X - He's Always Watching (2013)

Where did it all go wrong? Blast!Slenderman has limitless potential as a film but after Slender (2016) I started to fear it was potential that would never be met.The first 15 minutes or so of The Slender Man had me gripped, this was well made and genuinely scary stuff. Truly scary and I don't say that very often.Then to my horror it all fell apart and this movie which I was beginning to think was going to turn into something special turned into another found footage film and an utter mess.The plot makes little sense, the pacing is disastrous and all the magic from the start of the film flickers down to nothing.I believe Slender Man will get a great film one day (Or has one already I haven't seen) this however is not that film.The Good:Genuinely scary in placesThe Bad:No rhyme or reason why people are recording most of the timePoor audio balancingIncoherent plotFront cover makes him look like a gothic Koro-senseiThings I Learnt From This Movie:If you're going to kidnap children, doing it during the day in the middle of the street seems like a good call

Sure, The Slender Man is only 78 minutes long, but the director somehow manages to make it feel like 78 years. In this found-footage camera POV style horror film, absolutely nothing happens. People walk around, people eat, people joke, and in one or two scenes, a tall guy with a white mask shows up and spooks some people. It is truly one of the most boring films you can find. Who are the characters? Unknown. When will they die? Unknown. Where is the title villain? Who knows! There have been a massive slough of Slenderman movies lately, all of them independent and some of them probably never happening because Slenderman is now a washed up fad, but whatever. I saw this because it was free and I ended up wanting him to come find and take me to whatever fictional BS land he takes me, where my organs are ripped out of my body while I'm still alive or whatever that one website claims. Slender man potentially could be a horrifying antagonist, but he needs to kill off all of his rabid fans first and hire good filmmakers and story writers.

So bad. Just really bad. Most of the film was jerky footage of the ground. Much of it was so dark you just couldn't see anything while the camera was bouncing around. The terrible audio composition had me constantly turning it up and down. I get that it's low budget, but did they even try? I'm SO angry that the creators would let anyone waste an hour of their life watching this and waiting for something interesting to happen.I have been required to put more effort into this review than was put into this entire movie. I did this to save you! Don't let the hour of my life I sacrificed be in vain. Save yourself!

I won't say anything about the plot because I think this type of film has more effect if you know nothing about it. I will say this tho, I was scared. I had to watch a lot of it through my fingers. It's very suspenseful and has a few scares. The story is good (i didn't expect much of one) and the acting is pretty decent. The effects of the The Slender Man were pretty surprising for such a low budget film. If you're a fan of Handycam movies then i'm sure this one won't disappoint. It looks very much like the game which also i found rather scary. You only get brief glimpses of The Slender Man but quite often it made me jump. If you're a horror fan like me then i'm sure you'd find it worth a watch.