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He doesn’t impale people with his tendrils, he doesn’t use his limbs to break trees or even crawl like he was intended to in the original concept art. There are some cool visual effects and illusions, but you don’t see him do anything. Slender Man himself, while very excellent in the film both visually and in how he was portrayed, he is never utilized to do anything cool. They served no purpose and they learned nothing.

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They cut the deaths so far to the point where some characters just simply vanish from the movie and are not mentioned by anybody again, rendering their plot relevance as nothing. Any gruesome depiction of violence had been cut from the film. The editing left a lot of fates of the main cast up to interpretation, and not in a good way. But this movie doesn’t explain anything, even when it’s crucial to the story. Not every villain or horror villain needs an explanation, and usually when it IS explained it turns out bad or at best mediocre. It didn’t want to expand on the mythos, explain who or what Slender Man is, why he exists, why he is linked to a rip off video of The Ring Tape, why he has the abilities he possesses, what his motivations are, nothing. Then I realized that is essentially the exact formula to modern day ghost movies. What I initially thought I enjoyed about Slender Man was the fact that it wasn’t just a generic ghost movie, but rather a movie with something that could manipulate technology, drive people crazy and make them disappear. It didn’t want to be its own thing, and it shows. This doesn’t reflect my personal issues with the movie, but it reflects on a much bigger problem it had.

Theaters across Wisconsin had pulled it from theaters the week it had come out despite the film having nothing to do with the tragedy. However, this had bled into the movie as well. It’s a permanent stain that can’t be washed away, and that’s just something we as fans of the character have to put up with.

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Without a doubt, what made this movie fail at the box office more than anything else was the series of real life stabbing associated to the character. But looking back on myself now, I acknowledge that I may have been wrong. I was going through and still am going through a really tough time in my life and a movie based on one of my favorite characters was something that partially filled that void. And as a fan of the character, his stories and the games surrounding him, it was hard to. I acknowledged some of its flaws back then, but not to the extent that I do now. In that review, I gave Slender Man an 8.4.

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It’s very out dated and no longer reflects my thoughts, so I’m linking that as more of an archive than anything else. If you wish to read the original post in which I talked about (and grossly praised this film), you can check it out here. It’s been almost a year since the release of Slender Man in theaters last year, and a lot has changed my mind since it had initially come out.

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