis of an internet meme, at the very least make it your own! Make something inspired by it, add your own thing, maybe combine different things to make one thing, I don't know. But don't just slap a meme on a film title and give the audience watered down backwash from the internet, because at that point you are solely monetizing on beating a dead horse.

You could tell this movie was trying, but it never quite came together for me. Your mileage may vary, but I found it to be a long, slow build-up to not very much payoff. Also, I kept wanting to smack the main character until my arm got tired, what with the number of times he filmed people without their permission and the number of times he lied about the camera being on.I gave this movie three stars kind of like an A for effort - making a film about the iconic Slenderman was worth a shot, and the movie deserves some props even though, in my opinion, they missed.One way I think this could have been better is if it had been working in evidence that Slenderman was stalking the characters from very early on. At first, I thought they were going to do that during the skype call, but (spoilers)it was just a cheap jumpscare.

Wow, I have a lot of conflicted feelings about this flick. Overall it was pretty freaking creepy. Honestly though it took awhile to really get going for my tastes but it wasn't unbearable. A major problem I had with this movie though was the main camera guy Dan. He was such a terrible human being, like I'm talking borderline sociopath. Everything had to be what he wanted friends and sister be damned. Most of the other characters were alright but they were pretty crappy people as well. I would recommend this movie to people who like found footage movies that get under one's skin, but I can't give this more than three stars because I was to distracted by how terrible the characters were as people, like I don't know which was worse the characters or the slender-man. Speaking of which there was some decent background on the mythology of the slender-man thing but I would have liked a bit more.

FINALLY! A good microbudget indie found footage horror movie!!I really enjoyed this one. Believable acting (really good, actually - even from the supporting actors like the police officer and Millie, the mom), a compelling storyline, a good slow build. In looking at the bios online, it looks like this is Petrie's first film, so hoping for some more from this guy and the team.The downsides to this one were perhaps not enough scares, especially in the first 3/4 of the film. And, unfortunately, the ending - the very end - was a bit disappointing.But, overall, I really enjoyed this one. In fact, I'm watching it a second time right now. Well done, guys!

I really wanted to like this movie. It had some interesting moments during the story build up, but as other reviews stated it doesn't add anything new to the slender story.This movie sort of strings you along with lukewarm creepypasta stuff and fails to pay off at the end.Best/Worst part of the movie for me was in the beginning. When they are at the cafe brainstorming about making a movie/documentary.One of them asked: 'What does a human being do when they just stop caring?'The other replies: 'They make movies.'This is followed by a gale of laughter from the actors and at first I was laughing with them. Until I realized that the joke was on me.My reaction was this: 'Hah! Hahahaha..... oh....damn.'It was a little hard to keep watching the movie after that, but I soldiered through it. So here I am wondering if this is what blue balls feels like for men.

so so

Woo wee

It had potential....