The girls are so poorly defined that they're practically interchangeable; when the bogeyman starts making them disappear one by one, you may not realize at first that any of them are gone.

| Mar 4, 2020

Slender Man essentially feels like a movie created from a how-to guide to horror. Step one: apply drab color palette with hazy blues, greens, and neutrals. Step 2: make sure all set pieces look like generic, creepy locations.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 7, 2018

If you thought the bogeyman was slender, wait till you see the film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Promising source material and a talented cast are squandered in a stale, rigidly formulaic J-horror wannabe.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's not necessary to swallow whole the idea that the internet is inherently dangerous to see the production of a movie, after that controversy, as a somewhat cynical gesture. Especially when it's a bad movie trying to look sincere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018

The inherent creepiness of the titular character never resonates and as such there are precious few scares.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2018

A disappointingly disposable movie.

| Aug 14, 2018

These competent actresses deserve actual characters to play, but Birke's screenplay is as devoid of personality as the faceless cipher stalking its heroes.

| Aug 10, 2018

The film only has creepy imagery. There's no real characters, no real story, no main protagonist, and then it just gets boring.

| Original Score: D | Aug 10, 2018

It doesn't add up to much more than a shoulder shrug. Perhaps that's one way to kill off Slender Man: make his story so dull that no one cares.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 10, 2018

Sporadically, one can see the movie that Slender Man could have been, but it disappears like the title character's victims.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 10, 2018

Slender Man feels as used up as any years-old meme, like trying to explain what's funny about dat boi a decade late.

| Aug 9, 2018

It turns its boogeyman into a generic figure of menace who doesn't feel ready for his moment in the horror movie spotlight.

| Aug 9, 2018

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.

| Original Score: D | Aug 9, 2018

"Slender Man" bravely goes against the well-established notion that scary movies should be scary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2018

The most perfunctory horror picture I've seen in some time.

| Aug 9, 2018

The movie fails to understand that it's the characters' fixation on Slender Man -- and not the phantom himself -- that should be driving the terror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2018

Apart from its occasionally spooky images, "Slender Man" is a fundamentally derivative and empty-headed horror film.

| Aug 9, 2018