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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 65IGNDavid GriffinIGNDavid GriffinIf the story behind this chilling internet creation could have matched the quality of those aforementioned strong points, Sony would have a real horror gem on their hands.
- 42The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerIn a movie this flat-out dull, even a tasteful lack of direct exploitation feels like a failure of nerve.
- 40Time OutTime OutGive this literally and figuratively bloodless spooker a pass.
- 40Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe movie is a big disappointment, because ultimately Slender Man does not get the full-on creep-out treatment such an intriguing character deserves. Here he's just a generic horror bad guy, doing standard horror-bad-guy things. He could be anything, really, and therefore winds up, like the movie, being not much.
- 38Chicago TribuneKatie WalshChicago TribuneKatie WalshBirke's script is plainly straightforward, a simple supernatural chase story. It doesn't plumb the depths of what might make Slender Man scary, so Slender Man isn't scary at all.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreGive White credit for the picture’s fairly eerie tone and look — darkened streets, foggy forests of spindly pines, shadows and more shadows. It’s just not worth more than the occasional hair-raising instant.
- 38RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSporadically, one can see the movie that Slender Man could have been, but it disappears like the title character’s victims.
- 30VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanSlender Man is the kind of movie in which images come before logic, because there really isn’t much logic. There’s just a movie out to goose you.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichA tasteless and incredibly undercooked serving of the internet’s stalest Creepypasta, Slender Man aspires to be for the YouTube era what “The Ring” was to the last gasps of the VHS generation...there’s one fundamental difference that sets the two movies apart: “The Ring” is good, and Slender Man is terrible.
- 20The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe most perfunctory horror picture I’ve seen in some time.