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Slender Man movie is out right now and here are its reviews
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The characters don't seem that interesting, the whole movie looks kinda muted color-wise, the plot's fairly generic since they took an already overused one and slapped the Slender Man into it instead of doing something else, and it's probably in bad taste based on it being about a bunch of girls in the woods looking for Slender Man.
He existed as a thing beyond that game and even beyond Marble Hornets. I wouldn't call it a game adaptation unless they run around the woods finding drawings stuck to trees.
Holy shit this is amazing. If the entire movie is like that I'll watch it
If only we had a word for something like a computer virus that infects bodies.
It's a little over 80 videos which seems daunting but most range between a few seconds to a few minutes. Bit of a slow burn but fun to unravel the mysery.
I'll need new things to watch around Halloween, so maybe this would be a fun distraction for one night.
I'd say go for it there's some cool things that the guys did with basic equipment and there's one bit without spoilering that is really fantastic
It is a bit long bit bloated but well worth it!
Babadook is considered a modern staple of the old school styled creepy monster/boogiemen styled horror movies.
Aw yeah, the Wish Upon of 2018. Can't wait to hate-watch this.
I just.... Saw this shit.
Yes, that's real.
Holy shit this movie is just bad.
How the fuck did everyone in that production let that line go through. It's like saying "it's like turkey bacon, but made from pork!", just pure idiocy.
It really is interesting. It's the best Slenderman fiction put on video. Starts off odd and just gets completely creepy from there. Great stuff.
If only there's a word about a biological computer virus
Sadly we may never know
Reminder:
There's already a Marble Hornets-related Slenderman movie and it is also terrible and also in no way worth watching. And free on Amazon Prime! But at least it has Doug Jones. https://www.amazon.com/Always-Watch...qid=1533926641&sr=8-1&keywords=marble+hornets
And while not really Slendermanny in any way, Smiley is a terrible-yet-hilarious watch that's loosely about internet meme culture and I guess kinda borrows Slenderman-ish imagery. You will cringe repeatedly watching this and feel great shame for everyone involved. Seriously--you'll feel your spine wiggling around in your back, futilely trying to rip your brain from its skull in an attempt to escape the disaster your eyes and ears are feeding it.
Me? I'm good with the first season/series of Marble Hornets and some of the second. I think it gets dumb. There's not really much mystery or suspense when there's a bunch of intrigue built up yet there are only like 5 characters in the whole thing to actually be the perpetrators.
There's already a Marble Hornets-related Slenderman movie and it is also terrible and also in no way worth watching. And free on Amazon Prime! But at least it has Doug Jones. https://www.amazon.com/Always-Watch...qid=1533926641&sr=8-1&keywords=marble+hornets
And while not really Slendermanny in any way, Smiley is a terrible-yet-hilarious watch that's loosely about internet meme culture and I guess kinda borrows Slenderman-ish imagery. You will cringe repeatedly watching this and feel great shame for everyone involved. Seriously--you'll feel your spine wiggling around in your back, futilely trying to rip your brain from its skull in an attempt to escape the disaster your eyes and ears are feeding it.
Me? I'm good with the first season/series of Marble Hornets and some of the second. I think it gets dumb. There's not really much mystery or suspense when there's a bunch of intrigue built up yet there are only like 5 characters in the whole thing to actually be the perpetrators.
Honestly, I'm not sure how you'd really get Slenderman to work in a movie to begin with? I didn't watch Marble Hornets myself (I am a wimp who can only deal with playing some horror games and otherwise just reads way more horror movie summaries than they should), but I had friends who were very into it. My outside observation is that part of why that worked was the tension over not knowing what the next part would be, and there also being "real" time over which the story can develop, right?
And, well, beyond that, isn't the whole point of Slenderman that he's just sorta... there, in the background, when you don't expect it? That's harder to do in a way that shocks the audience when you're making them sit down to watch a long movie vs being able to obsess over a single several minute long YouTube video for a while...
My thought was always that it'd be interesting to see it executed as a somewhat short game that has him following you, and then at the end of it suddenly replays your entire recorded playthrough from his perspective (or else just from an angle that shows how he was there the entire time), or something along those lines.
And, well, beyond that, isn't the whole point of Slenderman that he's just sorta... there, in the background, when you don't expect it? That's harder to do in a way that shocks the audience when you're making them sit down to watch a long movie vs being able to obsess over a single several minute long YouTube video for a while...
My thought was always that it'd be interesting to see it executed as a somewhat short game that has him following you, and then at the end of it suddenly replays your entire recorded playthrough from his perspective (or else just from an angle that shows how he was there the entire time), or something along those lines.
Saw this earlier today, went because my mom did some extra work for this and we wanted to see if her scene made it in, and it did! If anyone saw it, she's one of the nurses at the nurses' station during the hospital scene. Was a trip seeing my mom on the big screen haha. That being said...
Trust me, it's not worth it. It's not in any way so bad it's good. A couple scenes made me roll my eyes and chuckle at how dumb they were, but the vast majority was just sitting and waiting for it to be over.
If that's the case, even though I haven't watched the movie, maybe it would be fitting to just recommend the trailer of this movie. You get the cringe, eye-rolling dumb shit, and it's super duper short!
LOL, love how they start cracking up through the fast twitching bit!
The thing about Slender Man is that it's not a monster story or a slasher story; it's a Lovecraft story (which has its own problems with high budget visual media). The rare and occasional jump scares work as well as they do because they are serviced by the ambient stress and the all-consuming dread that your unreliable narrator is slowly but inevitably descending into Madness. The horror often doesn't come by the sudden jump scare, but simply the fact that he was watching you through the window for forty minutes and you never even noticed.
