 What is going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overlord here this is going to be reviewed for the 2018 film Slenderman. Slenderman was directed by Sylvain White the same guy who directed Stomp the Yard so I don't know why I was expecting so much from this movie when I already know that Stomp the Yard wasn't all that great either. This film stars Joey King and Annalise Basel those two those two young ladies you'll probably be more familiar with them out of any of the other people that are alongside them in this film those two starred respectively in 2013's The Conjuring and Annalise Basel was in 2014's Ouija. She was in Ouija Origins of Evil and Oculus. She was in Oculus. That's the film that a lot of you may recognize her from Oculus and Ouija and then Joey King as I mentioned she was in last year's Wish Upon and the cult film or the hit from 2013 The Conjuring. This movie is absolutely terrible. I do not this this review that I'm doing is probably gonna be rather short as well because I do not know why I turned this movie on literally from start to finish just nothing but a bunch of bad acting inconsistent storytelling terrible visual effects piss poor CGI we barely even see the Slenderman and when he's on screen and some of the worst it's like it's just glimpses of him in the end and he's on screen for about a mere 10 seconds every time he comes in contact with one of these girls we don't know what his ultimate goal is here the movie never never makes sense of itself several things come and go in this film and that ranges from characters to plot devices to elements in the story that never get resolved there's just so much wrong with this film it's not even funny I don't know what was going on here I don't know why I was even expecting something remotely good because it was done by Sony Sony I no longer trusted Sony after 2007 Spider-Man 3 I knew from that moment on I can no longer trust Sony as far as filmmaking goes as far as their consoles are concerned I will keep buying PlayStation PlayStation consoles until the day I die but for films Sony is one of the worst film film production companies I've ever seen this movie right here is terrible like I said before is directed by the same guy who directed Stomp the Yard I don't know why I was expecting something to blow me away with this film when I already know that Stomp the Yard was not all that great either the movie was written by two different people and none of the girls in this film seem to be fleshed out there's no care there's no real character development because the main one of the girls the first girl that goes missing is Katie played by Annalise Basel when she goes missing the other girls at like complete idiots and they have no idea how to get her back there's a whole bunch of backtracking on what's established earlier in the film several characters show up and then they go missing one girl in particular Chloe played by Jad Sinclair she has an encounter with the slender man after the rules are stated to her but her her fear she's been she's aware of the myth surrounding slender man but she still lets her fear allow her to do stupid things and then she comes in contact with the slender man apparently once you come in contact with him that's how he gets in your mind and that's how he starts damaging you and taking over and taking you over to his side or whatever he's trying to do here like I said before the film makes no sense of itself or what slender man's ultimate goal here is based on the popular 2009 meme which I'm sure it gave a lot more people which gave I'm sure that meme alone gave more people nightmares than this film ever will the film is just downright terrible there's several scenes in this film where it is so dark you can try to turn up the brightness all you want to you will not be able to see anything it's there are so many sequences where this film is so dark it's like pitch black darkness it looks so bad the visual effects like I like I made clear earlier they are terrible the acting is not even the acting isn't even acceptable it's just downright terrible acting terrible cinematography to a terrible the the only saving graces here are the disturbing images that we see come across the screen at certain points but but even that again that's not really anything all that special because this film it tries to rip off the ring this movie basically is trying to do to the internet what the ring did to VHS tapes for those of us who grew up in that era because I grew up around VHS tapes well what was left of them so I was around when the ring came out so after seeing the ring I kind of did become a bit fearful of putting in certain Disney movies but then again I was only around four or three when I saw the ring but back to this film I do not know what they were trying to do here the characters in here they're all boring and bland one girl has a boyfriend who has he does this weird there's this weird terrible looking effect of his face having some sort of seizure if you will it looks like he's struggling to let out some type of Rick flair noise that's me personally because I am a big wrestling fan it looks like he's trying to let out a very a very aggressive woo I do not know why I turned this movie on I do not know what is happening in half of it the movie is very boring it's very slow-paced the whole entire film is slow-paced and never picks itself up at all there's nothing intense here like I said before the slenderman is not a threat I do not know what is scary about this thing we do not even know what he's doing because he nothing is ever made sense none of it ever makes sense characters come and go plot devices don't get it don't get don't get fully developed characters aren't fully developed the parents are non-existent that's not really a that's really a nitpick at this point this movie is just bad in more ways than one I'm trying to not even get into any spoilers with this movie because I don't even feel it's worth it in the future I will probably do an in-depth review on the film but as far as I'm concerned right now I do not recommend this movie at all this movie is not God I don't even know it's right up there with Jeepers Creepers 3 has to be it might even be worse I I really do not know what this movie was trying to accomplish it had a lot of potential but then again when I heard that they were making a film about a 2009 meme that's been dead for almost three years I wasn't expecting much so I'm not really surprised that this turned out to be a total disaster if I were to rate this film on a scale of one to ten I'd give it a solid three and a half possibly a four just for the few sequences in the disturbing imagery that we do see of Slenderman four and a half or a solid four out of ten four out of ten for me for this Slenderman adaptation I do not recommend that you watch this film if you 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