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I was in a theater, all jacked up on Sour Patch Kids and soda, and my eyes kept drifting shut.ДЄnd like, IвЂ™m not saying I scare easily, but even if IвЂ™m not cringing in my seat, I still appreciate some well-executed jump scares, you know? This doesnвЂ™t have those. Basically: Is it scary? Answer: I almost fell asleep during the climax of this movie. What makes or breaks a horror flick is the style with which it carries out that plot. вЂњMysterious supernatural force takes out a group of people one by oneвЂќ could apply to almost anything. The fact is for horror movies, being formulaic or simplistic isnвЂ™t actually detrimental at all. Or from the fact that Slender ManвЂ™s whole schtick is stalking and driving people crazy. But you could basically figure out everything I just said from watching the trailer. The end.ДЄnd if you want to yell at me for not including a spoiler alert on that, then FINE. And Slender Man, you know, slowly stalks and drives the girls insane or whatever. Her friends dig deeper into the stories surrounding Slender Man in an attempt to figure out what happened to their friend and get her back. Apparently, it works, because Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles), Wren (Joey King), Chloe (Jaz Sinclair), and Katie (Annalise Basso) start having nightmares about him - and then Katie disappears. The story focuses on four teenage girls who read about Slender Man on online forums and try to summon him by watching the requisite creepy video. ItвЂ™s just that the commentary, like the film itself, is pointless and slack. Slender Man was already a work of fiction to begin with, and the film stays rooted in that place rather than in the stabbing incident - though it does attempt to provide some casual commentary as to what might cause teenagers to invest themselves wholeheartedly in an urban legend about a faceless man who stalks children. Luckily, the film steers mostly clear of the real events that transpired. So in that sense, itвЂ™s hard to criticize Slender Man for doing what so many films before it already did, even if you could argue that its too soon.

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The serial killer Ed Gein inspired PsychoвЂ™s Norman Bates, Texas Chainsaw MassacreвЂ™s Leatherface, and Silence of the LambвЂ™s Hannibal Lecter, for example. On the other hand, the horror genre has always drawn inspiration from real life. I wondered if the film would center on a group of girls (it does, but theyвЂ™re in high school) or imitate any of the circumstances of the case (eh - it doesnвЂ™t really). And to a certain extent, I shared those concerns.

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Emphasis on вЂњknock-off.вЂќДЄs you may expect, the movie met with criticism from its inception over concerns that it was a distasteful attempt to cash in on a real-life tragedy. Instead, I can dive right into the movie Slender Man, which takes the Slender Man mythos and basically tries to combine its virality and urban legend aspects into a knock-off of The Ring and Candyman. All you need to know is that heвЂ™s very much not real, though some people seem to not understand that, and the girls who took their belief in him the farthest were later diagnosed with actual mental disorders (one girl is schizophrenic, while the other has a delusional disorder called schizotypy). Thanks to Jodi, who already covered the origins of Slender Man earlier this week, I donвЂ™t have to rehash the history of the fictitious online creation or how it inspired two 12-year-old girls to stab their friend in an effort to appease and impress the figure.