Sony striking while the Slender Man iron is Ice Cold. This movie is 3-5 years late for a cash in on a dumb internet thing.
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Slender Man movie is out right now and here are its reviews
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Babadook is scary not just in theory, but also execution. It's a horrific movie without having all the jumpcuts or jumpscares or all the cliches. It has this presence that sends chills down the spine. Its a great horror/scary movie without using gore or disfigured ghouls to scare you.
After Emoji and Slenderman, I'm wondering what will be the next Sony "Hello Fellow Kids" misfire
I was bored to tears. One of the most disappointing films I've ever seen. And yes, I liked the VVitch, misleading trailers and all.
Nah. Sony knew it was hot garbage and threw little marketing behind it.
Producers got mad and shipped it to every other studio and Netflix and Amazon and got no bites, so Sony was stuck holding the bag and quietly buried it in August.
Wonder how good it feels to get to write that?
Anyway, exactly what I expected. Sounds like the perfect Slenderman movie
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I don't actually get why they failed so miserably. It really isn't that hard to write a convincingly creepy movie about people being stalked by a supernatural and seemingly unkillable monster.
...but it sounds like the Gentlemen from Buffy are spookier than this movie.
I think that contrary to your expectations, it's incredibly hard.
It's a concept that has been done before, and it lacks creativity. It's the most basic story imaginable. I have a hard time imagining how it could be realized without being stale and boring.
Legit surprised the average score is above 3.5/10 at the moment.
I feel bad for Joey King, she's a good actress and is above this crap.
I feel bad for Joey King, she's a good actress and is above this crap.
Some of those quotes are choice.
Oh, is that how that ended up going?
I saw the whole bit where they thought the movie somehow deserved better, but didn't see them slinking back, huh.
Oh, is that how that ended up going?
I saw the whole bit where they thought the movie somehow deserved better, but didn't see them slinking back, huh.
Because they used that stabbing incident as their primary source of information, not so much the creepypasta or Marble Hornets, and like the girls who went to jail for that, they have a very poor grasp on what Slender Man's about.
I saw this last night out of morbid curiosity (plus I had to get out of the house for an HOA meeting and this was literally the only thing playing at the right time):
At one point, the main teen dreams that she's pregnant with Slenderman.
One of the character, talking with her three friends walking down the school hallway, says: "Twitter Poll: If you could spend the rest of your life the same age, which age would you be?" TWITTER POLL.
There are legit two good scares but its basically a mediocre Are You Afraid of the Dark episode.
One of the character, talking with her three friends walking down the school hallway, says: "Twitter Poll: If you could spend the rest of your life the same age, which age would you be?" TWITTER POLL.
There are legit two good scares but its basically a mediocre Are You Afraid of the Dark episode.
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society: It's a generic as hell story.
Babadook has some good elements and a couple creepy scenes, but it is very overrated and the mental illness subtext is so annoyingly overbearing and eye rolling at times it really hurts the film. The ending is so so bad because of that.
I was racking my brain to remember the title, lol it was always something simple
This ever stick the landing? I think I stopped watching near the end of the series. I will say this is probably the worst series to watch late at night when you live alone in a new apartment.
Yeah, once it became a story of three different storylines, and less about the one movie director guy trying to figure out what Slenderman was, I fell off the bandwagon as well.
Basically what I got from it. I started off finding it quite scary because of the sounds the Babadook makes, but apart from that the whole family drama and "the monster was our feelings all along" bullshit just made my eyes roll.
It didn't help that none of the characters were likable or relatable.
Savage lol
Thank you for this ! Slow day at work so this is welcome :)
On subject, this movie seems like it sucks really bad, just makes me want to rewatch The Badabook
I've had an idea how you could make a Slenderman movie. I'd set it in the past (I know 80s is a nice time, but maybe the 90s), a time BEFORE the heavy reliance on smartphones and internet (no searching up "Slenderman" online). as well as being around the time when had VHS/mini-tape camcorders. Take some cues from Stranger Things by making the majority of the cast YOUNG (Slenderman comes after children), and make the main character a teen. My idea for this is to have the main teen girl(15-17) be the visiting cousin of a younger boy (10-12), and the small town the boy's family lives in is seeing a rash of child disappearances that the adults stop noticing (when Slenderman abducts all a family's children, the memory of those children vanish and the parents move from the town). The boy notices this even more as his group of close friends start to vanish, one by one. His older cousin thinks his paranoid, until she sees Slenderman start his attack on him, then the two band together to try to survive his game of cat and mouse. Lots of disturbing creepy things happen (I'm thinking waking up in the night and they hear the screaming of one of their abducted friends in the walls, or when Slenderman starts to chase them, there isn't just simple static seen on the tv/ or flickering of the lights, but the entire space becomes distorted, walls become elongated, floors start to slope). My end would be that both their parents (the boy's mother and father, and the teen girl's mother) forget their children even exist and Slenderman comes for his last big hurrah, but the two youths manage to escape, steal one of their parents' car and drive the hell out of town, not knowing what the future holds, but knowing that the boy's hometown is without hope. It would be a movie that focuses on a creeping sense of dread, not jump-scares or fast-cuts and loud noises, and wouldn't focus on vapid teens doing vapid teen shit but on the relationship between two cousins that were close when they were much younger (that the older cousin was like an "older sister" to the younger boy, who is an only child), but over time have drifted apart, but are brought back together through the circumstance of the horror they are experiencing.
If there was to be a sequel, it would be set in modern times where either a group of teens or a family on vacation stops at the town on their way to their destination, discovering it's either a ghost town or there are a few people living there, but there's no children at all (I'm leaning towards the latter).
I'm with you. The Babadook was hyped to hell and back but when I watched it...I was mostly just annoyed and bored. I will say though that the scene where the mother is watching the news and the camera zooms in on her smiling face in a window...that scene caught me off guard and was really unnerving. Nothing else about the movie is memorable for me.
I really enjoyed Babadook as a tale of a deteriorating family and there are some aspects of that movie that touched me on a personal level.
But tense and scary aren't words I would use to describe it. Horrifying is a word I would use, but that more due to the movie tapping into some of the bullshit I had to deal with in the past. It's very good at depicting
how a child reacts to a parent going through a mental breakdown.
...why?
Just watch this youtube playlist with her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmhfn3mgWUI&list=PLCACDEE1E71FC8E5E