Slender Man

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Slender Man

PG-13

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

Mar 4, 2020

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.

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Dec 7, 2018

1.5/5

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.

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

Aug 27, 2018

2/5

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

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David Day

Horror Movie Talk

Jul 25, 2025

2/10

Not redeemable, not enjoyable, not so bad that it’s good, just bad in the same way as when you realize you have explosive diarrhea – there is no good time for it, and you just wish it never happened.

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Jordy Sirkin

Jordy Reviews It

Jan 2, 2021

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

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Jorge Loser

Espinof

Aug 11, 2020

3.5/5

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

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@Moviedestroyer 3 days ago

I'm so frustrated that I was so scared to watch this when I was younger, I believe that they ruined the scary vibe by turning him in to a stupid spider thingy near the end unbelievable on how they fumbled on such any awesome monster the brought fear to me and many when we were younger

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Tania L

@RT96546821 Aug 24, 2026

It's not the best but...it gave me chills I had some slenderman drawings soo it gave me chills the movie kinda sucks do but be charecters aren't that bad

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Daniel L

@RT19281712 Jun 29, 2026

This movie is horrible, bad script, bad characters bad everything. Not for me.

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Rhiannon L

@RT44996834 Jun 26, 2026

I dont understand all the bad reviews on this movie; I kept waiting for it to get stupid or dull or at least have a bad ending but none of the above came true. This is a hidden gem. Super spooky psychological thriller with an ominous small town vibe. Plus i loved all the characters. It was one of the best horrors Ive seen in awhile. Ignore the hate on this one and give it a watch. Think: IT meets The Ring; but better than The Ring.

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SammySam18 T

@RT61428428 Jun 1, 2026

This movie is poorly made, it's like the director decided to copy and paste between "the ring" and "truth or dare" and slapped slenderman on there and call it a day. It's like they never took the opportunity to read the creepypasta or play the video games of this character. I would rank it higher if they just remade it, do a deeper research on the lore and the character itself than just copy and paste the same ideas from other movie. If you like it fine, but this is how I felt over 9 years now and as a creepypasta and horror story fan .

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Jacob W

@Jdub17 May 27, 2026

This movie made many memories for me!! Watched it when it first came out and it was the funniest movie I’ve ever seen. Me and my brothers were crying laughing in the theater that we almost had to walk out for a few moments because we were afraid we were disturbing people next to us😁👍🏽

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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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