Slender Man
Screen Gems | Release Date: August 10, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
6
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 10, 2018
Sporadically, one can see the movie that Slender Man could have been, but it disappears like the title character’s victims. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 9, 2018
Give White credit for the picture’s fairly eerie tone and look — darkened streets, foggy forests of spindly pines, shadows and more shadows. It’s just not worth more than the occasional hair-raising instant. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshAug 9, 2018
Birke's script is plainly straightforward, a simple supernatural chase story. It doesn't plumb the depths of what might make Slender Man scary, so Slender Man isn't scary at all. Read full review
33
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerAug 10, 2018
The first major problem with Slender Man is that it’s not anywhere near as scary as many of the fan-made mockups that can be found online right now, but the second and arguably bigger one is that it’s barely a Slender Man story. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 9, 2018
Slender Man is the kind of movie in which images come before logic, because there really isn’t much logic. There’s just a movie out to goose you. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 9, 2018
A tasteless and incredibly 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 one fundamental difference that sets the two movies apart: “The Ring” is good, and Slender Man is terrible. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 10, 2018
The film mostly tests viewers' ability to stay awake — and the one or two actual creepy moments it has up its sleeve come far, far too late to be potent. Read full review
20
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 9, 2018
The most perfunctory horror picture I’ve seen in some time. Read full review
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