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Slender Man

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Slender Man

PG-13

Released Aug 10, 2018

1h 33m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Small-town best friends Hallie, Chloe, Wren and Katie go online to try and conjure up the Slender Man -- a tall, thin, horrifying figure whose face has no discernible features. Two weeks later, Katie mysteriously disappears during a class trip to a historic graveyard. Determined to find her, the girls soon suspect that the legend of the Slender Man may be all too real.

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Critics Consensus

Slender Man might be thin, but he's positively robust compared to the flimsy assortment of scares generated by the would-be chiller that bears his name.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

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

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

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.

Rated: 1.5/5

Dec 7, 2018

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

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

Rated: 2/5

Aug 27, 2018

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Jordy Sirkin

Jordy Reviews It

Slender Man aims to bring the sinister character to the big screen, but it painfully disappoints.

Jan 2, 2021

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Jorge Loser

Espinof

Slenderman deserves an opportunity to be seen as a respectable horror film. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 11, 2020

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Matt Cipolla

Film Monthly

Slender Man is that special type of horrible that has no reason to exist whatsoever.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 25, 2020

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Justin T

This really is as bad as you’d expect. It is the epitome of bad PG-13 horror films. What is wrong with it? Everything except the production quality (cinematography, sound design etc) but that doesn’t matter when you don’t have any characters, story or anything original to offer. The start couldn’t be less engaging. The characters are horrible. The genre is ‘urban legend’ film like Ringu (1998) but terrible although I have seen worse films. The only technical problem is that it’s too dark to tell what’s happening even when it’s meant to be daylight. The acting and the direction are actually fine, the issue is the atrocious writing and complete lack of creativity. It’s not even bad-entertaining it’s bad-boring and so forgettable that it basically never existed.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/24/25

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Roger Z

I think that the Slenderman sighting videos were better than this movie. The storyline doesn't make sense and it's very random

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/10/25

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James B

I thought those YouTube videos of Slenderman sightings were better than this.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/03/25

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Lucas S

he was pretty slender and he was a MAN (im pretty sure) slender man? I think this is erm. lore

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/24/25

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Ro M

Love joey king performance she was amazing

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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Owen H

I actually really enjoyed this movie! The acting was good and I liked the characters. The library scene was really cool and I love Wren. The Slenderman Twitch stream was odd, didn't like that. Also, his appearance in the last scene looked odd. Further, I quite enjoyed it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/24/25

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Synopsis

Small-town best friends Hallie, Chloe, Wren and Katie go online to try and conjure up the Slender Man -- a tall, thin, horrifying figure whose face has no discernible features. Two weeks later, Katie mysteriously disappears during a class trip to a historic graveyard. Determined to find her, the girls soon suspect that the legend of the Slender Man may be all too real.

Director: Sylvain White
Producer: Bradley J. Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Robyn Meisinger, Sarah Snow
Screenwriter: David Birke
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Screen Gems
Production Co: Mythology Entertainment, Madhouse Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Sequences of Terror|Some Crude Sexual References|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 10, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $30.5M
Runtime: 1h 33m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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