It's hard to write a three-act movie because ultimately you can't win against him. You can't stop him. You can't even understand what he is. All you know is that the apartment you were at three weeks ago just burned down, people you know are vanishing, and there's some really creepy ass body bags in the woods. Slenderman is an excellent mood piece, hence why blogs and youtube channels can get away with it because really the plot never really goes anywhere because it can't. Which, again, is why a three act movie just can't pull that off (or at least, makes it almost impossibly difficult). You can't win, or 'unmask', or even really survive Slendy. Not forever. If you do, it's because he arbitrarily 'moved on' to something else.
It's hard to write a three-act movie because ultimately you can't win against him. You can't stop him. You can't even understand what he is. All you know is that the apartment you were at three weeks ago just burned down, people you know are vanishing, and there's some really creepy ass body bags in the woods. Slenderman is an excellent mood piece, hence why blogs and youtube channels can get away with it because really the plot never really goes anywhere because it can't. Which, again, is why a three act movie just can't pull that off (or at least, makes it almost impossibly difficult). You can't win, or 'unmask', or even really survive Slendy. Not forever. If you do, it's because he arbitrarily 'moved on' to something else.
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Oh yea, easily the best found footage horror ive seen. There should be a youtube playlist which puts the 2 channels together in order
Based on the review quotes and some of the scenes/lines being described, I do wonder if this could be a horror movie that's so poorly made it shifts into the line of being ironically entertaining. If it does hit that sweet spot of being "so bad it's good" I might actually check it out :v
"a turd in the wind"
Marble Hornets is genuinely creepy, but you have to wade through a lot of episodes. If they made a movie version of that, no soundtrack just raw found footage, thats where Slender's creepiness lies.
Babadook is a very pretty fairy tale/ allegory almost. Im not gonna be that guy and say 'not horror', but its much more a personal portrayal of grief.
This proves you dont just slide any "monster"with very old internet cred and say "we got the new Freddie!". Slenderman was unnerving because it was lofi and subtle.
Babadook is a very pretty fairy tale/ allegory almost. Im not gonna be that guy and say 'not horror', but its much more a personal portrayal of grief.
This proves you dont just slide any "monster"with very old internet cred and say "we got the new Freddie!". Slenderman was unnerving because it was lofi and subtle.
I might go see it just to shit on it plus I haven't seen a movie in a hot minute. What I find so frustrating is I can think of atleast three other creepypasta/nosleep stories that would make muuuuuuuuch better movies like My Dad Finally Told me What Happened That Day (it starts at 34 minutes and I'm linking to the podcast cause they have wonderful production quality). Stolen Tounges by Felix Blackwell (based off of a nosleep story), and plenty more. If movie people really wanted to steal their ideas from creepypastas, they could go for stuff that isn't old and busted.
^ this. If you insist on trying it for yourself, wait til digital. It is truly not worth paying to see this in theaters, I love bad horror shit that's at least earnest, this is just boring
Apparently there was a different and more violent director's cut that the studio hacked to shit.
I haven't seen it, but have heard terrible things about the theatrical version, which align with my thoughts after seeing the TV spots.
I haven't seen it, but have heard terrible things about the theatrical version, which align with my thoughts after seeing the TV spots.
As someone who was really into the Slenderverse stuff back when I was in high school and Its sad that it this bad but I can't say I'm all that surprised.
For those interested. Here is a video of the creators of some of the big Slender series' on YouTube did a review of the film.
For those interested. Here is a video of the creators of some of the big Slender series' on YouTube did a review of the film.
I enjoyed it so much, I bought the first season on Blu-Ray
Yes, they put free YouTube videos on Blu-Ray and I purchased them, don't judge me
Slenderman started as a creepy pictures photoshop thread on the Something Awful forums in 2009. Several stories spawned from it, the most famous of which being the Marble Hornets video logs on youtube.
Redlettermedia also thinks they may have inspired the idea of Slenderman from a low-budget movie they made in 2006. It's at least a neat coincidence.
I'd recommend some of Night Mind's explanation videos as well. He's been a good YouTuber to discover creepy web series from. His AlanTutorial and This House Has People In It explanations are aces.
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Except the creator Eric Knudsen copyrighted the character in 2010 and Sony bought the theatrical rights.
So you know.
They're actually in a legal battle right now because another low budget horror flick called Flay with totally-not-Slender-Man is coming out and they C&D'd the production house only to be sued right back saying that they're not infringing, and that Sony's rights are stupid anyways.
We'll see how that shakes out.
Creepy pasta folks probably didn't READ?
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Um...ever hear of Marble Hornets? It took off as a YouTube documentary parody. But was working on an indy film and got weird turned it over to someone who was gonna maybe work on it but who starts noticing odd things in the footage and slender man starts showing up. Then it becomes a video diary of trying to figure out what happened to everyone in the film, his friend, the director, and how slender man ties in.
THAT is how Slenderman got bigger than just a small blurb creepy pasta about an image of Slenderman appearing in photos. Without marble hornets it wouldn't have grown at all.
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Um...ever hear of Marble Hornets? It took off as a YouTube documentary parody. But was working on an indy film and got weird turned it over to someone who was gonna maybe work on it but who starts noticing odd things in the footage and slender man starts showing up. Then it becomes a video diary of trying to figure out what happened to everyone in the film, his friend, the director, and how slender man ties in.
THAT is how Slenderman got bigger than just a small blurb creepy pasta about an image of Slenderman appearing in photos. Without marble hornets it wouldn't have grown at all.