Like many horror movies, characters have trouble elaborating what they see and feel with each other, and it comes at an unnerving level here. The opening conversation between two schoolmates just has you thinking: "This feels like they're reading a script." That's never a good thing. Characters also never really had any kind of realistic dialogue. In fact, when the girls watch the video it actually reminded me of The Ring to begin with, and that was a good thing too bad they did not continue much down that path. Idea #2 might glorify and inspire that notion a little more than we need though, and since idea #1 would tie more closely to the film's actual events I'd say that #1 would be my personal go-to.
There would be larger opportunities to provide a certain cloud of mystery and intrigue to explore something further, rather than simply to have too tangible of a grasp on the subject matter.
#Original slender man series#
I personally would have liked to see this have gone in one of three different directions: (1) have a tone more like The Ring where the demonic evil is not known as a figure but simply as a watched video with a curse (they even mention "virus" that would be a lot like the Ringu series and get into the anatomy of it), with no alias or concrete image in association to it (2) let it play out more like a psychological horror, even if it means recapturing elements inspired by the stabbing incident four years ago (3) found footage fashion, but Marble Hornets already did that, so I'll annex that recommendation immediately. This is a story where SM is already embedded in the national consciousness and skeptical friends decide to attempt to summon him, only to bear the burden of his haunting, kidnapping and/or killing. I won't pretend like I could have written or made a better film, but I don't know if the right plot was chosen here. Apparently Sylvain White (director) and David Birke (screenwriter) didn't get the memo. The tormenting figment of our minds is spooky enough to carry throughout 90 minutes of film with flashes here and there. We laud what the Creepypasta community has done to up the ante with the character originally created by Victor Surge (properly credited at the end of the film as an early billing), and there have been positively freaky spins on the subject matter such as the YouTube project Marble Hornets, yet there have also been negative effects attributed to the character in the attempted murder in Wisconsin by prepubescent female friends. Much like the Blair Witch, Slender Man has always been scarier as an idea within the lore built around it than as a literal and physical presence of it.
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