Review of Slender Man (2018) by Rjmacready — 28 Aug 2018

So...I'm a bit of a film snob, and a dyed-in-the-wool horror fanatic. In recent years I've migrated more to video games, since horror movies don't scare me that much any more. That said: I would love to see a list of "better" or "more original" horror movies released in the past few years, from the slew of people calling this movie "bad".

Sure it doesn't hold a candle to "It Follows", and "A Quiet Place" is certainly a good deal more ambitious, but...c'mon. SERIOUSLY. Where are all the great recent horror films that justify giving this film a 1 or 2 out of 10? I found it all quite dignified and restrained - things are mostly kept in the realm of the psychological - and it has some of the best "teen" casting I've seen in years (i.e. I could actually tell the characters apart). If you expected a horror film of the ilk of John Carpenter's "The Thing", you're a FREAKING EEJIT.

Given the current cesspool that is modern mainstream cinema, I'm giving it a 7.5 (rounded up to an 8 for this site, just to spite you all). Gimme this over a Marvel movie any day of the week.