The news spreads in the town that there is a terrifying man called the Slender Man. A group of young who like the internet so much decides to go there to prove that no exist for these creatures. By arriving there, one of them is missed and all things turn upside down. They have to fight to spare their lives.
In terms of creating a creepy and unsettling movie for those who have been enthralled by the Slender Man character over the last few years, White delivers in that department.
Deep down beats the heart of a great horror movie, but it's lost in cheap jump scares, bad CGI, and heavy cribbing from "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "The Ring."
Slender Man takes the mythos and basically tries to combine its virality and urban legend aspects into a knock-off of The Ring and Candyman. Emphasis on 'knock-off.'
A tasteless and inedibly undercooked serving of the internet's stalest Creepypasta, "Slender Man" aspires to be for the YouTube era what "The Ring" was to the last gasps of the VHS generation.
There's no fun in this dour exercise and scares are non-existent as the film haphazardly assembles various tropes and repetitive nightmare imagery into 90 minutes of weariness.
Our heroic would-be victims take too long to like, too long to catch on, and are ultimately forgettable... This monster arrives in theaters promising too little, too late.
These competent actresses deserve actual characters to play, but Birke's screenplay is as devoid of personality as the faceless cipher stalking its heroes.
